The Abbot's Kitchen, Glastonbury, Somerset. The abbot of Glastonbury kept great state, now attested to simply by the ruins of the abbot's kitchen, with four huge fireplaces at its corners. The kitchen was part of the magnificent Abbot's house begun under Abbot John de Breynton (1334?42). It is one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe, and the only substantial monastic building at surviving at Glastonbury.