Quarr Abbey: Past and Present by Anon - 1998-01-01

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: (1998)* Publisher: Not known.* Binding and cover condition: B/w photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear and a few slight marks. Back cover slightly creased. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Several b/w photo-illustrations & line drawn maps.* Pages: 20 pp. text.* Product Description:- A brief historical sketch in two sections. The first part deals with pre-reformation history of the original abbey from 1132-1536. Founded by Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, formed the Benedictine foundation under the Abbot Gervase of Savigny in Normandy. It was a sizeable community and developed the Areton Valley which was not the easiest of landscapes. However they became sizeable enough to send out colonies of monks for foundations at Stanley in Wiltshire in 1154 and later at Buckland in Devonshire in 1278. It prospered until July 1536 after an existence of ust ovr 400 years. The second part of this booklet covers the Modern Quarr founded 1908 by brothers of the order founded by Dom Gueranger from Sable near LeMans. This order was dissolved the Law of The Separation of Church and State introduced by the French State in 1906 and it was a consequence of this legislation that so many French orders of teaching brothers and nuns found shelter on the south coast of England, in Jersey and the Isle of Wight. The foundation continues today and is offices are still celebrated throughout the day.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st thus with minimal faults reducing it to VG*