Prinknash
St Peter's Grange, Prinknash Abbey
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| Order | Benedictine, Subiaco Congregation |
| Established | 681 at Gloucester as St. Peter's Abbey |
| Disestablished | 1539 |
| Reestablished | 1928 |
| Mother house | Benedictine monks of Caldey Island |
| Diocese | Diocese of Clifton (Roman Catholic Church) |
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| Founder(s) | Abbot Serlo (1072-1104), re-founded under Ælred Carlyle (1928) |
| Important associated figures | Dom Bede Griffiths, Ælred Carlyle, Stephen Horton |
Prinknash Abbey (/ˈprɪnɪdʒ/) is a Roman Catholic monastery in the Vale of Gloucester in the Diocese of Clifton, near the village of Cranham. It belongs to the English Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Benedictine Congregation, which is itself part of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation.
For nearly 900 years the land known as Prinknash (locally pronounced “Prinich” or “Prinish”) has been associated with Benedictine monks. In 1096 the Giffard family, who had come to England with William the Conqueror, made a gift of the land to Serlo, Abbot of Saint Peter's, Gloucester. A large part of the present building was built during the abbacy of William Parker, the last Abbot of Gloucester, around the year 1520.
It remained in the abbey's hands until the suppression of the monasteries in 1539 when it was rented from the Crown by Sir Anthony Kingston who was to provide 40 deer annually to King Henry VIII, who used the House as a hunting lodge. Prinknash Park continued to be used as a home for the gentry and nobility of Gloucestershire during the next few centuries and each generation left its mark on the property.
On 1 August 1928 a Deed of Covenant was made out by the twentieth Earl of Rothes, the grandson of Thomas Dyer Edwards, a Catholic convert, whose wish was that Prinknash should be given to the Benedictine monks of Caldey Island. These monks had converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1913 under the leadership of Abbot Ælred Carlyle, although he left monastic life in 1921 to work as a missionary priest in Vancouver.
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