You might be familiar with Buildwas Abbey, but have you heard the legend of the greedy abbot who met a grisly end and supposedly still haunts the abbey to this day?
Buildwas Abbey, in a picture brought in to the Shropshire Star offices in 2013
"1342 wasn’t a great year for Buildwas Abbey, though the trouble really began around 18 months earlier, when a horrendous cattle disease struck Shropshire. Unknowingly, this disease would start a chain of events that would lead to murder. From an undated picture brought into the Shropshire Star offices in 2013, captioned 'Chapter House, Buildwas Abbey'
"Tong raised the concerns, and soon enough, a meeting between the two men was arranged to discuss the growing dissent and the overall economic situation. The meeting was a rather unpleasant affair, with the two men quickly losing their tempers. As the argument raised and insults were thrown, something in Thomas Tong snapped, and he stabbed the abbot to death.
Whatever happened to Thomas, it appears he wasn't punished too harshly - perhaps because of his status as a man of the cloth - and was even able to rejoin the order after some time.Buildwas Abbey in lithograph, by JC Bayliss in 1856
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