St Scholastica's Abbey, Teignmouth
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St Scholastica's Abbey, Teignmouth
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 12 Jan 2022
"Former Benedictine nunnery, now in the course of being adapted to apartments. 1862, by George Goldie" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1269091?section=official-listing . The conversion has been completed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teignmouth_Abbey for an account of the order of nuns who left Dunkirk for Hammersmith after the French Revolution and arrived here in the 1860s.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.556745
Longitude
-3.490702