Stanbrook Abbey is a new home for the Conventus of Our Lady of Consolation, a Benedictine community of nuns who devote their lives to study, work and prayer. Relocating from their old Victorian home in Worcestershire, the nuns? contemplative way of life required spaces that were simple, tranquil and beautiful, or as they put it in their monastic vision brief ? a place where they could ?pray always?.

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Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Location: West Yorkshire, UK

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Tim Crocker, Peter Cook

Client: Conventus of our lady of Consolation, Stanbrook Abbey

Main Contractor: William Birch Construction ? Phase 1 QSP Construction ? Phase 2
Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon - Phase 1, Richard Cavadino - Phase 2

Structural Engineer: Structures One ? Phase 1, Buro Happold ? Phase 2

M&E Engineer: AECOM - Phase 1 , Energy Unique - Phase 2

Project Manager: Davis Langdon LLP - Phase 1, Richard Cavadino - Phase 2

Construction Value: £7,500,000

© Tim Crocker

From the architect. Stanbrook Abbey is a new home for the Conventus of Our Lady of Consolation, a Benedictine community of nuns who devote their lives to study, work and prayer. Relocating from their old Victorian home in Worcestershire, th...