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Stapehill in Dorset before the Cistercians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Geoffrey Holt S.J.
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The Cistercian nuns of Holy Cross Abbey at Stapehill near Wimborne in Dorset have recently moved and settled in South Wales after more than 180 years in the house given to them in the nineteenth century by Lord Arundell of Wardour, so now is perhaps a suitable time for investigating the story of the place when it was a Jesuit centre for at least 135 years. One of the stations in the ‘College of St. Thomas of Canterbury’ or Hampshire district (which included Hampshire, Wiltshire and Sussex as well as Dorset), others in that part of the district being Lulworth, Wardour, Great Canford, Marnhull, Bonham and Odstock, it was sufficiently isolated and remote for a school to have existed there safely for some years.

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British Catholic History , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , May 1992 , pp. 26 - 39
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973

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Notes

1 Two accounts of the settling of the nuns at Stapehill and their life there have been published—La Trappe in England by a Religious of Holy Cross Abbey (London 1937) and Stapehill, Cistercian Nuns in England (n.d. Holy Cross Abbey, Stapehill, Wimborne, Dorset).

2 Foley, , Records 5, 817 Google Scholar; C.R.S. 43, p. 125.

3 CST ff. 129, 187, 188, 201. ‘Factory’ was used as a code word for a Jesuit district or centre. The accounts preserved in this volume provide valuable evidence of the priests at Stapehill.

4 C.R.S. 70 p. 130.

5 A list is given in Education under Penalty by A. C. F. Beales (London 1963) pp. 249–50. See Roman Archives S.J. Anglia 35.

6 Foley, , Records 5 p. 818.Google Scholar

7 OLIVER, p. 41.

8 As the lease was granted in 1721 Lord Arundell should perhaps have written great-grandfather.

9 C.R.S. 43 p. 126; C.R.S. 70 pp. 118, 179; Foley 7 pp. 361, 548.

10 CST ff. 117, 130 v. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth barons (1712–1808) were all called Henry.

11 C.R.S. 70 p. 200; GST ff. 118, 248 v, 249–50.

12 CST f. 251.

13 CST ff. 104, 258.

14 CST ff. 258, 259.

15 C.R.S. 70 p. 54; CST f. 104.

16 CST f.264; C.R.S.70 p. 82; OLIVER p. 287.

17 CST ff. 217 v, 267. The Hampreston Register of Burials states that his burial was in June 1756 (CST f. 104).

18 CST ff. 268, 269; C.R.S. 70 p. 50.

19 CST ff. 269, 274, 275; C.R.S.70 p. 167.

20 C.R.S. 70 p. 52; OLIVER p. 259; C.R.S. 43 p. 126.

21 CST ff. 274, 276.

22 OLIVER p. 328; C.R.S. 70 p. 120.

23 CST f. 276.

24 Foley, , Records 5 p. 797.Google Scholar

25 Copy in CST f. 171A.

26 Copy in Foley Mss 4 f. 508v.

27 CST f. 126v. September 30th 1799 to John Couche.

28 CST ff. 102, 103, 118, 130 v, 193. See English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 by Estcourt and Payne p. 234.

29 CST f. 171A. This was probably Richard Molyneux who was rector of the College of St. Thomas of Canterbury from c. 1759–65.

30 CST ff. 117, 193.

31 CST f.274.

32 CST ff. 278 ff.

33 CST f. 264.

34 CST f. 171 A.

35 La Trappe in England by a religious of Holy Cross Abbey (London, 1937) pp. 84–5, 91.

36 CST f. 136v

37 EPC f. 165, J. Porter to Couche, April 16th 1795.

38 CST ff. 275–78.

39 CST ff. 121v; 239, 278, 293, 295, 299.

40 CST f. 171 A.

41 CST f. 300v.

42 CST f. 126v.

43 Epc ff. 247–48.

44 CST f. 108; EPC f. 360.

45 C.R.S. 43 p. 134.

46 The French Exiled Clergy by D. A. Bellenger, OSB, (Downside Abbey 1986) pp. 83 ff; La Trappe in England.

47 C.R.S. 43 p. 127.

48 CST ff. 105–6.

49 CST ff. 107, 108. Jean Baptiste ceased to be prior in 1802 (Bellenger op. cit. 86).

50 La Trappe in England, p. 98; Stapehill, Cistercian Nuns in England pp. 6–7.

51 NONJS f. 85.

52 Letters 1773–1804 (APSJ) ff. 297–8.

53 Foley, Mss 4 f. 508v.

54 C.R.S. 43 p. 127. An agreement between Cochet and the nuns is in C.R.S. 43 p. 128.

55 Couche to Strickland CST f. 178; Couche to Cochet CST f. 180; EPC. f. 182.

56 EPC f. 182.

57 Letters 1805–18 (APSJ) p. 48, N. Sewall to W. Clifford.

58 Strickland Letters (APSJ) f. 243v, to M. Stone.

59 NONJS ff. 96–7.

60 NONJS f. 176.

61 EPC ff. 383–5.

62 Strickland Letters f. 251.

63 Stone Letters (APSJ) f. 117, July 20th 1811.

64 C.R.S. 43 pp. 95, 128.

65 CST f. 172.

66 NONJS f. 169, May 9th 1818.

67 Stone’s letter is in Plowden’s Letters (APSJ) f. 421.

68 CST f. 114, November 13th 1820. The letter is incomplete, unaddressed and unsigned.

69 C.R.S. 43 p. 125.

70 CSTf. 185, August 3rd 1825. The gratuitous grant to Stapehill was paid until 1831—Memoranda by George Jenkins (APSJ) DI/2.

71 ‘Stapehill’ by Sydney, F. Smith in The Month, no. 648 (June 1918) p. 500.Google Scholar