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Contemplative life of prayer
Welcome to Stanbrook Abbey
The Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook Abbey, Wass. trace their roots back to nine young Englishwomen, pioneers of the community’s first monastery set up in Flanders in the seventeenth century. Imprisoned during the French Revolution, a small band returned to England, eventually settling in Worcester until the move to Yorkshire in 2009. We have designed our new home to sustain a simple monastic life while conserving and enhancing the natural resources, beauty and culture of the surrounding North York Moors.
Affiliated to Stanbrook is the community of Curzon Park, Chester. Founded in 1868 within the Anglican Church, the nuns were received into the Catholic Church in 1931. In 1988, they moved to Chester, where they built a chapel and established a small retreat house.
History
In 1625 nine young English exiles, led by a great-great-granddaughter of St Thomas More, were professed at Cambrai, Flanders. Founded within the English Benedictine Congregation, the young community inherited its characteristic love of learning and spirit of hospitality, and followed Fr Augustine Baker into the way of an interior search for God based on the training of will, mind and heart. In 1795 those who survived the harsh conditions of imprisonment during the French Revolution returned to England. The community settled at Stanbrook, Worcestershire, in 1838. The nuns moved to their present location in North Yorkshire in May 2009.
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