What is ‘Heritage Open Days’? From the Heritage Open Days website:– ‘Heritage Open Days’ is England’s largest community led festival of history and culture, involving thousands of local volunteers and organisations. Every year in September it brings people together to celebrate their heritage, community and history. Stories are told, traditions…
Our display in the South aisle included:– Information about icon painting and icon tuition can be found on the iconography page of the Turvey Abbey website:–Iconography at Turvey Abbey Hand-made cards, beads and hand-painted tiles are available at Turvey Abbey. Hand-Painted Tiles at Turvey Abbey
An Old House called Turvey Abbey We celebrate the skill and craftsmanship of the many tradesmen who through the centuries have worked on the building known as Turvey Abbey. (Which only became home to a religious community in 1980!) We don’t know when the first house was built on the…
The Chapels at Turvey Abbey As a Benedictine community, the Divine Office (daily services) in the chapel takes the central place in our life. We sing the Office, a cappella or accompanied by zither, guitar, or organ. Some of the music and words were written by members of the community….
At the time of our move to Turvey in 1981, part of our income came from hand-embroidered and hand-woven vestments, and wall-hangings both large and small. Our work was commissioned by many different Christian groups. Some wall-hanging designs were popular with customers and the work-tracing would be reinforced to make…
SISTER REGINA M. RYNJA O.S.B. 1920 – 2001 Sr Regina, Dutch by birth, was an accomplished artist—and a keen gardener. At Turvey she created most, but not all, of the designs and work-drawings for the studio. Her art work was published by both ‘Pauline Books and Media’ and ‘McCrimmon Publishing…
On Easter Monday, the day after Easter Sunday, I rang my brother and wished him a happy Easter. ‘That was yesterday’, he replied. I said that we celebrated it for a whole week. ‘How many Easter eggs can you eat in a week?’ was the reply I got. Actually we…
On behalf of my community at Turvey Abbey I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who contributed to our ‘Clock in Distress’ fund to make it possible to have our two hundred year old tower clock restored. It was 12 December 2022, there was snow on the ground…
I was at All Saints church several times before Br Herbert’s funeral, and while I was there I said hello to one of my favourite dogs. He has been chewing at his mistress’ gown for centuries—it must be good material, he hasn’t made any impression on it so far. I mean,…
Labels, and names, are definitely useful, we couldn’t live without them, but how easy to misunderstand them—or misuse them. Down the road we have a water meter on the pipe that serves the trough in our field—it says ‘one trough’ on the bill. The meter is a challenge to read,…