Shaftesbury Abbey

Shaftesbury Abbey - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monastery
date from: c. 888

Source: en.wikipedia.org