Description:St. Benedict's was originally a house, built by Charles Trubshaw c.1730. Trubshaw named the house Mount Pleasant. Over the years it was enlarged and eventually sold to a group of French Benedictine nuns; the order had escaped revolutionary France and settled in other homes in England before buying Mount Pleasant.
Today the priory is known as St. Mary's Abbey.
This photograph is from an album of local views taken by Edward King Tenison (1805-1878), a highly regarded photographer in the early decades of photography. His family seat was at Kilronen, Roscommon, Ireland and he married Louisa Mary Anne Anson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, also an accomplished amateur photographer. These images were probably taken during Tenison's visits to his wife's family home, Shugborough.