English: Abbey church of Mount St Bernard Abbey, Charley, Leicestershire, seen from the west. [135], The younger Pugin may have been responsible for the clock tower of 1871 and also The Lodge - a Grade II listed stone cottage on the monastery estate, which carries the date 1856 on a plaque. The arms are those of Pius XI, the reigning pope at the completion of the church, the shield of Citeaux, and that of Mount St Bernard/Abbot Malachy. However, the brewery must remain secondary in importance to the monastery's work and way of life, it was stated that it was unlikely that such demand would be satisfied. They sat down in groups beneath the rock, whilst the Rev. As this painting depicts a church building with a tower and spire, it has been argued that Herbert's portrait does not represent Mount St Bernard, as the abbey was without a tower until the twentieth century and has never had a spire. Silence and solitude are important to the order and the abbey. [35] A wall sculpture by Leicester Thomas, commemorating the life of Father Cyprian, has been erected in the public nave of the abbey church. The carved heads are by Father Vincent Eley and Robert Kiddey (190084), a Newark-based artist and sculptor,[120] who was responsible for the large woodcarving in Southwell Minster, entitled "Flight into Egypt"[121] They represent four angels and eight famous Cistercians: Pope Eugene III; Cardinal Bona; St Peter of Tarentaise; St Aelred of Rievaulx; St Lutgardis of Aywires; Eleanor, Queen of Aragon; King Eric II of Norway and Walter Espec, knight. He had a particular interest in ecumenicalism and was involved with the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom. The abbey was amongst the first of more than sixty monastic communities to be visited by Roseman over a period of several years. Three of them were passed as fit for foreign service, whilst the other three undertook service at home. Until the late twentieth century, the monks slept in long dormitories, but now have their own cells, enabling greater solitude and individual prayer.[94]. Fortunately, the monastery's revival continued under his successor, Dom Malachy Brasil - the third Irishman to rule the abbey, who took charge in 1933, elected as abbot by the monks of Mount St Bernard on the basis of his excellent reputation, gained as prior of Roscrea. The tower was since demolished. This design attracted significant criticism at the time, but Abbott Malachy is now recognized as having been many years ahead of his time in having conceptualized such a scheme. Community See All. It contains things that matter to me, things Ive thought about and that make me think, things I find beautiful and challenging. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the sole Trappist house in England. In January 2021, it was reported that the bones of two humans had been discovered when part of a wall was moved during construction work on the chapter house of 1860. Purcell, Edmund Sheridan: "Life and Letters of Ambrose Phillips de Lisle", MacMillan, 1900. [135], E. W. Pugin, the eldest son of A. W. N. Pugin, was responsible for reconstruction of the Chapter House in 1860. 01530 832298 or 832022. [5] He is known to have sent two of his employees, Edmund Yates and Thomas Speight there, to write articles about the monastery for publication in his weekly magazines, All the Year Round and Household Words. He received subjects, professed them and had a large number of his monks raised to the priesthood. We, We will require a full vaccination passport from the NHS official website and a. before coming. Already Pugin, the famous architect of the nineteenth century had designed a small church of which the nave had been completed. Railton carried out several commissions for Ambrose March Phillipps including Grace Dieu Manor. During cultivation of the monastery estate, on 2 June 1840, Lay Brother John Patrick McDanell, together with labourers William Hickin and Charles Lott, unearthed an urn with their plough, which contained approximately 2000 Roman coins, "conglomerated together, and covered with the green oxide of copper". There was an awe-inspiring sense of God expanding, as if to fill every corner of the church and the whole world. They meditatively read the Bible, which is called Lectio Divina. The tomb of the founder, Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, can be found in the south aisle of the original (western) nave. The outcome was inevitable and the abbot resigned his office in 1858, following an enquiry by papal commission. 