Best of South West England
The 20 best abbeys & priories in South West England
Our curated top 20 abbeys & priories in South West England, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 62 abbeys & priories see the full abbeys & priories index for South West England.
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Cleeve Abbey
Cleeve Abbey is a medieval monastery located near the Washford River and village of Washford, in the English county of Somerset. It is a Grade I listed building and has been scheduled as an ancient mo
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Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the
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Parish Church of St Nicholas
St Nicholas' Church is a Church of England church in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. The earliest parts of the church date to the 14th century origin, with later alterations and extensions over the follo
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Buckfast Abbey
Devon
Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed b
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Church of Saint Winwaloe, Gunwalloe
Details SW 62 SE GUNWALLOE 3/29 Church of Saint Winwaloe 10.7.57 GV I Church. Circa late C15/early C16, re-roofed circa 1869/71 and restored by Sedding. Shale rubble walls with granite dressings. 3 pa
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Teignmouth Abbey
Devon
Details TEIGNMOUTH SX9474SW DAWLISH ROAD 25-1/3/121 (West side) 30/06/49 St Scholastica's Abbey (Formerly Listed as: DAWLISH ROAD (West side) No.99 St Scholastica's Abbey) II Former Benedictine nunner
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Pilton Abbey
Devon
Details BARNSTAPLE SS5534SE BULL HILL, Pilton 684-1/2/321 (South side) 31/12/73 Pilton Abbey GV II House. c1840s, probably with an earlier core. Mass wall construction, rendered; one stone rubble elev
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West Pennard Court Barn
West Pennard Court Barn (which is also known as the Court Barn, West Bradley) is a late 14th or early 15th century tithe barn which was built for Glastonbury Abbey. The Grade I listed building is betw
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Great Coxwell Barn
Oxfordshire
Great Coxwell Barn is a Medieval tithe barn at Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), England. It is on the northern edge of the village of Great Coxwell, which is about 9 miles (14 km) nort
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Priory of St. Andrews of the Ards
Priory of St. Andrews of the Ards — monastery in Stogursey, Somerset West and Taunton, England, UK.
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Stoke sub Hamdon Priory
Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is a complex of buildings and ruins which initially formed a 14th-century college for the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, and later was the site of a farm in Stoke-sub-Hamdon, S
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Muchelney Abbey
Muchelney Abbey is an English Heritage property in the village of Muchelney in the Somerset Levels, England. The site consists of ruined walls showing the layout of the abbey buildings constructed fro
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Abbotsbury Abbey
Abbotsbury Abbey, dedicated to Saint Peter, was a Benedictine monastery in the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. The abbey was founded in the 11th century by King Cnut's thegn Orc and his wife
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Church of St Willow
St Wyllow's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall, England. The building has Norman origins and was largely rebuilt in the late 14th and 15th centuries in the Perpen
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Church of St Andrew
Devon
St Andrew's Church in Bere Ferrers, Devon, is a parish church in the Church of England The church contains the oldest stained-glass window in Devon (excluding Exeter Cathedral), dated at 600 years old
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Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Devon
St Peter's Church is the parish church of the town of Barnstaple in North Devon, England. Parts of the church date to the 13th-century with much restoration during the Victorian era by George Gilbert
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Sacred Heart Church, Exeter
Devon
Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Exeter, Devon, England. It is a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth. It was built from 1883 to 1884 and designed by Leonard Stokes.
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Forde Abbey
Forde Abbey is a privately owned former Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England. The house and gardens are run as a tourist attraction while the 1,600-acre (650 ha) estate is farmed to provide additio
