More information : (ST 42852484 Abbot's House sited from description and photograph of NAR ST 42 SW 7 and OS 1:2500 1976)
Abbot's House, the Abbey lodgings, incorporating fragments of the south cloister walk and west wall of the refectory. 14th-15th century. Complex plan representing the south west corner of the abbey buildings. After the Dissolution, the Abbot's House became a farmhouse, passing into Guardianship in 1927 (HBMC Guardianship No. 429)
Scheduled Ancient Monument No. Somerset 41, Grade I. Forms part of Muchelney Abbey (NAR ST 42 SW 7) (1-2)
The building was described in 1547 as of three roofs, namely a hall, kitchen, larder-house and buttery with a chamber over the hall, and `beyond and by the sides thereof' three other chambers. (3)
Addtional source. (4)
The wall paintings forming a decorative scheme in the Abbot's Lodgings date to the period immediately before the Reformation 1520-1530. Conservation work on the wall paintings was carried out on behalf of English Heritage, the results were reported in 2004. (5) |