St Aldhelm first of twenty seven bishops of Sherborne before the see was removed to Old Sarum (modern Salisbury) in 1075 but the Saxon Cathedral remained the abbey church of the monastery until the Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. The bishop remained the titular head of the monastery until 1122 when Sherborne was made an independent abbey by Roger de Caen, Bishop of Salisbury.

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