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The Anglo-Saxon monastery<\/h3>\n
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Digital reconstruction of an early phase of the church, around 700 AD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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\"Clonmacnoise,<\/a>
Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The earliest historical evidence for the monastery at Glastonbury is from the last 30 years of the 7th century. The West Saxon kings Cenwealh (641-72), Centwine (676-85) and Ine (688-726) all granted charters confirming land grants or other privileges to the monastery, although it would have been to a community organized very differently from the later medieval abbey. King Ine built the great church dedicated to SS Peter and Paul to the east of the Old Church.<\/p>\n

Three later kings of Saxon Wessex were buried at Glastonbury: Edmund I (d. 946), Edgar I (d. 975) and Edmund II (Ironside; d. 1016). Two of these, Edmund II and Edgar, were reburied either side of King Arthur in the presbytery of the medieval church.<\/p>\n

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Figure of St Patrick in St Patrick’s Chapel Window (© Glastonbury Abbey; photograph: David Cousins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Celtic monastery?<\/h3>\n

Glastonbury’s earliest historical documents date from the late 7th century. Legendary accounts suggest a Celtic church was founded at Glastonbury. Saints Patrick and Bridget were thought to have visited in the 5th century and the abbey claimed to hold relics of them both.<\/p>\n

Relics could be things other than bones: they could be cloth or objects the saints had used or touched. This was long before the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England to Christianity (which began AD 597). Pottery imported from the Mediterranean has been found at Glastonbury, confirming settlement on the site of the abbey by around AD 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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