Qualla: Buckfast Abbey https://qualla.com/buckfast-abbey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Buckfast Abbey https://qualla.com/buckfast-abbey Buckfast Abbey: Introduction https://qualla.com/buckfast-abbey/ Six Benedictine monks arrived at Buckfast on 28 October 1882. They were French, refugees of the anti-clerical laws sweeping through their own country, and they had come to a Devon riverbank where an English abbey once stood. What they found was largely rubble. The church and cloister had been pulled down after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1539. The site had been used as a stone quarry for 300 years. The Victorian country house standing on it would have to be remodelled. The men were not architects. They had limited funds. They started building anyway. The abbey church they finished in 1938 - 56 years and several generations of monks later - stands today exactly where the medieval one stood. They built almost all of it themselves, by hand.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/buckfast-abbey-wp/gbvr-buckfast-abbey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Buckfast Abbey: A Thousand Years Beside the Dart https://qualla.com/buckfast-abbey/ The first abbey at Buckfast was founded in 1018, possibly by Aethelweard, Earl of Devon, as a Benedictine monastery on the bank of the River Dart where it flows out of Dartmoor. The community changed hands and orders over the centuries - it became Savignac in the 12th century, th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/buckfast-abbey-wp/gbvr-buckfast-abbey-a-thousand-years-beside-the-dart.mp3 0:06 2 full Buckfast Abbey: Monks With Pickaxes https://qualla.com/buckfast-abbey/ The six French Benedictines who arrived in 1882 took possession of the site and the Victorian country house that had been built on it. They reinstated monastic life almost immediately. They had no money for professional builders, and in any case were trying to rebuild the abbey t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/r/buckfast-abbey-wp/gbvr-buckfast-abbey-monks-with-pickaxes.mp3 0:06 3 full Buckfast Abbey: Bees, Wine, and a Trumpet on the Wall https://qualla.com/buckfast-abbey/ Buckfast supports itself. The abbey has a farm where the monks keep pigs and cattle, grow vegetables, and run a kitchen garden. They sell honey, beeswax, fudge, and pottery in a shop. They run a restaurant called the Grange in the precinct. Their most successful and most controve...

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