Editing Buckfast Abbey (section)

====The final phase====

The Abbey Church was consecrated on 25 August 1932, after most of the building had been completed. Construction of the tower was completed in July 1937, with painting completed in December.<ref name="buckfast.org.uk"/> In 1968, [[Dom Charles Norris]] completed the east window in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, using the [[dalle de verre]] technique where coloured-glass tiles are shaped and formed into [[mosaic]]s bound with resin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.buckfast.org.uk/modernhistory |title=Modern History |access-date=11 February 2019 |archive-date=10 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810110555/https://www.buckfast.org.uk/modernhistory |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Buckfast receives many visitors. Men are lodged in the guest house belonging to the monastery, and men and women in a restored building.<ref name=beattie83/> Various tours are offered at the site.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckfast.org.uk/whats-on|title=What's on Buckfast Abbey|website=Buckfast Abbey|access-date=25 September 2017|archive-date=26 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042520/https://www.buckfast.org.uk/whats-on|url-status=live}}</ref> The hair shirt of Roman Catholic Saint [[Thomas More]] is now preserved at a side altar in the Abbey.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-now-enshrined-for-public-veneration.cfm|title=St. Thomas More's hair shirt now enshrined for public veneration|author=Simon Caldwell|date=21 November 2016|website=Catholic News Service|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230645/http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-now-enshrined-for-public-veneration.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/historic/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-enshrined-for-public-veneration-72241|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127140551/http://royalcentral.co.uk/historic/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-enshrined-for-public-veneration-72241|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 November 2016|title=St Thomas More's Hair Shirt Enshrined for Public Veneration|author=Christian Mills|date=26 November 2016|website=Royal Central}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org/news/hair-shirt-worn-st-thomas-enshrined-public-veneration-possibly-first-time|title=Hair-shirt worn by St Thomas More is enshrined for public veneration for possibly the first time|website=The Diocese of Shrewsbury|access-date=25 September 2017|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230945/http://www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org/news/hair-shirt-worn-st-thomas-enshrined-public-veneration-possibly-first-time|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, pipe organs were installed inside the Abbey church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ruffatti.com/en/news-on-the-buckfast-abbey-organ-devon-england/|title=News on the Buckfast Abbey organ, Devon, England|website=The Ruffatti Brothers|access-date=25 September 2017|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230725/http://ruffatti.com/en/news-on-the-buckfast-abbey-organ-devon-england/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buckfast.org.uk/|title=Homepage|website=Buckfast Abbey|access-date=25 September 2017|archive-date=21 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921001511/https://www.buckfast.org.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref>