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The Anglican Benedictine community of nuns that has made its home at Malling Abbey since 1916 was founded in 1891 as an active parish sisterhood. The sisters worked among the poor in Edmonton , north London, until they became attracted to the Benedictine contemplative life through the preaching of Abbot Aelred Carlyle .
England. Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire (monks), fdd 1608 in Dieulouard, France; Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire (monks), fdd 1859; Buckfast Abbey in Devon (monks), fdd 1882, aggregated to the EBC in the 1960s; Curzon Park Abbey in Cheshire (nuns), fdd 1868 as an Anglican community, aggregated to the EBC 1921; Douai Abbey in Berkshire ...
Founded in 1882 and dedicated to the Peace of the Heart of Jesus, St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, belongs to the Benedictine Order, and in particular to the Solesmes Congregation of Dom Prosper Guéranger. [1] The nuns live a traditional monastic life of prayer, work and study in accordance with the ancient Rule of Saint Benedict.
Godstow Abbey was built on what was then an island between streams running into the River Thames. The site was given to the founder Edith de Launceline, in 1133 by John of St. John [8] Edith was the widow of William and she had been living alone in Binsey in Oxfordshire, before deciding to found a group of nuns. [9]
The community is made up of professed monks and nuns, novices, and 'alongsiders'. Alongsiders live with the community [12] for a variety of reasons, ranging from exploring a possible monastic vocation, to a simple desire to experience the monastic life for a while. Alongsiders stay with the community for between one and twelve months and while ...
Belmont Abbey, in Herefordshire, England, is a Catholic Benedictine monastery that forms part of the English Benedictine Congregation. It stands on a small hill overlooking the city of Hereford to the east, with views across to the Black Mountains in Wales to the west. The 19th century Abbey also serves as a parish church.
Minster Abbey is the name of two abbeys in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, England. The first was a 7th-century foundation which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries . Beside its ruins is St Mildred's Priory , a Benedictine community of women founded in 1937.
In July 1988 the community of nuns moved to a much smaller property in Curzon Park, Chester, where they also have a small retreat house. The main Abbey building is a converted late 19th Century mansion constructed mainly of red brick. A chapel was built on the Curzon Park Abbey site in 1997.