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3 unusual facts about Gorton Monastery


Gorton Monastery

In the 1970s E.T. Spashett, consultant architect to the Benedictines and architect of the Church Army Chapel, Blackheath, re-designed the accommodation over the cloisters, combining cells to make small dormitories and studies, and designing a new iron gate for the cloisters.

In 1997, Gorton Monastery was placed on the World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites in the World alongside Pompeii, the Taj Mahal and the Valley of the Kings.

Joseph McCabe

He entered the Franciscan order at the age of 15, and spent a year of preliminary study at Gorton Monastery.



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