A late medieval townhouse on Glastonbury's High Street that takes its name from a courtroom it may never have been
Open to visitorsan English Heritage site — check opening times and admission before you go
Despite the name, no trial is known to have been held in the stone townhouse on Glastonbury’s High Street. Built in the late 1400s, with an early Tudor bay front added a few decades on, it was mistaken by later antiquarians for a court once run by Glastonbury Abbey, which is how it came to be called the Tribunal, though it may simply have housed one of the abbey’s own officials. Upstairs holds the Glastonbury Lake Village Museum, its cases full of finds from an Iron Age settlement built out in the marshes near Godney and uncovered by an amateur archaeologist in 1892. There are staff on site and an entry charge, with opening times that shift by season, on the same street as Glastonbury’s shops and a short walk from the abbey ruins and Glastonbury Tor.
