Wytham Abbey

[1][2][3][4] The Abbey lies at the edge of Wytham Woods, an area of long-established English woodland and protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.With the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the estate was sold to Sir Richard Harcourt and thereafter passed by marriage to the Earls of Abingdon.The 5th Earl made the Abbey his principal seat in the early 1800s and significantly remodelled the building in the Georgian era Gothic style, which it retains today.[4] In 1920, the 7th Earl sold the Abbey, along with the rest of the 2,500-acre estate, to Colonel Raymond ffennell, who subsequently bequeathed the whole to the University of Oxford.[6] The foundation announced the planned sale of the Abbey in April 2024,[9] and it was placed on the open market with a list price of £15M in May 2024.