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Malmesbury Abbey is a ruined Benedictine monastery at Malmesbury, Wiltshire. There are references to a nunnery founded around AD 603, though a more likely date for its establishment is 637 when the Irish monk Maeldulph established a hermitage at Malmesbury. The monastery itself was established sometime between 675-705 under the abbacy of Adhelm. By the 10th century, the monastery had become a house of the Benedictine order. The surviving buildings were commenced under Bishop Roger and completed around 1160-1170. The abbey was dissolved in 1539 and sold to the clothier William Stumpe, who built the present Abbey House on the site of some of the monastic buildings. He also gave the nave of the Abbey church to the people of Malmesbury as their parish church. The monastic buildings, none of which are now upstanding, stood on the north side of the church and consisted of the cloister, the chapter house and the dorter. The monument is within the council area of Wiltshire.
Historic England Scheduled Monument 1010136.

Place Type: Ecclesiastical Monument
Historic County: Wiltshire
Lat, Long: 51.585227,-2.0975195
Grid Reference: ST 9334 8737
Civil Parish: Malmesbury CP
Council Area: Wiltshire CA
Police Area: Wiltshire PA

GBPN ID: 319840
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Malmesbury_Abbey,_Wiltshire_319840

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