• Glastonbury Abbey, the oldest in England, was once one of the country's largest, wealthiest, and most influential monasteries.
  • Glastonbury Abbey became so rich due to the increase of visitors that by the 14th century it was second only to Westminster Abbey in terms of wealth.
  • There are few places where history and mythology, beauty and tragedy, dissolution and rebirth, meet so powerfully as in Glastonbury Abbey.
  • Glastonbury Abbey. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06579a.htm.
  • Glastonbury Abbey is a ruined abbey located in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. The abbey was founded in the 7th century AD, and enlarged in the 10th century.
  • Glastonbury Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey near Glastonbury in the county of Somerset, England south of Wells.
  • Glastonbury Abbey is located in the centre of Glastonbury and can be reached by taking Junction 23 off the M5 and following the signs into the town.
  • The scattered ruins of Glastonbury Abbey give little hint that this was once one of England's great seats of ecclesiastical power.
  • Glastonbury Abbey. Glastonbury Abbey is connected with legend to a degree that is unparalleled by any other abbey in England.