Abbot's Kitchen, Glastonbury

[3] The stone-built construction dates from the 14th century and is one of a very few surviving mediaeval kitchens in the world.

It is one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe and the only substantial monastic building surviving at Glastonbury Abbey.

[6] The building is supported by curved buttresses on each side leading up to a cornice with grotesque gargoyles.

[3] The building is designed so that hot air from the cooking fires would have risen up to the top of the building and escaped, whilst cooler air came from openings lower down and sunk into the kitchen, cooling it.

[7][8] The kitchen was attached to the 80 feet (24 m) high abbot's hall, although only one small section of its wall remains.