Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh in Devon. Buckfast 1st became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed by a Savignac abbey constructed on the site of the current abbey in 1134. The monastery was surrendered for dissolution in 1539, with the monastic buildings stripped and left as ruins, before being finally demolished. The former abbey site was used as a quarry, and later a Gothic mansion house.
In 1882 the site was purchased by a group of French Benedictine monks, who founded a new a monastery on the site, dedicated to Saint Mary. Buckfast was formally reinstated as an Abbey in 1902.
Buckfast Abbey
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