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Malmesbury Abbey.

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Sadly all of these historic items were stolen recently. So far they haven’t found any trace of them.

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St John's Co Cathedral, Valetta, Malta. There's over 400 individual marble slabs to the senior blokes in the St John's knighthood. The floor has to be seen to be believed and the public are allowed to walk on them.

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And let's not skimp on the decoration either
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The complete cathedral is decorated in a similar manner. It really is an assault on the senses.
 
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The English chapel, but they were the poor cousins. It seems that the more cash you poured in to the church the nearer the front your chapel was and the English jobbie is at the back. Any further back and it would have been outside :eek:

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More of Malmesbury Abbey

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The wall at the end was built after Henry 8th's reformation flattened almost anything catholic. Now, only about half of the abbey is still standing. The small box set in the right hand wall above the arches was there so that a monk could watch over the atrtifacts and relics and they wouldn't get stolen by the visiting pilgrims. Nothing seems to change as the Abbey was broken into a few weeks back and some recilics were stolen. I wonder if the ghosts of the monks were watching?

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