Ampleforth Abbey
| Ampleforth Abbey | |
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| The Abbey Church of St Laurence, Ampleforth | |
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 Ampleforth Abbey
Location of within North Yorkshire
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| Coordinates: 54°12′06″N 1°05′05″W / 54.2018°N 1.0847°W | |
| OS grid reference | SE5980678828 |
| Location | Ampleforth, North Yorkshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Website | Abbey.Ampleforth.org.uk |
| History | |
| Founded | 1802 |
| Founder(s) | Lady Anne Fairfax |
| Dedication | St Lawrence the Martyr |
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| Status | Abbey |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 9 September 1985 |
| Administration | |
| Deanery | Central |
| Diocese | Middlesbrough |
| Province | Liverpool |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Rt. Rev. Terence Drainey |
| Abbot | Fr Cuthbert Madden OSB |
Ampleforth Abbey is a monastery of Benedictine Monks a mile to the east of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England, part of the English Benedictine Congregation. It claims descent from the pre-Reformation community at Westminster Abbey through the last surviving monk from Westminster Sigebert Buckley (c. 1520 - c. 1610). The current Abbot is Fr. Cuthbert Madden, and the Prior is Fr Terence Richardson.
The Abbey was founded in a house given to Father Anselm Bolton by The Honorable Anne Fairfax, daughter of Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley. This house was taken over by Dr. Brewer, President of the Congregation, 30 July 1802. The community, since leaving Dieulouard in Lorraine, where its members had joined with Spanish and Cassinese Benedictines to form the monastery of St Laurence, had been successively at Acton Burnell, Tranmere, Scholes, Vernon Hall, and Parbold Hall, under its superior Dr. Marsh.
On its migration to Ampleforth Lodge, Dr. Marsh remained at Parbold and Father Appleton was elected the first prior of the new monastery. Shortly afterwards Parbold was broken up and the boys of the school there transferred to Ampleforth. The priory was erected into an abbey, in 1890, by the Bull "Diuquidem". and has an important and flourishing college attached to it. John Cuthbert Hedley, Bishop of Newport, was an alumnus, as well a superior of Ampleforth, Abbot Smith. The monastery was finished in 1897.
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