Our Region's Religious History Is Being Lost ; Large Historic Buildings Are Being Lost Across the Midlands As a Growing Number of Religious Retreats Are Put Up for Sale, As Sarah Probert Discovered

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With its spectacular chapel, the dramatic gothic building nestling in the Malvern Hills has been part of Worcestershire's history since the 19th century.

Stanbrook Abbey, with its vaulted church built in 1871 by EW Pugin, has been home to a group of Benedictine nuns since they fled war-ravaged France in 1838.

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Our Region's Religious History Is Being Lost ; Large Historic Buildings Are Being Lost Across the Midlands As a Growing Number of Religious Retreats Are Put Up for Sale, As Sarah Probert Discovered

But now the fabric of the building, with its glorious cloisters reminiscent of their medieval predecessors and wonderful moulded cross arches and period floor tiling, could be lost forever.

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