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St Mary, Woolhampton, Roman Catholic

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St Mary (part of Douai Abbey),
Woolhampton

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Cemeteries

The church has/had a graveyard.

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Church History

It was founded before 1693. Douai Abbey was founded in Paris in 1615, following the suppression of the English Benedictine abbeys by Henry VIII, 1436-1540, and after the death of the last Westminster Abbey monk in 1603. The Community survived in Paris until the French Revolution, when the resident Community was imprisoned, but freed in 1794. It then re-established itself in Douai, in northern France, in 1818, and was there for nearly a century until in 1903 it returned to England, to Woolhampton, taking over St Mary’s College, Woolhampton, where it survives until today.

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Church Records

Records at Douai Abbey

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Maps

It is located at SU5769868079 (Lat/Lon 51.408809, -1.171831). You can see this on maps provided by:

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