St Benet's Abbey, Norfolk

St Benet's Abbey is a ruined mediæval monastery near Horning, Norfolk. By tradition, the monastery's origins start around AD 800 when a small company of Saxon monks led by Suneman erected a chapel dedicated to St Benedict at the junction of the Rivers Bure and Thurne. This was destroyed by the Danes in 870. Wulfric established another community and chapel around 960. King Cnut endowed further lands and founded the Benedictine Abbey in 1019. Although St Benet’s Abbey was the only religious house in England not to be dissolved by Henry VIII, William Reppes, Bishop of Norwich, stripped the site anyway, the last monk left around 1540. The abbey and its demesne lands were thereafter let out to farm, and the precinct was plundered for building materials. The best preserved part of the abbey is the gatehouse. The monument is within the council area of North Norfolk (Norfolk).
Historic England Scheduled Monument 1003149.

Place Type: Ecclesiastical Monument
Historic County: Norfolk
Lat, Long: 52.687825,1.5186629
Grid Reference: TG 3790 1582
Civil Parish: Horning CP
Council Area: North Norfolk CA (Norfolk CA)
Police Area: Norfolk PA

GBPN ID: 304513
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/St_Benet's_Abbey,_Norfolk_304513

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