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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
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There is nothing of Winchcombe Abbey left to walk round. Founded about 800 as one of Mercia’s great Benedictine houses, and a pilgrimage draw thanks to the shrine of St Kenelm, it was demolished after the Dissolution and the stone carted off into the town — carved fragments turn up in walls all over Winchcombe, and a few are kept in the museum. The precinct lies buried under houses, a school and St Peter’s churchyard; the boundary walls along Abbey Terrace are the clearest thing left above ground. Come this way for Sudeley Castle and Hailes Abbey instead.
More at the National Heritage List entry
