Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey is in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. It was King Ine of Wessex who decided to build Glastonbury Abbey and out of stone. King Edmund I of England was buried at the Abbey in 946 AD.[1] It is said to be the burial place of King Arthur.
Glastonbury Abbey Media
St. Edgar's and St. Mary's Chapels, Glastonbury Abbey, c. 1860, by Frank M Good
One of the earliest surviving manuscripts, now at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, telling that Dunstan the abbot gave orders for the writing of this book
Photochrom image taken around 1900, showing the unrestored interior of the Lady Chapel
Site of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's purported tomb beneath the high altar
Exterior of Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
Lady Chapel ruins at Glastonbury Abbey
Abbey Retreat House in Glastonbury Somerset
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References
- ↑ "Edmund I the Elder". English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
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