Worth Abbey
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Overview
Worth Abbey may be familiar to TV viewers, for it featured in a BBC series called The Monastery, in 2005, and again in The Big Silence, in 2010. It was founded by monks from Downside Abbey in Somerset, and today a community of some 25 Benedictine monks lives and works here. The modern, circular abbey church, designed by Francis Pollen and completed in 2001, is the only part open to the public on a daily basis. In 2011 this reopened with freshly designed interior furnishings by Thomas Heatherwick, including curved, fixed pews.
Features
- Opening Times
- Open all year
- Opening Times: Open daily at all reasonable times
- Facilities
- Parking onsite
- Children
About the area
Divided from East Sussex back in 1888, West Sussex has a variety of landscapes and coastal scenery, but it is the spacious and open South Downs with which the county is most closely associated. There are plenty of walking routes in the South Downs National Park, cycling routes by the sea or visitors can explore the pretty town of Arundel with its historic castle and buildings.
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