The Alton Abbey Homepage has moved to www.altonabbey.org.uk

The abbey bookshop and church

All who arrive as guests are to be welcomed like Christ, for he is going to say, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me" Rule of St Benedict 53:1

Alton Abbey is a Benedictine Monastery in the Church of England, in the beautiful Hampshire village of Beech, just outside Alton. It has been described in The Times as "the best-kept secret in the Church of England" and "the place to go when you need six weeks holiday but can only spare a day."