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.