Abbeys & priories · South East England
Douai Abbey
Douai Abbey — church in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
- Nearest railway station
- Midgham · 1.5 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Douai Abbey is an abbey, priory, or monastic site in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1903. Built in the Gothic Revival style. Affiliated with Catholicism. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Berkshire, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 51.4092°, -1.1718°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton in 1903 when the community left France as a result of anti-clerical legislation. The abbey church is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.
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Background
History
The community of St. Edmund was formed in Paris in 1615 by Dom Gabriel Gifford, later Archbishop of Rheims and primate of France. With his backing the community flourished. Expelled from Paris during the Revolution, the community took over the vacant buildings of the community of St Gregory's in Douai in 1818. Amid the political upheavals caused by the Dreyfus affair around the turn of the 19th century, the French prime minister Waldeck-Rousseau introduced an anti-clerical Law of Associations (1901) that "severely curbed the influence of religious orders in France". This led to the community being given the minor seminary of St Mary in Woolhampton by Bishop Cahill of Portsmouth, moving from…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4092, -1.1718
- District
- West Berkshire
- Parish
- Woolhampton
- Postcode
- RG7 5TQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire
- Established
- 1903
- Nearest railway station
- Midgham — 1.5 km
- Official site
- www.douaiabbey.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q2820579 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Douai Abbey (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Douai Abbey, geograph.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Douai Abbey?
- Douai Abbey is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode RG7 5TQ), in the parish of Woolhampton.
- When was Douai Abbey built?
- Built or established in 1903.
- Is Douai Abbey a protected site?
- Yes — Douai Abbey is part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Douai Abbey?
- The nearest railway station is Midgham, about 1.5 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode RG7 5TQ.