Tavistock Abbey, Devon UK
N 50° 32.939 W 004° 08.714
30U E 418863 N 5600298
A ruin of an Abbey in Tavistock.
Waymark Code: WM2AWY
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/05/2007
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Only small parts of the old abbey are visible, as the modern day town has been built up where the abbey used to be, in the centre of Tavistock.
Abbey Chapel N 50° 32.952 W 004° 08.662
Originally part of the Tavistock Abbey, this was the site of the Abbot’s Hall. Since 1691, when it became a Presbyterian meeting house, it has housed nonconformist congregations.
The Cloisters N 50° 32.966 W 004° 08.703
The cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey adjoining the Abbey Church, a magnificent building dedicated in 1318, it decayed after the dissolution of the monastery in 1539 and was demolished by 1700. Only one arch of the cloister has survived.
Betsy Grimbal’s Tower N 50° 32.939 W 004° 08.714
The West Gate, one of the entrances of Tavistock Abbey, dates from the fifteenth century.
Its popular name is probably a corruption of Blessed Grimbold a ninth century saint revered by the Benedictines.
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