Description: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.
Postcard published by F. Frith & Co. Ltd., Reigate.