143 check-ins. No. Next local delivery day is Thursday 2nd March. The University claimed that this agreement had not been legally binding and declined to release the king's remains, which were finally reinterred in the Anglican Leicester Cathedral, on 26 March 2015. The current pipe organ was installed in 2014 and was salvaged from a church in Munich. The abbot places the first shovelful of earth on the body, after which his brothers fill the grave by shoveling earth onto the body's feet, letting it gradually encompass the body, after which all withdraw.[101]. During this period the personnel of the community increased and reached the highest ever. This improved in the 20th century and the church was extended between 1935 and 1939 from the designs of Albert Herbert of Leicester, although it was not consecrated until 1945, by the Bishop of Nottingham. Father Peter Logue (1913 - 2010) was reported to have been the oldest monk ever to have been at the abbey when he died at the age of 96, having been a monk there for 75 years. Reports had apparently reached Abbot Ryan that Father Odilo was introducing 'strange practices' and that the lay-brothers had become practically choir monks. Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastic community founded in 1835. [137], In June 2018, the Abbey's monks became the first in the UK to brew Trappist beer. Mount Saint Bernard Abbey online shop is now live! The severe, undecorated Gothic style of the church is traditional in the Cistercian order and can be seen in the remnants of old Cistercian abbeys. MacCarthy, Fiona: "The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination", Harvard University Press, 2012, Anson, Peter: "Building Up The Waste Places - The Revival of Monastic Life on Medieval Lines in the Post-Reformation Church of England", Nottingham Evening Post, 29 December 1926, The Catholic Institute Magazine, Vol. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the sole Trappist house in England. [152] Mrs Haydock was of the Worsley Worswick family and was laid to rest in the secular cemetery of the abbey in 1929. Entered the abbey in 1848 and for some time was Superior of the reformatory school there. [69], He was succeeded as superior in 1841 by John Bernard Palmer, who had entered the monastery at Lulworth in 1808. [5], In 1890, Dom Wilfred Hipwood became abbot. Seventeen have put their names on a form sent to the monastery this week, including the Father Abbot". Their work includes the production of pottery, bookbinding, beekeeping and tending the vegetable garden and orchard. The hanging pyx in which the Sacrament of the Body of Christ is reserved is of stainless steel and copper and was designed and made by Father Alban Buggins. Why there? "The whole of the buildings", wrote Pugin, "are erected in the greatest severity of the lancet style, with massive walls and buttresses, long and narrow windows, high gables and roofs, with deeply arched doorways. Pevsner, Nikolaus et al: "The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland", Second Edition, 1984, published by Penguin Books pages 323 - 325, "Mount Saint Bernard Abbey: A Brief Historical Sketch", late 20th-century leaflet by St Bernard Monastery. [66] Both brothers later embarked on missionary work in Australia. We wish all our friends a blessed Holy Week! 3 minutes. [96] There are accounts which indicate that beer was brewed by the monks of Mount St Bernard in the nineteenth century,[97][98] the earliest of these from 1847, when it was reported that the monks here produced a beer "of purity and excellence". The bones were discovered on Monday when part of a wall was removed during construction work at the chapter. Dom Ambrose was already abbot vicar of the order when, in 1974 he was elected abbot general, the highest office in the order. Bernard Burder himself was a somewhat changeable character and his tenure as abbot proved to be unsettled. In 1974, the monastery elected their prior, Father Cyril Bunce as abbot. Delivery up to 45 miles from Abbey Under 15 miles - no minimum order / free delivery The monks brew the only Trappist beer in Britain. He was the unanimous choice of his brethren as their first abbot. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century this house was known as "Charnwood Tower" and was the home of Mrs Emma Frances Haydock, who was a generous benefactor to the Catholic cause locally. [23] Another architect, the Anglican George Frederick Bodley, was so stimulated by Pugin's monastery that he is said to have kept a description of the abbey at his bedside. (RIP 99 yrs)", "Brewing at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in England, 19th Century", "Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life - 4oD - Channel 4", https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2019/06/24/documentary-shines-light-on-englands-only-cistercian-monastery/, "Anglican Cistercians? [134], Also in Cademan Wood - about a quarter of a mile away from site of the Temple - there is a mound, upon which are still to be seen the