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Buckfast Abbey: History, Art and Architecture (Hardcover)
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Buckfast Abbey: History, Art and Architecture (Hardcover)
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As Buckfast Abbey prepares to celebrate its millennium in 2018,
this new book chronicles the remarkable history of this famous
English abbey, today both home to a self-sufficient community of
Benedictine monks and a site that welcomes some half a million
visitors to south Devon each year. The first monastery was founded
in 1018 and absorbed into the Cistercian order in 1147, but was
dissolved during the Reformation. The site fell into disrepair, and
in the early 19th century a Gothic-style mansion was built on the
abbey ruins. A group of exiled French Benedictine monks settled at
Buckfast in 1882 and eventually decided to rebuild the medieval
abbey church themselves: the first stone was laid in 1907 and
consecration took place in 1932. In this elegant, authoritative
book, essays by a dozen distinguished historians explore, among
other subjects, the history of the abbey from its Saxon origins to
the Dissolution; the architecture of the medieval church; the abbey
site without the monks; the Benedictine revival; the rebuilding of
the abbey under the architect Frederick Walters; the abbey's silver
and metalwork; the art and architecture of the Blessed Sacrament
Chapel, built in 1968; and the recent redevelopment of the
precinct. Generously illustrated throughout with not only plans,
drawings and photographs gathered from the vast Buckfast archive
but also new images of the abbey church, the plethora of other
buildings on site and the meticulously tended grounds, Buckfast
Abbey is a fitting tribute to a unique monastery and community.
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