Abbey
Chronology
43 Roman
Invasion of
63
Traditional Building of The
Possible
foundation of the first Christian community at
410 Romans
leave
443 Probable
Visit of St. Patrick
449 Coming of
the Angles, Saxons and Jutes to
540 Carbon
date for the occupation levels on
600 Carbon
date for the Vallum Monasterii
664 The Synod
of
712 First
stone church built by King Ine
836 Viking
raids in Southwest
843 King
Alfred burns the cakes at Athelney
940 Ine's church is lengthened by Dunstan
who also builds the Cloisters
Dunstan is Abbot
967 King
Edmund is buried in the Abbey
963 to 973 Dunstan is made Archbishop of
975 King
Edgar the Peaceable is buried in the Abbey
988 Dunstan dies and is buried in
1066
1077 Stone
church is demolished and replaced by a larger Norman church by Abbot Thurstin.
Abbot Thurstin is dismissed after his soldiers kill monks by the
High Altar.
1096 First
Crusade to the
1100 to 1118
Abbot Herlewin demolishes the Norman church and builds another on
a grander scale
Abbot Herlewin
1125
The
Cloisters,
Abbot Henry
of
William of Malmesbury completes his history of the Abbey, "De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie"
Martydom of Thomas a Becket at
1184 Great
fire destroys the Abbey including the
1186 The Lady
Chapel is consecrated on the site of the
King Henry II
puts his chancellor, Ralph Fitzstephen in charge of
rebuilding the monastery
1189 Work
starts on building the East end of the
Third Crusade
to the
1191 King
Arthur and Guinevere's tombs reputedly found in the cemetery
1195 Start of
a 24 year feud between the Abbey and the Bishop of
1213 The
1215 King
John signs the Magna Carta
1274 to 1291
The Choir of
the
Abbot John of
Visit to the
Abbey by King Edward I and Queen Eleanor to attend reburial of King Arthur's
bones in front of the High Altar.
1323 to 1331
Lodgings for
8 secular priests are built to the North of the Lady Chapel
Abbot Adam of
Sodbury
1337 The
start of the 100 Years War between
1342 to 1348
The Choir of
the
Abbot Walter
of Monington
The Black
Death kills one third of the population of
1375 to 1415
The Cloisters
are rebuilt
Abbot John Chinnock
The
Archbishop of
Chaucer
writes "The
The
1420 to 1456
The Abbot's
Kitchen is built, as are the Bishop's Quarters and the wall around the Abbey
precinct
Abbot
Nicholas Frome
Joan of Arc
is burned at the stake as a heretic
1455 to 1492
Abbot John Selwood rebuilds the
The Wars of
the Roses
1493 to 1524
St. Patrick's
Almshouses are built north of the Lady Chapel.
Edgar Chapel and
Loretto Chapel are built
Abbot Richard
Beere
King Henry
VII visits the Abbey
Martin Luther
challenges the sale of indulgences, an act seen as the start of the Reformation
1534 to 1538
Abbot Richard
Whiting
Abbot Whiting
signs the Act of Supremacy
Act of
Supremacy is passed
First Act of Supression is passed
The Second
Act of Supression is passed
1539 The
Dissolution of
1539 The
Abbey buildings are ransacked and all valuables sold or removed to the King's
treasury.
Abbot Whiting
is hanged on
1560 A colony
of weavers is established on the Abbey site
1908
Consolidation and repair of the ruined Abbey begins.
The Abbey ruins are purchased by the
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