Prinknash Benedictine Abbey
The Benedictine Prinknash (English: Prinknash Abbey ) is a since 1928 Convent of the Benedictines in Cranham in Gloucestershire in England.
history
From 1096 to 1541 Prinknash (west of Cranham on the Painswick Road A46) was a residence of the abbots of Gloucester Cathedral Abbey , then in the hands of private owners. When Caldey Abbey, founded by Aelred Carlyle on Caldey Island in 1913, got into financial difficulties, in 1928 it switched to the Prinknash estate donated by the previous owner and occupied St Peter's Grange. There the convent developed so favorably that in 1947 monks could be sent to reinforce the French Saint Michael's Abbey in Farnborough (Hampshire) and in 1948 the subsidiary Pluscarden was founded. The Kristo Buase Monastery was founded in Ghana in 1989 in cooperation with Pluscarden and Saint Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate .
As a result of the positive development, a larger new monastery was built next to the old one, which was occupied in 1972, but had to be cleared again in 2008 because the development of vocations did not keep pace. The convent (12 monks) is currently residing in the old monastery. The abbey belongs to the Congregation of Subiaco and Montecassino .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 21.1 " N , 2 ° 10 ′ 34.2" W.