St. Benedict’s Priory, Colwich

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Date:1906

Description:A postcard view of St. Benedict’s Priory, Colwich. 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 (December 2019) the Priory is known as St. Mary's Abbey.

This postcard was franked in Great Haywood on 20 February 1906 and sent to an address in Ingestre.

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