 One of the two surviving Glastonbury chairs is on display in the palace . It was made in Britain from a description brought back from Rome in 1504 by Abbot Richard Beere to Glastonbury Abbey , and was produced for or by John Arthur Thorne , a monk who was the treasurer at the abbey . Arthur perished on Glastonbury Tor in 1539 , hanged , drawn and quartered alongside his master , Richard Whiting , the last Abbot of Glastonbury , during the dissolution of the monasteries . The Abbot sat on a Glastonbury chair of this type during his trial at the Bishop 's Palace . Other chairs of this age and later reproductions can also be seen . 
