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Very little remains today of the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul at Shrewsbury. Built in 1083, it had a very large church (of which only part remains), plus a typical layout of cloister and monastic buildings. It is calculated that the cloister was 104 feet square and the refectory had a breadth of 38 feet.

Shrewsbury Abbey was granted large amounts of land, both arable and woodland, in the surrounding countryside, from which it obtained rents and taxes.

Sadly a major road was built straight through the Abbey site before any detailed modern excavations could be carried out, so much of the layout of the monastic buildings has been lost forever. In her "Cadfael" novels, the writer Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters) published maps showing a suggested layout of the site - although guesswork, these maps may be fairly accurate.

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