Sherborne Abbey

In the year 705 St Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury and newly consecrated as first Bishop of the West Saxons, chose Sherborne as the site of his new cathedral. The church he built served 26 succeeding Saxon bishops, but soon after the Norman Conquest the See was moved to Old Sarum and later to Salisbury. Since 998 Sherborne had been home to a flourishing community of Benedictine monks and the former cathedral now became their Abbey Church. It was the monks who carried out a major rebuilding in the 15th century and gave the Abbey one of its chief glories, the earliest great fan-vaulted roof in Europe

Address:

Abbey Close
Sherborne
Dorset
DT9 3LQ

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