... in the Medieval hall at Buckfast , where amid formal academic robes and speeches, the Bishop of Plymouth presented certificates gained at the School of the Annunciation. . Guest lecture by Francis Campbell, vice-chancellor of St Mary's University, Twickenham. A magnificent academic Mass in the great Abbey Church - wonderful music - and then a grand Lunch in the Grange...
The Abbey will be a thousand years old in 2018. Destroyed under Henry VIII, rebuilt and flourishing...as the ceremonies were taking place in the Medieval Hall, the magnificent bells were ringing out glorious peals. It was a wonderful day, and it was hard to leave...
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