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
- Glastonbury Abbey c. 1860 Frank M Good.jpg
St. Edgar's and St. Mary's Chapels, Glastonbury Abbey, c. 1860, by Frank M Good
- MS. Hatton 30 Expositio Augustini in Apocalypsin 73v.jpg
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
- Glastonbury Abbey Lady Chapel c1900.jpg
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
- Glastonbury Abbey abbot's kitchen.jpg
Exterior of Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
- Glastonbury Abbey Lady Chapel.JPG
Lady Chapel ruins at Glastonbury Abbey
- Glastonbury Abbey Retreat House.JPG
Abbey Retreat House in Glastonbury Somerset
References
- ↑ "Edmund I the Elder". English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
