The history of Malmesbury Abbey is a long one and there are many tales to tell of the celebrated monastery. Founded by the Benedictines in 676, part of the abbey still survives today, over thirteen ...

To Edmund Wilkins Esqr,, High Steward of the Borough of Malmsbury, This View of MALMSBURY ABBEY is inscribed By his most obedient Servants, Thomas Hearne and William Byrne. Drawn by T. Hearne Etch'd ...

in the Middle Ages the building had a tall central spire... Malmesbury Abbey's founder, Maidulph, died in 675. At this time Aldhelm, a Saxon by birth and related to King Ine of Wessex, took over ...