1 Caldey, Prinknash and Nashdom – A Shared Pictorial History by Richard Barton CALDEY 1906-1928 I have tried to limit these to the Benedictine period as there are numerous cards dating from the Cistercian years which commence in January 1929. Published by the Church Association Of the thirty-three members of the Caldey Community in 1913 twenty six were eventually received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, twenty of them on 5th March. Five others – one a novice and two oblates – (including Denys Prideaux) remained Anglicans until they died. The religious affiliation of the other two is not known. Only eight of the original members persevered in this the Community of their profession for the rest of their lives. (Details from Dom Aelred Baker’s ‘Why did we do it?’ (2013)
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Caldey, Prinknash and Nashdom – A Shared Pictorial History
by Richard Barton
CALDEY 1906-1928
I have tried to limit these to the Benedictine period as there are numerous cards dating from
the Cistercian years which commence in January 1929.
Published by the Church Association
Of the thirty-three members of the Caldey Community in 1913 twenty six were eventually
received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, twenty of them on 5th March.
Five others – one a novice and two oblates – (including Denys Prideaux) remained Anglicans
until they died. The religious affiliation of the other two is not known. Only eight of the original
members persevered in this the Community of their profession for the rest of their lives.
(Details from Dom Aelred Baker’s ‘Why did we do it?’ (2013)
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Postcard photo taken on the day after the conversion – 6th March 1913 – showing the monks
in their pre-conversion habits. Centre leading from left. Abbot Butler (Downside), Abbot
Carlyle (Caldey) Archbishop Mostyn, Abbot Marmion (Maredsous) Dom Bede Camm
(Maredsous) centre in white – Dom Leo Packer (Chant Master)
Postcard of Clifton Cathedral sent to Brother Laurence Gibling in January 1914
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Dom Aelred Carlyle, Abbot of Painsthorpe (1902-1906) and Caldey (1906-1921)
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Abbot Aelred (Benjamin Fernley Carlyle) 1874-1955
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PERSHORE 1914-1926
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NASHDOM 1926-1987
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PRINKNASH 1928-
The Benedictines of Caldey arrived at Prinknash Park on 6th October 1928.
A Collection of annotated postcards sent to the Lady Abbess of Oulton, in Staffordshire, by
Rev. Dom Lawrence O.S.B.
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‘East front – entrance for seculars and to Priory and Church (on right)’
‘North West side – enclosure’
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‘East front and entrance – bells (brought from Caldey) on right’
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‘View from lower avenue – North side of Monastery and steps. The bay window of the choir’
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‘South West – avenue to East entrance’
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‘South side windows of lay-brothers’ Common Room and Dormitory. Refectory below road-
level, on this side’
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‘The Calvary in the Cemetery (recently put up) by the grave of Dom Gilbert Thomas – the
first to die here in July last year’
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‘South West’
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‘Choir and High Altar – frontal of carved and gilded wood – usually covered with silk frontals
of colour of the day. Plain stone underneath. Tabernacle veiled. Tomb of Mr. Dyer-Edwardes
in Sacristy’
‘Sanctuary and Tomb of Mr. D. E. The wall and door at end have gone! The choir is now
twice as big.’
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‘The Choir – as it used to be! The door opened into a kind of “ante-choir” and the Sacristy’
A second set of annotated postcards:
‘West side – Enclosure (original entrance)’
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‘North side – from terrace steps’
‘East side – General entrance (original back entrance)’
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‘Tabernacle – Note its position and covering’
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‘Prior’s Stall (with canopy) on left – formerly Stall of “Father Ignatius” at Llanthony’
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‘XV or XVI century oak statue given by Mrs. Sutcliffe (nee More-Waterton), a descendent of
Sir Thomas More’
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‘Sacristy and entrance hall – Note how spaciousness is given with the neat arrangement’
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‘Formerly, a passage, laundry and coal-cellar!’
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Sent Sept 5th 1951
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‘Tabernacle – note its covering. It may be said of the whole that there is scarcely a more
beautiful altar existing in Europe today’
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Dom Benedict Steuart, Prior of Prinknash 1928-1937
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Abbot Wilfrid Upson with Mother Agnes Finnegan O.S.B., Abbess of Kylemore Abbey,
Ireland
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‘The Abbot of Prinknash on the Solemnity of St, Joseph. Note the magnificent vestments and
exquisite mitre’
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31st January 1938, Fort Augustus Inverness-shire, Postmark
