Stanbrook Abbey

Stanbrook Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Wass, North Yorkshire, England. The Roman Catholic community was founded in 1625 at Cambrai in Flanders (then part of the Spanish Netherlands, now in France), under the auspices of the English Benedictine Congregation. After being imprisoned during the French Revolution, the surviving nuns fled to England and in 1838 settled at Stanbrook, Callow End, Worcestershire, where a new abbey was built. With the steep contemporary decline in monastic life, the community left their Grade II-listed property, to relocate to Wass in the North York Moors National Park in 2009. Following refurbishment, the former Worcestershire monastic estate has been operated as a luxury hotel since 2015.