DOUAI ABBEY HISTORY

Aspects of Douai

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Fig. 1. A waterpcolour of 1849 showing the new Pugin chapel behind the earlier ruined chapel.

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Fig. 2. Henry Parker (1752 - 1817) Prior of St Edmund's Paris.

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Fig.3. Old Douai: Monastery and College in the ninteenth century.


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Fig. 4. Paris 1701. A monk prays before the catafalque of King James II.

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Fig. 5. Scroll from 'the Catholics of England' presented to the Douai community at Charing Cross on their return to England, 18 June 1903.

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Fig.6. The blessing of the Ward Cloister, Douai, 1896, by Bishop Austin O'Neill.


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Fig. 7. The first prospectus for the School, 1909.

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Fig. 8. The new (1909) lavatory block cutting across the Beenham path.


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Fig.9. Douai School, c 1909: the monk prefects and some of the students.

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Fig. 10. The School Tower, c 1910.

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Fig. 11. The May Altar in the Study Hall, c 1910.


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Fig.12. End of Term: Midgham Station, c 1910.

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Fig. 13. Midgham Station 1986.


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Fig. 14. The abbatial blessing of Abbot Taylor in St Mary's,
January 1906.

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Fig.15. Feast to mark the opening of the Refectory, 1916.


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