Appuldurcombe House
Appuldurcombe House is a ruined castle near Wroxall on the Isle of Wight .
history
Some of the people associated with the castle include Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, and Seymour Dorothy Fleming . After the death of Sir Richard, the building became the property of his niece, who was married to the second baron and first earl of Yarborough. The family's association with the property ended in 1855 when the second Earl of Yarborough sold it.
In the years 1901-1907, the castle served as a refuge for the monks of the Congregation of Solesmes, who were expelled from France . The founding abbot of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes Abbey, Prosper-Louis-Pascal Guéranger , envisaged England as a place of refuge in case the monks had to go into exile. Since 1896, at the invitation of the former Empress Eugénie , the Congregation had the former Premonstratensian Abbey of Saint Michael's Abbey in Farnborough (Hampshire) , where Napoleon III. had been buried when piracy was taken over.
In August 1901, the monks signed a lease for Appuldurcombe House and immediately began the move so that by September 21, 1901 almost the entire congregation had arrived here.
From September 6 to 9, 1904, the Vatican Commission met here to develop the new official edition of the Gregorian chant of the Roman Catholic Church , the Editio Vaticana .
In the summer of 1907, the monks around their brother, the architect Paul Bellot, began building the Quarr Abbey from here, to which they moved just a year later.
The castle was destroyed on February 7, 1943 when a German Dornier Do 217 dropped a sea mine . After that, the interior was not rebuilt.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://quarrabbey.org/site.php?menuaccess=29
- ^ Pierre Combe: The Restoration of Gregorian Chant: Solesmes and the Vatican Edition .
- ^ Dom Paul Delatte .
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 1 ° 14 ′ 1.2 ″ W.