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meet the requirements in full. Thorough procedures ensure the safe recruitment of staff, and all the necessary checks are carried out...The quality of the pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural education is excellent. This fulfils the school's aim of developing high personal standards in each pupil in the light of the school's Christian context. By the time they leave, their personal development is excellent...The quality of the school's arrangements for pastoral care is excellent."
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was appointed as Prior Administrator for a two-year period from September 2018, and in August 2020 he was elected the first Abbot of Downside Abbey in six years. In the same week, it was announced that the monks would begin the search for a new home due to "smaller numbers and changing circumstances"
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had previously criticised a lack of urgency in making improvements to child protection. The Charity Commission also sent a compliance team to work with the school on this, which it treated as "a high-risk case". The Abbot responded by apologising to parents and reported that 50 years of confidential
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In January 2012, Father Richard White, a Downside Abbey monk who formerly taught at its school, was jailed for five years for gross indecency and indecent assault against a pupil in the late 1980s. White, 66, who was known to pupils as Father Nick, had been allowed to continue teaching after he was
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The Independent Schools Inspectorate's most recent report, 2013, states: "The arrangements for welfare, health and safety are excellent. The school's safeguarding arrangements are much improved since the November 2010 inspection and, as in the advisory visit in November 2011, policies and practice
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in Somerset, South West England. In 2020, the monastic community announced that it would move away from the present monastery and seek a new place to live. In October 2021, the monastic community further announced that as part of their transition they would move in Spring of 2022 to the temporary
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In March 2017 it was reported that the Abbey was to publish a copy of a Georgian recipe book from 1793 that was discovered in its library in 2016. Amongst other items it included one of the earliest known UK recipes for curry. It also chronicles day-to-day life at Begbrook House near Bristol.
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In May 2020, it was reported that in the time following the 2018 release of the IICSA report, the school experienced major financial difficulties due to legal costs, settlement payments and falling rolls, and was obliged to sell some of its Renaissance-era paintings.
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and leading members of the Roman Catholic community throughout Great Britain. In honour of the occasion the Abbey Church has been raised by the Pope to the dignity of the Minor Basilica – the first in England – and this confers upon the Abbot the right to wear the
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officials were said to be taking an urgent interest in child protection arrangements at the school. Inspection reports referred specifically to seven monks who had worked at the school at different times and whose behaviour had been "a cause for concern". The
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first caught abusing a child in 1987 and was able to go on to groom and assault another pupil in the junior school. He was placed on a restricted ministry and did not have any contact with the school after the second incident but was not arrested until 2010.
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Two other monks with connections to Downside, also former teachers, received police cautions during an 18-month criminal investigation. One of the cautioned monks has been named as Brother Anselm (Michael Hurt), brother of actor
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and transmission. The whole instrument is enclosed within three stone and concrete chambers with swell shutters facing upwards, except the Tuba box which speaks down into the transept. Unusually, the casework (designed by
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style, in Bath stone ashlar with plain red tile roofs; the east chapels are roofed in copper sheeting. It is designed to rival in size the medieval cathedrals of England that were lost to the Catholic Church through the
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school records indicated that four of the monks had faced police action, two had restrictions imposed on them, and one was cleared and returned to monastic life. A review of school governance was already taking place.
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grant of £856,000 in 2013, the archives have opened to the public, and much of the collection of rare books and manuscripts has been digitised. The grant also enabled repair and improvement of the library building.
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During the 19th century, Downside remained a small monastic school. Dom Leander Ramsay was the founder of modern Downside; he planned the new buildings that opened in 1912 and now form two sides of the Quad.
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in 1931 to replace the Garrard organ: it has 142 speaking stops over four manuals and pedals. This extraordinarily large number of stops is derived from 38 ranks of pipes by means of
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The building of Downside abbey church was begun in 1873 with the transepts and the Lady Chapel. The foundation stone was laid on 1 October 1873 and the ceremony was reported in the
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To-day, with the full solemnity of Catholic ritual, Downside Abbey, which was commenced more than a half-a-century ago, was consecrated by the Cardinal Prince-Primate of Hungary,
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The monastery and attached cloisters were completed in 1873, except for the south end which was completed in 1899. As with the first phase of the church the architects were
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in Shropshire. By degrees they have increased their property to some 350 acres, and are known to have the best cultivated farms in their part of the county of Somerset.
