MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE
ENGLAND: MALMSBURY ABBEY
Location
Adapted from Shepherd, Plate 97
Floorplan
Preliminary Notes
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Benedictine monks replaced secular clergy ca 965. (Knowles
and Hadcock, 70)
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Monestery Pillaged by the Danes, ca 1010 (Knowles
and Hadcock, 70)
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Present church begun ca 1145
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Nave and south porch ca 1160
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Current building is partually preserved (Nave and West Front) and partially
in ruins
Choose one of the following::
Preliminary Bibliography
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942.
The ruined abbeys of Great Britain, by Ralph Adams Cram ...
Boston, Mass., Marshall Jones Company [c1927]
LC Call Number:
NA963 C88
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Last updated by JV 07/99