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 Glastonbury, the Abbey 1896 (ref. 38376) | A closer view of the transept. A seat has appeared in the intervening six years since 23910 was taken - it and the steps beside it have gone today, the latter replaced by a shallow bank of earth as before, and now gone. Comparison of this view with that seen today shows that some features have been restored inside the arch of the second sto- rey of the left-hand wall. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Glastonbury, the Abbey, St Joseph's Chapel 1927 (ref. 80569) | The Lady Chapel is also known as St Mary's Chapel, and just to confuse matters further it is popularly known as St Joseph's Chapel - 'Joseph' being Joseph of Arimathea who was said in legend to have visited Glastonbury, rather than Joseph the husband of Mary. In fact, it is thought that St Joseph's Chapel may have been the chapel in the crypt below the Lady Chapel. This crypt was constructed around 1500 when Richard Bere was Abbot. A record of 1724 states that the crypt was constantly full of water, then it was cleared in 1825. This photograph is a good general view of the chapel looking from the north-west. Not much has changed since the photo- graph was taken, although some of the trees and vegetation has been removed. There is a date of 1909 on some of the stonework of the right-hand corner, a record of the year in which this stone was reconstructed. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Glastonbury, Abbey, the Lady Chapel c1960 (ref. G12056) | Taken from a position further back than 80576 (note the arches probably added in the 19th century that have since been removed). The site is greatly improved, with a gravel surface and better props around the altar site. Today an actual altar is set here, surrounded by benches. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Glastonbury, the Abbey, Abbots Kitchen 1927 (ref. 80580) | Exhibits in display cases have now appeared, and a collection of stone sculptural fragments is piled here and there. There is now a central table, and a wooden door has appeared in the south doorway. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Glastonbury, the Cross c1955 (ref. G12029) | View from just into North Load Street. The railings have now gone, but the stone steps survive. The property on the right calls itself The Abbey Gate and claims to be a '14th-century restaurant' while offering home-made cakes and pastries. It is actually next to the 14th- century Abbey Gate, which is not believed to have ever served food. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Glastonbury, the Tribunal 1886 (ref. 19009) | Nearby, just into the High Street, there is another building of similar antiquity, the Tribunal. It dates from the early 15th century and is so- called because it was thought to be the courthouse of the Abbots. In fact the earliest use of the name was only in 1791 and the place is now considered to have begun merely as the house of a wealthy local merchant. It was later used by the infamous Judge Jeffreys when he was trying support- ers of the Duke of Monmouth after the failure of the Duke's rebellion. The origi- nal timber front was replaced with stone around 1500. This is an interesting pre- Museum shot, with the building showing signs of dereliction in the windows and roof. The emblems over the door are the Tudor Rose and the Tudor Royal Arms. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Glastonbury, High Street 1909 (ref. 61542) | A view that has changed more than in the previous two. The two 18th century buildings on the left are still there, as is the smaller one beyond. The next one, however, has been replaced by the junction with The Archers Way. Then, the tall building belonging to Brooks & Sons the Drapers, who boast of being established in 1831, has been replaced by the Post Office, which has a datestone GR 1938. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Glastonbury, Wearyall Hill 1896 (ref. 38384) | Now around to the south-west side of Glastonbury, where Wearyall Hill lies between the town and the river Brue. The name is a corruption of 'Wirral Hill', a deer-park established by the Abbots. This view, from the north, is across country- side, whereas today the foreground is occupied by housing and an industrial estate. The Glastonbury Thorn on the hilltop left of the wood is missing from the photograph. Although this is said to be the original Thorn, the photograph shows how it needs to be re-grafted every century or so. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Pilton, Tithe Barn c1955 (ref. P383014) | To reach our final village, Pilton, we must leave our straight route at East Pennard and travel almost due north for a couple of miles or so. Pilton is a large but quite dispersed village beside the Glastonbury to Shepton Mallet road, and we are now some six miles from the former. The parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, developed from the Norman period onward through the Middle Ages, and is down in a dip at the junction of several streets. The church has an attractive Norman south door, with corbels with heads of a bish- op and two angels inside the porch. Inside there is an Easter sepulchre, and the nave and north aisle have Somerset-style timber tie-beam roofs with carvings of angels. Next to the church there is the manor house. It was established in the 13th century as a residence of the Abbots of Glastonbury and added to by them for the next couple of hundred years. After the Dissolution, it passed into private hands and what we see today from the outside is the result of various alterations made during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including some by one of the Earls of Hereford who owned the place in the 17th century. In the yard at the back there is a rare survival, a dovecote dating from the 13th or 14th century. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Street, the Clock Tower 1896 (ref. 38388) | An intriguing photograph - are the men beside the pile of stones carrying out repairs or new construc- tion? It looks as though they may be finishing work on the wall in the foreground, perhaps linked to the new frontage for the main building constructed around this time. The wall was probably demolished when the factory was extended in 1933. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
