Glastonbury Abbey
GLASTONBURY ABBEY, MAGDALENE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345447
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- GLASTONBURY ABBEY, MAGDALENE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345447
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLASTONBURY ABBEY, MAGDALENE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GLASTONBURY ABBEY, MAGDALENE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Glastonbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50058 38781
Details
MAGDALENE STREET 1. 1133 (East Side) Glastonbury Abbey ST 4938 7/1 21.6.50. ST 5138 8/1 GV 2. By tradition the most venerable monastic foundation in England, established on the legendary site of Joseph of Arimathea's oratory. Also believed to contain the burial place of King Arthur. The site was occupied by an important pre-Conquest monastery associated with St Dunstan. Standing remains belong to the great abbey church rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1184. The most complete survival from this church is the richly detailed St Mary's Chapel on a crypt at west end. The tall fragments of the east crossing piers with adjoining transept walls and chapels are the most prominent survivals of the late C12 church. Other substantial remains include portions of the outer walls of late C12 chancel aisles and C14 retrochoir, 3 bays of south nave aisle wall, lower parts of the west front and the Galilee (with crypt) linked to St Mary's Chapel. The only standing remains of the monastic buildings are the Abbot's itchen (see separate entry) and an important fragment of the Abbot's great hall to north of the kitchen. Church of England Property. The whole monastic area is scheduled as Ancient Monument. All the listed buildings in the Abbey grounds form an extremely important group.
Listing NGR: ST5001238836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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