Dore Abbey

A beautiful setting for an impressive medieval abbey

Spent a lovely day in Herefordshire's Golden Valley, with about an hour spent at Abbey Dore. Numerous interesting features seen including the minstrels gallery, and a number of medieval roof bosses.

Remarkably impressive church in lovely setting

This parish church is just a fragment of the original Cistercian abbey, but its great size shows just how large the original buildings were. There is lots to see here - fine architecture, later decora...

magical

We would highly recommend visiting Dore Abbey- it is beautiful- trying to imagine how it must have been in times gone by- quite a magical experience.

An interesting remains of a former Abbey, now acting as the local church.

The Abbey now is probably far less than half the original size that the French order of monks occupied centuries ago. There was even a small hospital for elderly monks and ill lay persons. Now a pari...

Very beautiful and inspiring

The Abbey is now the parish church and a fraction of its original size, but it is very beautiful. I was there for a concert and the acoustics are lovely. The Abbey now stands surrounded by fields, a...