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Shaftesbury Abbey
 Shaftesbury Abbey ruins | |
  Location within Dorset | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | c. 888 |
| Disestablished | 1539 |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | King Alfred the Great |
| Site | |
| Location | Shaftesbury, Dorset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°00′19″N 2°11′55″W / 51.0053°N 2.1986°W |
Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. At the time it was the second-wealthiest nunnery in England, behind only Syon Abbey.[1]
- ^ William Page & J. Horace Round, ed. (1907). 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Barking', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2. pp. 115–122.
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