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Quarr Abbey

A day in Quarr Abbey A white joyful winter with Merry Christmas 23.12.2017

Quarr Abbey Photography

Quarr Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quarr) is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor" (rhyming with "for"). It belongs to the Catholic Order of St Benedict.

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The Grade I listed listed monastic buildings and church, completed in 1912, are considered some of the most important twentieth-century religious structures in the United Kingdom; Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the Abbey as "among the most daring and successful church buildings of the early 20th century in England". They were constructed from Belgian brick in a style combining French, Byzantine and Moorish architectural elements. In the vicinity are a few remains of the original twelfth-century abbey.

A community of fewer than a dozen monks maintains the monastery's regular life and the attached farm.

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The lovely memory in here is little sheep. I came here to visit them many times, talking to them and spending time with them. As I can remember the scene in the novel which is similar to how it describes the alley to an abbey.

A long long way to the entrance...

Little sheep around the alley and I stand there staring at them silently.

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Photographed and designed

by Barbara Wei Dec.2017