The Abbey, Beckington

The Abbey
General information
Town or city	Beckington
Country	England
Construction started	1502

The Abbey, Beckington in Somerset, UK was built as a monastic grange and also used as a college for priests; the building was begun in 1502, but after the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became a private house. It was altered in the early 17th century with a new front and a sumptuous barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling, and also altered in the 19th century. The house was used as a school, restaurant and dance hall in 19th and 20th centuries but has now been restored as three houses: the plaster ceiling is in that known as The Abbey.

References

J. & J. Penoyre, Decorative plasterwork in the houses of Somerset, 1500-1700, 1994, pp. 58, 71

Sir N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, 1958, p. 142

External links

• http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/text.asp Somerset Historic Environment Register