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Buckfast Abbey : history, art and architecture

Title
Buckfast Abbey : history, art and architecture / edited by Peter Beacham.
Publication
  • London ; New York : Merrell, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Beacham, Peter
Description
270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans (chiefly color); 32 cm
Summary
As Buckfast Abbey prepares to celebrate its millennium in 2018, this new book chronicles the remarkable history of this famous English abbey, today both home to a self-sufficient community of Benedictine monks and a site that welcomes some half a million visitors to south Devon each year. The first monastery was founded in 1018 and absorbed into the Cistercian order in 1147, but was dissolved during the Reformation. The site fell into disrepair, and in the early 19th century a Gothic-style mansion was built on the abbey ruins. A group of exiled French Benedictine monks settled at Buckfast in 1882 and eventually decided to rebuild the medieval abbey church themselves: the first stone was laid in 1907 and consecration took place in 1932.0.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.
Contents
The history of the abbey, 1018-1539 / Nicholas Orme -- The architecture of the medieval Cistercian church and cloister / David Robinson -- The medieval inner and outer courts / Steward Brown -- The tiles of the abbey / John Cherry -- The seals of the abbey / John Cherry -- Picturesque antiquity: the abbey site without the monks / Bridget Cherry -- The Benedictine revival: roots and branches. Buckfast and the monastic world, 1815-2018 / Dom Aidan Bellenger -- F.A. Walters FSA, archaeologist and architect, and the recreation of the monastic past / Roderick O'Donnell -- The sacred silver and other metalwork / Marian Campbell -- Buckfast School / Alan Powers -- St Anthony's: self-sufficiency in the twentieth-century abbey / Steward Brown -- Modern medievalism: Dom Charles Norris, Dalle de Verre and the Blessed Sacrament Chapel / Robert Proctor -- The making of the precinct / Peter Beacham.
ISBN
  • 1858946506
  • 9781858946504
OCLC
  • ocn956750126
  • 956750126
  • SCSB-8961059
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries