Building takes many years. Wool is produced and exported from the abbey. I visits Buckfast, during a tour of important abbeys in the south west. An estimated 180 monks are living at Buckfast. The Black Death reaches Buckfast.
Many monks die from the plague, and parts of abbey fall into disuse.
Under Abbot Kyng, several new buildings are added, including the Guest Hall and Abbot's Tower, parts of which survive in the present building. The Dissolution of the Monasteries. King Henry VIII orders the closure of Buckfast, and takes possession of its lands and treasures. Abbey buildings are demolished or converted to other use. 1806 Samuel Berry, owner of the local woollen mill, builds a mansion in the grounds of the ruined abbey.