Tuesday 28 April 2009

Shaftesbury Abbey Project.

Shaftesbury Abbey project. Photographs of the Abbey taken from mast in the next few weeks.



Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Founded in the year 888, the abbey was the wealthiest Benedictine nunnery in England, a major pilgrimage site, and the town's central focus. The abbey was destroyed in 1539 by the order of Thomas Cromwell.

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