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St. Edgar's and St. Mary's Chapels, Glastonbury Abbey, c. 1860, by Frank M Good Suggestions that Glastonbury may have been a site of religious importance in Celtic or pre-Celtic times are considered dubious by the historian Ronald Hutton, [1] but archaeological investigations by the University of Reading have demonstrated Roman and Saxon occupation of the site.
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The abbey over which Whiting presided was one of the richest and most influential in England. About one hundred monks lived in the enclosed monastery, where the sons of the nobility and gentry were educated before going on to university. [4] As Abbot of Glastonbury, Whiting was a peer of the realm and administrator of vast estates.
Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard. St. Joseph's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Spencer.
The kitchen was part of the opulent abbot's house, begun under Abbot John de Breynton (1334–1342). It is one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe and the only substantial monastic building surviving at Glastonbury Abbey. [5] The abbot's kitchen has been the only building at Glastonbury Abbey to survive intact.
The church sits along Magdalene Street facing the medieval Abbot's Kitchen across the road in Glastonbury Abbey. On the same site once stood the original Catholic church in an old converted stable, which was pulled down in 1938. [2] Behind the church there was once the St Louis Convent school, which operated from 1925 until 1984. [3]
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries.The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
The chapel was built by Abbot Richard Bere who was well known for being a master builder in his time. Construction started in 1512 and was finished five years later. It originally sat next to St. Patrick's Almshouses for women, which were demolished during the Suppression of the Monasteries along with most of Glastonbury Abbey around 1539 after the execution of the last Abbot, Richard Whiting.