The Glastonbury Connection

Tithe barns were built to hold the crops due to the abbey including those at Doulting , [52] Mells [53] [54] and Pilton.

At the start of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in , there were over monasteries, nunneries and friaries in England. By , there were none. More than 15, monks and nuns had been dispersed and the buildings had been seized by the Crown to be sold off or leased to new lay occupiers. Glastonbury Abbey was reviewed as having significant amounts of silver and gold as well as its attached lands. The abbey was stripped of its valuables [58] and Abbot Richard Whiting Whyting , who had been a signatory to the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII the head of the church, resisted and was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor on 15 November After the Dissolution, two of the abbey's manors in Wiltshire were sold by the Crown to John Thynne and thereafter descended in his family, who much later became Marquesses of Bath.

The Thynnes have preserved many of the abbey's Wiltshire records at Longleat up to the present day. When Seymour was attainted in , the abbey site reverted to the crown, but the weavers remained until they were removed in the reign of Queen Mary. In Elizabeth I of England granted the site to Peter Carew , and it remained in private ownership until the beginning of the 20th century. Further stones were removed in the 17th century, so that by the beginning of the 18th century the abbey was described as a ruin.

The only building to survive intact is the Abbot's Kitchen , which served as a Quaker meeting house. Early in the 19th century, gunpowder was used to dislodge further stones and the site became a quarry. The Ancient Monuments Protection Act stopped further damage to the site and led to the first historical and archaeological surveys. The ruins are now the property of and managed by the Glastonbury Abbey trust. On acquiring the site the trust appointed Frederick Bligh Bond to direct an archaeological investigation.

Bond discovered the Edgar Chapel, North Porch and St Dunstan's Chapel, however relations with his employers turned sour when he revealed in his book, The Gates of Remembrance , that he had made many of his interpretations in collaboration with a psychic medium. A pilgrimage to the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey was held by a few local churches in The ruins of the great church, along with the Lady Chapel, are grade I listed buildings , [68] and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

It is approached by the abbey gatehouse, which was built in the mid 14th century and completely restored in There is also surviving stonework from the south nave aisle wall, west front and the Galilee along with its crypt linked to St Mary's Chapel.

The Abbot's Kitchen is described as "one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe". Inside are four large arched fireplaces with smoke outlets above them, with another outlet in the centre of the pyramidal roof. The analysis of the 20th-century archaeological investigations have recently been published along with the results of a new geophysical survey.

The abbey library was described by John Leland , King Henry VIII's antiquary who visited it, as containing unique copies of ancient histories of England and unique early Christian documents. It seems to have been affected by the fire of , but still housed a remarkable collection until when it was dispersed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Within the abbey wall, is Abbey House, which was used by the Diocese of Bath and Wells as a retreat house until It is now occasionally open to the public for special events and provides additional administration space for the Abbey.

A specimen of common hawthorn found at Glastonbury, first mentioned in an early sixteenth century anonymous metrical Lyfe of Joseph of Arimathea, was unusual in that it flowered twice in a year, once as normal on "old wood" in spring, and once on "new wood" the current season's matured new growth in the winter. The blossom sent to the Queen now comes from one of these.

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Sufism has been long established in Glastonbury. Zikrs are held weekly in private homes, and on the first Sunday of every month a zikr is held at St Margaret's Chapel in Magdalene Street. A Sufi charity shop was established in Glastonbury in , and supports missionary work in Africa. This shop was opened after Sheikh Nazim came to Glastonbury to visit the Abbey. It is from here that the spiritual new age will begin and to here that Jesus will return". The Glastonbury Order of Druids was formed on Mayday The local football team is Glastonbury Town F.

The town is on the route of the Samaritans Way South West. It is also a setting in the Warlord Chronicles , a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell. The Children's World charity grew out of the festival and is based in the town.

It is known internationally as Children's World International. It was set up by Arabella Churchill in to provide drama participation and creative play and to work creatively in educational settings, providing social and emotional benefits for all children, particularly those with special needs.

They also run the Glastonbury Children's Festival each August. Glastonbury is one of the venues for the annual West Country Carnival. Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community where communities have grown up to include people with New Age beliefs. The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from to The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Lawrence Buckley.

The more recent Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts , founded in , is now the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world.

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Although it is named for Glastonbury, it is held at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle , 6 miles 9. For , the enclosed area of the festival was over acres 3.

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In , over acts played on over 80 stages [] and the capacity expanded by 20, to , Glastonbury has been the birthplace or home to many notable people. Peter King, 1st Baron King was the recorder of Glastonbury in The religious connections and mythology of the town have also attracted several authors. Frederick Bligh Bond , archaeologist and writer. Her subsequent instructions from the "voice" directed her to take on Sheena Govan as her spiritual teacher, [] [] [] [] and became a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community.

Sally Morningstar , a Wiccan High Priestess and the author of at least twenty-six books on magic , astrology , Ayurveda , Wicca , divination and spirituality teaches Hedge Witchcraft and Natural Magic in Glastonbury, [] and lives in Somerset. Popular entertainment and literature is also represented amongst the population.

Rutland Boughton moved from Birmingham to Glastonbury in and established the country's first national annual summer school of music. Athletes and sports players have also been resident. Cricketers born in the town include Cyril Baily in , [] George Burrough in , [] and Eustace Bisgood in Glastonbury is twinned with:.

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