Long on my bucket-list I finally made it after several aborted attempts. Considering the role played by Glastonbury in the promulgation of English myths the remains are desperately disappointing; virtually nothing survives of one of the greatest of Benedictine Abbeys ruthlessly destroyed after its dissolution in 1539 after the last Abbot, Richard Whiting, was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor looking down on his monastery, because he recanted his signature of the Supremacy Act acknowledging Henry VIII as the supreme head of the church in England. The first monsastic foundation at Glastonbury was at least in the early 7th century. Medieval legend claimed it was founded by Joseph of Arimathea, custodian of the Holy Grail, in the 1st Century. The abbey was endowed by successive Saxon Kings; by the time of the Conquest it was the richest abbey in England.