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from Ireland, seven Archbishops, twelve Bishops and fifteen Abbots. Over 500 priests accepted invitations to attend and among the lay guests were the
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for boys and girls from the age of 11 to 18. As in most Roman Catholic schools in the 21st century, non-Catholic pupils are accepted.
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and established the new community with other monks from England who had entered various monasteries within the Spanish Benedictine
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Yesterday week the foundation stones of the new church and collegiate and monastic buildings were laid amidst much ceremonial.
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in 1907, it survives today somewhere in America, having been sold following water damage sustained in Stratton in 1969.
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Father Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, abbot of Downside from 1990 to 1998, was among three Downside abbots accused by
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The building, together with the attached north part of the cloister, was designated as Grade I listed in 1986.
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The Priory of St Gregory was therefore the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the
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Since September 2019, the school and the abbey are run by separate trusts as part of reforms overseen by the
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The Abbey and the daily activities of two monks were the subject of Episode 1 of the television series
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Downside monks founded daughter houses at Ealing, west London (founded 1897, independent 1947, became
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The school has a board of governors with eleven members, one of whom is from the Abbey community.
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style as "the most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in England".
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The monastery was completed in 1876. Downside was granted Abbey status in October 1899 (with
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Perspective view of Downside Abbey as envisioned in 1873, from the firm of Dunn & Hansom
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The abbey church was consecrated in 1935. At the same time it was raised to the rank of a
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Downside School, which until 2019 was attached to the monastery, is a Roman Catholic
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In 1925 the unfinished nave was dedicated to those old boys of the school killed in
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The Abbey Cemetery, primarily a burial ground for the community, also contains two
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The England organ was to be replaced in 1905 with a new instrument by Garrard of
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in 1955); and at Worth, West Sussex (founded 1933, independent 1957, became
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is acknowledged as one of the most complete and successful schemes of Sir
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OSB, abbot, bishop, scripture scholar, author, theologian, council father
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Consecration of the Abbey: the procession of relics towards the west door
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and Douai) and Prior Edmund Ford was elected the first Abbot in 1900.
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in the wake of an investigation into child abuse of pupils by monks.
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The Art of the Sublime: Principles of Christian Art and Architecture
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Prior/Abbot Nicholas Wetz (Prior Administrator 2018–20, Abbot 2020–)
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and altar furnishings incorporating medieval fragments and a
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The Monastery's collections consist of some 450,000 books,
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down the north side of the nave, is made from timber from
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rendering the current building unsuitable for the future.
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Minor basilica and abbey church of St Gregory the Great
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Christian monasteries established in the 17th century
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accommodation of "Southgate House, in the grounds of
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presided at the ceremony, and he was accompanied by
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CWGC Cemetery Report, details from casualty record.
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Somerset Churches Trust. Archived from 1067:stone standing bare and undecorated. The 3733:St Mary of the Angels Church, Brownshill 3005:Downside Abbey: An Architectural History 1689:Downside Abbey: An Architectural History 1295:. Others buried here include Mrs. Baron 1154: 951: 866: 3831:Gothic Revival architecture in Somerset 3685:St Joseph's Catholic School, Laverstock 3660:St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School 2505: 2411: 968:. The consecration was reported in the 3783: 3395: 2251: 2074:– via British Newspaper Archive. 1994:– via British Newspaper Archive. 1948: 1721: 1611:"Benedictines to leave Downside Abbey" 1441:OSB, (sub-prior 1958–1991), theologian 1319:(later Archbishop of Sydney) (1805–19) 1176:and carved by Ferdinand Stuflesser of 1102: 55: 3811:Minor basilicas in the United Kingdom 3611:Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception 3369: 3077: 2818: 2471: 2469: 2202: 2112:"Basilicas Great Britain and Ireland" 1944: 1942: 1820:. 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Index

The abbey church and monastic library
basilica
Downside Abbey is located in Somerset
St Gregory the Great
Order
Benedictine
Roman Catholicism
Valladolid
Gregory the Great
Diocese
Clifton
St John Roberts OSB
Dom
Dom
Archibald Matthias Dunn
Edward Joseph Hansom
Cardinal Gasquet
Ambrose Barlow
Gothic revival
Buckfastleigh
Stratton-on-the-Fosse
Coordinates
51°15′20″N 2°29′43″W / 51.2556°N 2.4954°W / 51.2556; -2.4954
Grid reference
Oliver Plunkett
Thomas de Cantilupe
www.downsideabbey.co.uk
Benedictine
monastery
English Benedictine Congregation

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