Cirencester Anglo-Saxon Church and Medieval Abbey

Cirencester Excavations IV. The excavations of an Anglo-Saxon Church and medieval Abbey on the site of the Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Cirencester.

This volume details the excavations on the site of the Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Cirencester, which were directed by David Brown (1965–6), Dr Alan McWhirr (1965), and Professor John Wacher (1964), for the Cirencester Excavation Committee, on behalf of the then Ministry of Public Building and Works. Development proposals threatened a large part of the open space surrounding Abbey House, which stood in 41 acres (16.4 hectares) of landscaped parkland, stretching from the centre of the town to the River Churn on the east. In the event, planning permission was withdrawn, with only minimal housing allowed on the site of Abbey House (demolished in 1964) and around the periphery of the park, the greater part of which remains as a public open space, the Abbey Grounds, in the care of Cirencester Town Council.