David Charlesworth, OSB (born 6 October 1951) is the Abbot of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England.

[1][2] In September 1970, Charlesworth joined Buckfast Abbey and the Order of Saint Benedict as a novice.

[5] Charlesworth commissioned Torbay-based theatre-company Unleashed Productions to adapt the stories in Philip Yancey's book What's So Amazing About Grace?

[6] Charlesworth commissioned a 79-year-old nun, Mother Joanna, to paint an 18 × 26 ft acrylic mural on twenty wooden panels for the abbey's restaurant, the Grange.

[7] When the mural was unveiled in April 2014, Charlesworth called it "a monumental effort by Mother Joanna depicting the extraordinary work of a handful of monks who built the present church on the 12th century foundations in only 32 years".