Drawn to Glastonbury

Abstract

Here if anywhere resides the religious soul of England. It breathes across the time-washed landscape and invokes its energy through the carefully arranged geomantic monuments of earth and stone. The revolutionary revival of Albion’s true spirit will be the precursor of a New Age and that apocalyptic revival will spring from the eternally universal fountainhead that is Glastonbury. (Anthony Roberts, Glastonbury: Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem , 1978: 12) Glastonbury, a town of some 7500 inhabitants in the South West of England, is a holy or special place which has attracted pilgrims and tourists for centuries. Popular tradition has linked Glastonbury with King Arthur, Joseph of Arimathea and even Jesus himself. There is a belief that it is the ‘cradle of English Christianity’, where Joseph founded a church. Numerous saints are said to have visited, attracted by Glastonbury’s reputation, and they in turn have added to its appeal. Glastonbury has been identified with Avalon, where King Arthur was taken after his last battle, and in 1190 it was claimed that the remains of Arthur and his queen Guenevere had been found in the ancient burial ground of the Abbey. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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