Stanbrook Abbey
Stanbrook Abbey is a Catholic contemplative Benedictine Monastery with the status of an abbey, located at Wass, North Yorkshire, England.
| Monastery of Our Lady of Consolation | |
Stanbrook Abbey Church in Wass, North Yorkshire | |
| Formation | 1625 |
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| Founder | Helen More et al. |
| Founded at | Cambrai Abbey |
| Type | Catholic religious order |
Main organ | Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB) |
Parent organization | Catholic Church |
| Website | www |
The community was founded in 1625 at Cambrai in Flanders (then part of the Spanish Netherlands, now in France), under the auspices of the English Benedictine Congregation. After being imprisoned during the French Revolution, the surviving nuns fled to England and in 1838 settled at Stanbrook, Callow End, Worcestershire, where a new abbey was built. With the steep contemporary decline in monastic life, the community left their Grade II-listed property, to relocate to Wass in the North York Moors National Park in 2009. The former Worcestershire monastic estate, as of 2020, was operated as a luxury hotel.
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