foundations of another wayside structure commissioned by De Lisle, built between 1863 and 1864. [46][47], In 2009, the skeletons of more than 600 medieval Trappist monks from Stratford Langthorne Abbey were re-buried in the grounds of Mount St Bernard. The regularity of life at the abbey, the happy faces that shone through whatever they had suffered, the strong yet delicate singing, the early hours and hard work. Not a year passed during his time as superior that did not witness improvements made in both the buildings and farm. [30] The semi-circular foundations of the original Chapel of Dolours can still be found on an outcrop not far from the Man Within Compass public House in Whitwick and further trace of its memory can be found in the naming of Temple Hill, a residential road developed close by, around the time of the chapel's removal. His remains were re-interred in the cloister garth a century later, alongside the remains of monks previously interred at Lulworth. Mount St Bernard is the only abbey belonging to this order in England. The bones were discovered on Monday when part of a wall was removed during construction work at the chapter. September 26. Some Year Six pupils from Holy Trinity Catholic Academy in Newark were lucky enough to visit the incredible Mount St Bernard Abbey in rural Leicestershire an. Mount St Bernard's, founded in 1835, was the first abbey to be founded in England since the Dissolution. Havers, Maureen: "The Reformatory at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, 1856 - 1881", published by Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, 2006. [104], In March 2017, the community entered into membership of the International Trappist Association with a view to developing their artisanal economy following the closure of their dairy farm in 2014. He is Erik Varden, the Abbot of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in rural Leicestershire, and the only Trappist house in England. [5] This number was increased by the influx of many Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine of the 1840s. They came to the attention of Thomas Weld (of Lulworth), a Catholic recusant and philanthropist who distinguished himself in relieving the misfortunes of refugees of the French Revolution and who provided them with land on which to establish a monastic community on his estate in East Lulworth.[1]. Many illustrious English clergymen came, such as Nicholas Wiseman, John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning, William Bernard Ullathorne and George Stanley Faber and the monastery also drew writers and men of affairs from abroad, including Charles Forbes Ren de Montalembert, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Ignaz von Dllinger and Henri, Count of Chambord. Other than Blessed Cyprian Tansi or those who became abbots or superiors, they are summarized here. Following his retirement as Abbot in 2001, Dom John Moakler was made Abbot Emeritus and later took up the position of chaplain at Holy Cross Abbey in Whitland, Wales. "[9], The church was consecrated on 20 August 1844, the feast day of Saint Bernard, but was to remain unfinished for more than ninety years. Almshouse projects to right, with arch in gabled side porch. Until 2014 the monks ran a 200-acre (0.81km2) dairy farm, but this was hit by falling milk prices. Huge opposition to the founding of the monastery had been mounted by Francis Merewether, Vicar of Whitwick, who preached and wrote prolifically against the revival of 'Romanism'[12][13] and parish authorities had apparently "spoke of holding parties of pleasure upon the rock and of over looking the monks". [107], The Abbey Church is dedicated to the Greater Glory of God, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Bernard.[108]. This is open to the public, reached by a winding footpath with an ascent aided by stone steps fashioned by the monks. St. Bernard: Ordre Cistercien de la Stricte Observance: OCSO", "Mount Saint Bernard: Ordre Cistercien de la Stricte Observance: OCSO", "Dom Donald's Blog: News Mount Saint Bernard Abbey", "Brasil, Malachy Biographia Cisterciensis", "Mount Saint Bernard/bteliste Biographia Cisterciensis", "Liturgical Press, Catholic Book Publisher & Online Sales", "FATHER ERIK VARDEN: "GOD TOUCHED MY HEART WITH MUSIC", "Dom Donald's Blog: Brother Gabriel Manoque O.S.C.O. More and more my heart is pining for that monastery in the Charnwood Forest. To be a Catholic, I was once told, is to be hospitable. or. Father Robert believed that these finds and the presence of "several ancient mounds" in the immediate vicinity indicated that there had been a Roman military post here. Burder enjoyed a swift progression of office, being recorded as "Master of the Novices" and then sub-prior, before succeeding Abbot Palmer as superior