St. Benedict's Priory, Colwich

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Date:1907 - 1910 (c.)

Description:This postcard view was published by William Shaw of Burslem.

St. Benedict's was originally a house, built by Little Haywood architect Charles Trubshaw in about 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.

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Image courtesy of: Mr Bob Metcalfe

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Source: Mr Bob Metcalfe

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