Caldey, Prinknash and Nashdom – A Shared Pictorial History

A selection of items from my Postcard and Photograph Collection:

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.

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)

PERSHORE 1914-1926

NASHDOM 1926-1987

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.

A second set of annotated postcards:

Abbot

For more information:-

Fr. Aelred Baker, ‘Why did we do it? – The story of the Caldey Conversions in 1913’,Centenary Booklet 1913-2013

Fr. Aelred Baker, ‘The Floodgates of Memory – The Life of Abbot Aelred Carlyle and Community, 2009

Fr. Aelred Baker, ‘All those years in Exile – The Life of Abbot Aelred Carlyle and his Community (1914-1955), 2010

Pluscarden Abbey, ‘The Caldey Conversion – A Contemporary Chronicle, 2013

Aidan Harker, ‘Anglican Abbot: Dom Denys Prideaux, 2016, Anglo-Catholic History Society

For Comments and Further discussion:

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/10/historical-images-of-english.html

‘Thanks to New Liturgical Movement’

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See ‘St Bernard’s Monastery, Little Guiting’:

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