Malmesbury, Abbey House, Wiltshire

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Location

(51°35′4″N, 2°5′53″W)

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Site Location

Malmesbury, Abbey House

National Grid Reference

ST 933 873

Boundaries

pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire

Diocese

medieval Sherborne (to 1075); Old Sarum (to 1220); Salisbury
now Bristol

Type of building/monument

House

Report authors

Allan Brodie

Visit Date

12 October 1991, 1 May 2004

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Feature Sets

Loose Sculpture

Description

Malmesbury Abbey House is a mid 16thc, half H-shaped house built on top of a late 13thc vaulted undercroft. Within the gardens there are various reused mid-12thc stones from the adjacent Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury, which is only 50 metres away.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Bibliography

Historic England listing 1269325

Report in National Monuments, Record 86404.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth 1975, 2nd edition, 321-327.

Victoria County History: Wiltshire, vol. XIV, 133-134.