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St. Mary's Abbey

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Location	:	Oulton, Stafford Borough, England
Description	:	St Mary's Abbey, also known as Oulton Abbey, is a monastery of Benedictine Nuns that came to Oulton from Ghent, via Caverswall Castle. The Abbey is an important design by E W Pugin, built in 1853-4. The church was designed early in Pugin’s career and displays his father’s influence. It contains fine furnishings designed by Hardman, Powell, Pugin and others. With the presbytery and abbey (Oulton House), the church forms an important historic group in an attractive, sheltered setting on the edge of the village. The rambling house at Oulton Abbey was built in several phases, originating in 1720 as... Read More	St Mary's Abbey, also known as Oulton Abbey, is a monastery of Benedictine Nuns that came to Oulton from Ghent, via Caverswall Castle. The Abbey is an important design by E W Pugin, built in 1853-4. The church was designed early in Pugin’s career and displays his father’s influence. It contains fine furnishings designed by Hardman, Powell, Pugin and others. With the presbytery and abbey (Oulton House), the church forms an important historic group in an attractive, sheltered setting on the edge of the village. The rambling house at Oulton Abbey was built in several phases, originating in 1720 as Oulton House, built by Thomas Dent, a solicitor. This was added to in 1822, and in the 1830s it was occupied by the Duke of Sutherland while Trentham Hall was under construction. From 1838 the house was a private asylum known as Oulton Retreat, until 1853 when it was acquired by an order of Benedictine nuns previously at Caverswall Castle. The Order had been founded in Brussels in 1597 by Lady Mary Percy, and re-established in Ghent in 1624 by Dame Lucy Knatchbull, for English nuns. In 1794 the nuns were forced to flee the continent and initially settled in Preston, before moving to Caverswall Castle in 1811. There, A W Pugin was consulted on a new church, but the moated site proved too small, and the nuns moved to Oulton House in 1853. The abbess, Lady Juliana Forster commissioned E W Pugin, then aged just nineteen, to design the abbey church, one of his first designs. Pugin’s sisters attended the school, along with daughters of Hardman. The church opened in 1854, and was consecrated in 1856 by Bishop Ullathorne. A chapter house, presbytery and sacristy were added in 1892. In 1925 a chapel to St Benedict was built between the chapter house and the sanctuary, on the south side. The Abbey Cemetery is located near the cloister at the back of the property.

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