six years later. A range of products are available for local delivery, including Tynt Meadow trappist ale and Mount Saint Bernard honey. Blessed Cyprian was a monk at the abbey from 1950 until his death in 1964. He possesses a fine, full, clear voice, and a distinct enunciation". Range extended to rear C20. [136] This house, which stands close to the staggered cross-roads at Oaks in Charnwood, has an ornamental tiled roof and chamfered stone door and window surrounds, features which are thought to lend weight to the suggestion that it was designed by E. W. Pugin. His tenure saw a decline in numbers; by the time of his death in 1910, the community numbered fewer than thirty monks. The documentary was put together over a three-year period and Hamer was given unprecedented access to the monastery, which included a week living alongside the monks, following their daily observations. Caspar Pound (1970 - 2004), musician and founder of Rising High Records was laid to rest here with his father Pelham Pendennis Pound (1922 - 1999), a former features editor of the News of the World who wrote "What The Papers Say" for the BBC World Service and who was the father of the Labour politician Stephen Pound MP. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the sole Trappist house in England. [74] His twenty years as abbot were marred by almost constant ill-health and he was confined to his room during the last ten years of his life. The Trappist monks of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey have started an artisanal brewery. It was during Dom Malachy's time that the abbey attained its present form, with the completion of the abbey church, just over one hundred years after the foundation of the monastery. [4], The land that the monks took possession of in September 1835 was largely uncultivated, but it contained an ancient enclosure known as Tynt Meadow. [20] After his death in 1898, his widow wrote: "Though it is doubtful whether he ever saw the place again with his bodily eyes, the thought of it accompanied him throughout his whole life. Charnwood Forest Coalville England LE67 5UL View on map. [138][139] Called "Tynt Meadow" (7.4% ABV), after the location of the abbey, it is available to visitors and sold through public outlets. Hadas is professor emerita at Rutgers's Newark campus. Mount St. Bernard Abbey | Coalville She meets 90-year-old Father Anselm and Brother Timothy, one of the youngest monks. [5] Abbot Anderson oversaw a number of additions made to the monastery buildings, including the Clock Tower and the octagonal Chapter House. The ancient past can show us similarities to the polarized times of today. 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[33] Hore-Belisha's private papers show that he stayed at the abbey regularly - once for a period of nine weeks. The first monks were Augustine, Luke, Xavier, Cyprian, Placid, Simeon and Fr Odilo Woolfrey. Also a small round article, having the appearance of a Roman lamp, and composed of terra-cotta. Abbot Joseph resigned this position in 2022, and was succeeded by Dom Peter Claver Craddy as Superior. The wooden crucifix and the stone plaques over the side altars are the work of Father Francis O'Malley. The outstanding costs of transporting the organ by lorry from Bavaria were aided by an inaugural concert performed by Joseph Cullen, sometime organist of Westminster Cathedral and Jennifer Smith (soprano), a professor of the Royal College of Music, following a special service on 8 June 2014.[119]. In January 2020, the monks of Mount St Bernard re-elected Father Joseph Delargy as their Abbot for a third term in this office. This represented a considerable loss to the monastery as it had only twenty monks in residence - the smallest number since its foundation. Mary's Abbey, Stratford Langthorne', and not, 'the remains from'. After being closed for nearly eighteen months, we plan to resume our monastic hospitality from Monday 1, November. Writing in 1955, Dr Douglas Latto of Harley Street suggested that the monks of Mount St Bernard enjoyed "excellent health" and longevity as a result. Email: guestmaster@mountsaintbernard.org Tel: 01530 839162, 832298 or 832022 (option 3) The preferred method of booking is by email. [67] Father Benedict, who had joined the monastery at Lulworth in 1813,[68] died at Mount St Bernard in 1850. [citation needed], In 1839, the founder, Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle wrote: "The Monks have already commenced drawing the stone, and one of the Contractors for the Midland Counties railway has very generously given them enough iron rails to make a little Railway to their great granite rock from the spot on which the Monastery is to stand, so that by the help of a rope and a wind-lace with only one horse all the material