St Mary's Abbey

#2503 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Saint Mary's Abbey in Colwich, Staffordshire was a monastery of Roman Catholic nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation, founded in 1623 at Cambrai, Flanders, in the Spanish Netherlands, and closed down in 2020. During the French Revolution, the community was expelled from France and settled at The Mount, Colwich, in 1836, where it remained for the next 84 years. ()

Established: 1623 (401 years ago)Coordinates: 52°47'24"N, 1°59'22"W

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+44 1889 881282

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St Mary's Abbey – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire County Museum, Essex Bridge, Haywood Junction.

1.2 miNW
Museum, Historical place, History museum
Shugborough Hall, Stafford
31 min walk • Shugborough Hall, a quintessential example of a stately home in Great Haywood, is nestled within the lush English countryside of Stafford, United Kingdom. This grand estate, replete with classic Georgian architecture, offers a glimpse into the opulent lifestyle of the...
1.2 miNW
Museum
Staffordshire County Museum
31 min walk • Staffordshire County Museum is housed in the Servants' Quarters of Shugborough Hall, Milford, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The museum features a restored Victorian kitchen, laundry and brewhouse as well as permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
1.1 miNW
Bridge
Essex Bridge
28 min walk • Essex Bridge is a Grade I listed packhorse bridge over the River Trent near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England. Spanning the Trent 100 metres downstream of its confluence with the River Sow, it was built in the late sixteenth century by the Earl of Essex a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I.
1.1 miNW
Canal
Haywood Junction
29 min walk • Haywood Junction, or Great Haywood Junction, is the name of the canal junction where the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal terminates and meets the Trent and Mersey Canal near to the village of Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England.
1.2 miNW
Tomb
Shugborough inscription
32 min walk • The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin's painting the Shepherds of Arcadia.
0.8 miNW
Canal
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
21 min walk • The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a navigable narrow canal in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the English Midlands.
1.3 miNW
Canal
Black country ring
33 min walk • The Black Country Ring is a UK canal ring composed of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Birmingham Main Line, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Coventry Canal and Trent and Mersey Canal.