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Curzon Park Abbey
Monastery information
Location within Cheshire
Full name	Curzon Park Abbey
Order	Benedictine
Established	24 June 1868
Dedicated to	Our Lady Help of Christians
Diocese	Shrewsbury
Controlled churches	Curzon Park Abbey
People
Founder(s)	Mother Hilda Stewart
Site
Location	Curzon Park, Chester, England
Coordinates	53°10′51″N 2°54′14″W / 53.180833°N 2.903889°W / 53.180833; -2.903889

Curzon Park Abbey is one of three monasteries of nuns in the English Benedictine Congregation.

History

It began as an Anglican Benedictine convent at Feltham, Middlesex, founded by Father Ignatius on 24 June 1868. Feltham Priory, or Feltham Nunnery, was dedicated to Saints Mary and Scholastica (twin sister of St Benedict).

The community spent 5 years in Feltham before moving to Twickenham, West Malling and Milford Haven before settling in Talacre, North Wales in 1920, having been received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1913. In 1921, the nuns were accepted as members of the English Benedictine Congregation, thus inheriting a venerable tradition and a more deeply rooted Catholic identity. The changes heralded by Vatican II led to an increasing simplification in the style of monastic life. The present Community is responding to the call for renewal within the Church, and finding an authentic role in society today.

In July 1988 the community of nuns moved to a much smaller property in Curzon Park, Chester, where they also have a small retreat house. The main Abbey building is a converted late 19th Century mansion constructed mainly of red brick. A chapel was built on the Curzon Park Abbey site in 1997.

References

^ William Page, ed. (1911). "Spelthorne Hundred: Feltham". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 15 April 2011.

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Independent houses	Ampleforth Abbey Belmont Abbey Buckfast Abbey Curzon Park Abbey Douai Abbey Downside Abbey Ealing Abbey Jamberoo Abbey Kylemore Abbey Mariavall Abbey Portsmouth Abbey St. Anselm's Abbey St. Louis Abbey Stanbrook Abbey Worth Abbey
Dependent houses	Priory of the Incarnation Monastery of Christ the Word
Schools	Ampleforth College Douai School Downside School Portsmouth Abbey School St. Anselm's Abbey School St Benedict's School St. Louis Priory School Worth School
Former houses	Colwich Abbey Fort Augustus Abbey Lamspringe Abbey Sherborne Abbey Westminster Abbey
Churches	Church of Our Lady and St Michael, Abergavenny St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford St Wulstan's Church, Little Malvern Church of St Mary and St Michael, Llanarth Church of the Holy Ghost, Midsomer Norton St Begh's Church, Whitehaven
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v t e Monasteries in Cheshire
Augustinian	Mobberley Priory Norton Priory Runcorn Priory
Benedictine	Chester Abbey Chester, St John the Baptist Abbey Chester Priory Curzon Park Abbey Saighton Grange
Brothers of Penitence	Chester Friars of the Sack
Carmelite	Chester Whitefriars
Cistercian	Combermere Abbey Darnhall Abbey Poulton Abbey Stanlow Abbey Stanney Grange Vale Royal Abbey
Dominican	Chester Blackfriars
Franciscan	Chester Franciscan Friary Chester Greyfriars
Savigniac	Combermere Abbey Poulton Abbey
Independent or Unknown	Chester, St Michael's Monastery
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Bishops of Shrewsbury I: James Brown II: Edmund Knight III: John Carroll IV: Samuel Allen V: Hugh Singleton VI: Ambrose Moriarty VII: John Murphy VIII: William Grasar IX: Joseph Gray X: Brian Noble XI: Mark Davies
Churches Shrewsbury Cathedral – Cathedral Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and Saint Peter of Alcantara Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Birkenhead St Werburgh, Birkenhead St Columba, Chester St Francis, Chester St Werburgh, Chester St Mary, Congleton St Mary, Crewe St Mary of the Angels, Hooton St Alban, Macclesfield St Mary, Madeley St Cuthbert by the Forest, Mouldsworth St Peter and St Paul, New Brighton St Peter and St Paul, Newport St Anne, Rock Ferry St Winefride, Sandbach Our Lady and the Apostles, Stockport St Joseph, Stockport English Martyrs, Wallasey Our Lady Star of the Sea, Wallasey St Alban, Wallasey
Patronal Feasts of the Diocese Our Lady, Help of Christians (24 May) Saint Winefride (3 November)
Schools All Hallows Catholic College, Macclesfield All Saints Catholic College, Dukinfield Aquinas College, Stockport Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England Academy Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, Warrington Chester Catholic High School Ellesmere Port Catholic High School Harrytown Catholic High School Holy Trinity Academy, Telford Loreto Grammar School Moor Park School St Ambrose College St Anselm's College St Gregory's Catholic High School St James' Catholic High School, Stockport St John Plessington Catholic College St Nicholas Catholic High School St Paul's Catholic High School St Thomas More Catholic School, Crewe
See also Diocese of Shrewsbury Lourdes Hospitalité Diocese of Shrewsbury Lourdes Pilgrimage Curzon Park Abbey
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