Bayham Old Abbey TN3 8LP
Entry: Charge - unless EH members
Open: seasonal - check website
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About:
Founded over 800 years ago, Bayham Abbey was home to a community of Premonstratensian canons – ordained priests who lived according to a strict monastic rule. It was dissolved on the orders of Cardinal Wolsey in 1525 and the buildings were left to decay. In 1714 Sir John Pratt, later Lord Chief Justice of England, bought the Bayham estate, and he and his successors retained the ruined abbey as a fashionable landscape feature for their country retreat.
Today, Bayham is the best surviving example of a Premonstratensian abbey in England, and its impressive ruins show how life evolved at the monastery over 300 years.

Dogs: on leads

Parking:
Free parking for 20 cars on location

Facilities:
Gift shop
Food and drink 
Toilets 
picnic area
gardens

Notes:
Grass and gravel paths. Dower House only accessible via entrance steps. One step into the shop.

Contact:
Website: www.english-heritage.org.uk
Tel: 0370 3331181