Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Ed
Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd CBE was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer. He is particularly known for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, his work in Harlow, Essex, and for the wi
Douai Abbey
…completed in 1993 due to financial constraints. The monastery was greatly expanded in the 1960s with the building of the new monastery designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd. The abbey had in its charge Douai School until the latter's closure in 1999. In 2005, two monks returned to Douai, France to form a community there…