- 2024 marks 1100 years since King Athelstan became King in England! He was closely associated with Malmesbury Abbey and was buried at the site in 941 AD.
- Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
- Malmesbury Abbey is a place that I could visit again and again.
- Malmesbury Abbey owned 23,000 acres (93 km²) when was closed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 by Henry VIII.
- Malmesbury Abbey is one of the oldest and most important religious sites in England, with a history going back to at least the 7th century.
- Founded in the 7C, the abbey has links with many characters from its history including St Aldhelm (639-709), one of its first abbots...
- Perched on a small grassy mound, in the middle of a farm yard, on the outskirts of Malmesbury sits the tiniest church, in service, in Britain.
- Malmesbury is best depicted by the Abbey and the Athelstan Museum. Malmesbury is a market town in Wiltshire, southern England.
- At the dissolution of the monasteries (1536–39) during the Reformation, the abbey was purchased by a wealthy clothier, who set up…
- The definitive description of Malmesbury abbey was published by Harold Brakspear as long ago as 1912 in Archaeologia LXIV.