The George Hotel - bottom of the high street - is unusual too, not to mention the carved stonework.
When I had access to the chapel by kind permission of a key-holder, it had the largest most beautiful bible I had ever seen. Due to its hidden aspect it survived the dissolution of the monastery. At the end there's a small chapel dated same time as the abbey. On the opposite side of the road to the Abbey ruins, just down the slope from the mini-roundabout (leading to Street)lies a narrow passage way. Unfortunately, some vicious vandal cut the tree down not so long ago, but there is a Holy Thorn in the grounds of St John's Church and it does flower at Christmas.
Similar sense of spiritual peace prevails on Wearyall to that of the Tor. Next time you pay visit to Glastonbury don't miss the chance to walk on Wearyall Hill, where Joseph of Aramathea purportedly struck his staff to the ground and thence a holy thorn grew: the original one. I'm a native of Somerset, my home town being that of the ecclesiastical City of Wells. Lovely post, and of course I know Glastonbury so well.
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