What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Abbey Cloisters The cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey adjoined the Abbey Church, a magnificent building dedicated in the 1318. It decayed after the dissolution of the monastery in 1539 and had been demolished by 1700. Only one arch of the cloister has survived Recorded plaque organisation: Tavistock Town Council.
The Abbey Cloisters were part of a Benedictine Abbey whose church was dedicated in 1318; the site decayed after the monastery's dissolution in 1539 and was largely demolished by 1700, leaving only one arch of the cloister intact.
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