Monastery · England · Still standing
Buckfast Abbey
Buckfast Abbey is an active Benedictine monastery near Buckfastleigh in Devon, England. The present abbey church was built mainly between 1906 and 1938 on the footprint of the medieval Cistercian church and is a large cruciform stone church with associated monastic ranges within a walled precinct.
First raised
1001
Its prime
1938
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1938
What Buckfast Abbey looked like in its prime.
A long cruciform stone church of pale grey masonry with warm buff sandstone dressings; low pitched green copper roofs run along nave and aisles. The long nave has round‑arched clerestory openings and a visible triforium; the massive square central tower rises above the crossing with paired arched belfry openings, battlemented top and small corner pinnacles. The west front shows a deep recessed arched doorway beneath a round oculus; domestic ranges and a medieval abbot's tower sit to the side within a walled precinct.
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12 places to explore in 1938.
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