Glastonbury Church Destroyed by Earthquake

On this day, the south of Great Britain was hit by a violent earthquake whose epicentre is believed to have been in the area around Portsmouth or Chichester. The earthquake was felt in London, Canterbury and south Wales and caused the destruction of many houses and churches including the 11th-century timber Church of St Michael on the top of Glastonbury Tor. In the 14th century, a second church, also dedicated to St Michael, was built of local sandstone by the Abbot Adam of Sodbury, incorporating the foundations of the previous building. It included stained glass and decorated floor tiles. This church survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when it was demolished except for the tower where the last Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Richard Whiting, was hung, drawn and quartered along with two of his monks.

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