History - Heritage

The Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, is a Catholic Benedictine monastery and Read more…

Priest’s House, late medieval hall-house in a picturesque village. Built by Muchelney Abbey in 1308 for the parish priest. Interesting Read more…

Clevedon Court an outstanding 14th-century manor house and 18th-century terraced garden. Managed by the National Trust. Read more…

Dyrham Park, late 17th-century mansion, garden and deer park. Managed by the National Trust. Read more…

Montacute House is an Elizabethan (1588-1601) Ham-stone house noted for its tapestries, 16th/17th Century furniture, and Tudor and Jacobean portraits. Read more…

A 14th-century fish house at Meare was once the abode of Glastonbury Abbey fishermen, who fished the, now drained, Meare Read more…

Cleeve Abbey is a 13th centurt Cistercian monastry which boasts the most impressively complete and unaltered set of monastic cloister Read more…

Coleridge Cottage, home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge displaying of the poet’s personal mementoes. 17th-century Coleridge Cottage is managed Read more…

Barrington Court is a beautiful Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens, kitchen gardens and Tudor manor house. Managed by the National Trust. Read more…

Bath Abbey, or to give it its formal name, The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, is an Read more…

Stoke-sub-Hamdon Priory, 14th/15th-century farm buildings, formerly a priests’ residence, now managed by the National Trust and The Great Hall is Read more…

Fyne Court is a National Trust owned nature reserve and visitor centre set in parkland which was originally the pleasure Read more…