except sand, lime, and free stone will be drawn. Confessions of a Community College Dean. When eventually he laid aside the pastoral staff in 1959 he left to his successor a flourishing abbey". The surfaces of the piers and walls have been scored with a piece of pointed wood to give the effect of masonry. Follow for regular posts, updates, and a behind-the-scenes look at work in the brewery. Pugin borrowed from these remains in his efforts to reproduce their simple and austere beauty and personally supervised the construction of the western nave, which was completed in 1844. We have now officially started taking booking, However, to comply with our Government guidelines on social distancing/Covid-19, we can only accommodate a limited number of guests and are only open from Monday to Friday. Without this, we will not be able to take your booking. In 1889, Father Louis had been appointed as superior of New Melleray Abbey in Iowa[75] and later became a definitor of the order. [15] More recent historians have tended to the idea that the hoard may have been placed here 'in hiding' and forgotten about. O'Malley was a follower of Eric Gill and the first headmaster of Grace Dieu Manor School, a preparatory school for Ratcliffe College founded in 1933. [51], In September 1839, Abbot Ryan sent over Father Benedict Johnson, who had been cellarer of Mount Melleray, to replace Father Odilo as superior. All pieces are handmade on site and one of a kind. This is another mark of the divine protection in my opinion [and] besides this, you will be glad to hear that the proprietor of the Barrow lime works (not Barrow on Trent but Barrow-on-Soar) has given them gratis all the lime they will want for the whole edifice; is not this glorious? Large numbers of the unemployed made their way to the monastery on a daily basis, where soup in large quantities was gratuitously supplied. See more of Mount St. Bernard Abbey on Facebook. [26] This painting was purchased by the Tate Gallery in 1972. There it stood for nearly a century unfinished. [102] In 2019, the Abbey was the subject of a full-length documentary by Leicester filmmaker, Nick Hamer, entitled Outside the City. Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic, Trappist monastery near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley. 12.15 pm. The monks brew the only Trappist beer in Britain. Unfortunately, we do not currently offer shipping. The monastery archives held no record of such an interment and police were called in, but were satisfied that the remains were not connected with any crime. Some monks of Mount St Bernard have become known for their longevity and length of service to the community. [100], Any monk that dies at Mount St Bernard will end up in the monastery's communal coffin. About See All. [130], The Calvary at Mount St Bernard has the distinction of being only the second in England since the Reformation. The original sandstone plaque is badly weathered and largely illegible and a more modern replacement has been fixed beneath it, at the instigation of Gerard de Lisle (another descendant), to perpetuate the inscription. Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions. [131], The chapel contains "two most exquisite and remarkable figures executed by the Austrian sculptor, Johann Petz[de] (1818-80) of Munich, and representing in painted wood the Blessed Virgin weeping over her divine Son, who has just been taken down from the Cross, the nails being laid at His feet". [141], In 1856 a reformatory school for Catholic delinquent boys was founded at Mount St Bernard and was housed in the original monastery built by Railton (now demolished). [5] Dom Ambose stepped down as Abbot-General in 1990 and later became superior of Bamenda Abbey (Cameroon) which he served from 1993 until 1996, and superior of Scourmont Abbey (Belgium), from 1996 until 1998. Several monks were at work in the adjoining Hayfields, working most industriously in their grey woollen gowns, one with his cowl up, and others, Lay brethren I believe, clothed in black". General Chapter Part 2. Mount St Bernard Abbey maintains an ecumenical link with the Anglican Cistercians, a dispersed and uncloistered order of single, celibate and married men that is officially recognized within the Church of England. Bishop Erik Varden, former abbot of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, has launched a website. Wed 7 Aug 2019 03.00 EDT 10.27 EDT. The tower was designed by Edward Welby Pugin and was medieval in appearance, redolent of the Water Bastion in Delhi, where March Phillips had been killed during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Summarize this article for a 10 years old. [15] The coins were identified as being from the time of Gallienus and Tetricus I in the third century AD, and the find led to speculation that the land may have been inhabited during Roman times. Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic, Trappist monastery near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley. Following a short sabbatical in India, Father Joseph assumed duties as the Abbey Guestmaster[79]. Abbot Erik, 46, is the son of a country vet in . The remaining coins are housed at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester. Mount St Bernard Abbey. [24] In 1847, "36,000 people received charity and hospitality from the hands of the monks".[25]. Brother Martin produces a wide range of pottery including mugs, jugs, plates, and bowls. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/tyntmeadow/, For brewery enquiries, please email: brewery@mountsaintbernard.org, List of stockists available on our website: http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale. Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic, Trappist monastery near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley. (States that Benedict Johnson died in his 54th year), Dictionary of National Biography, Elder & Co, 1895, p.143, The Catholic Who's Who and Yearbook - Volume 34 (1924) - Page 353, Potter, T.R: "The History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest", 1842, p 159, Dom Hilary Costello: "Nineteenth Century English Cistercian Spirituality", 1982, "A Concise History of the Cistercian Order: With its Revival in England at St Susan's, Lullworth and Mount St. Bernard Leicestershire", by "A Cistercian Monk", 1852, p.280, O'Neil, Robert: "Cardinal Herbert Vaughan: Archbishop of Westminster, etc", Publd by Burns and Oates, 1997. Father Louis died in 1927, whilst on holiday in Ireland. [103] The documentary (with a 2020 date) was shown on BBC Four in March 2021 under the title Brotherhood: the Inner Life of Monks. "[109], In February 1934 work was begun on extending the abbey church, with eighty monks working for four years on a project which saw the building lengthened from 90 feet to 220 feet. Stratford Langthorne had been one of the wealthiest monasteries in England, closed in Henry VIII's dissolution in 1538. Monks in Leicestershire have become the first in the UK to brew an officially recognised Trappist beer. [5][bettersourceneeded], Work began on a temporary monastery, opened in 1837, to the designs of William Railton, known today for having designed Nelson's Column in London. The Cistercian order dates back to the 12th century and the Trappists to the mid-17th century. The chapter house, which is octagonal, with a conical roof, is a larger replacement of A. W. N. Pugin's original. So great was the scale of the poverty during this period that the monks were feeding many thousands of people each year. Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic, Trappist monastery near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley. [5] After several attempts to join other monastic communities and spells as a private chaplain, Bernard Burder died at Lulworth Castle in September 1881. He was, until his death in 1852, the only mitred abbot in England, and the 'Abbot of Mount Saint Bernard' was widely known, but it was for his humility, charity and love for the poor that he was most widely recognised and esteemed". After examining the accounts and revenue of the abbey he planned the building of the monastic church. [5] Burder was a grandson of George Burder, a non-conformist divine who had been one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Religious Tract Society and the London Missionary Society, and editor of the Evangelical Magazine. [99], In keeping with the tradition of the Trappist Order, the monks live on a vegetarian diet. On the weekend of September 30-October 1, seven of our sisters joined our brothers at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA for a series of lectures by Dr. Jame Schaefer. The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Rememberance, A time for Prayer (CD) - With the Monks of Mount St Bernard Abbey, Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device, http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale. This has not prevented them from reading of the protest petition and signing it, however. [133], By the middle of the twentieth century, the chapel had succumbed to vandalism, having stood derelict for many years and in 1955, at the suggestion of Captain Ambrose de Lisle, it was dismantled and reassembled on its present site by the monks of Mount St Bernard. [42], In 1978, the Abbey was visited by the New York-based artist, Stanley Roseman. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the sole Trappist house in England. We hope to be able to add more in due course. 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