Fig. 16.Laying of the foundatiion stone of the Abbey Church
by Bishop Cotter of Portsmouth,
18 June 1928.
Fig. 17. The first Mass in the Abbey Church, 20 June 1933.
Fig.18. Aerial view of Douai Abbey and School, Upper Woolhampton, 1934.
Fig. 19. Ditcham Father, c. 1948. From l. to r. Clement Herlihy,
Aphonsus Tierney, Edward Fairhead,
Jerome Richardson.
Fig. 20. Ditcham Park, c. 1950.
Fig.21. The triumphant return of Fr Ignatius Rice from the U.S.A.,
June 1950.
Fig. 22. The Community and the Douai Society celebrating fifty years at Woolhampton, 1953.
Fig. 23. Archbishop Cardinale blessing the foundation stone of the new monastery in the
presence of Abbot Sylvester Mooney and the architect, Frederick Gibberd, 1964.
Fig.24. Abbot Laurence Larkin (1900 - 03).
Fig. 25. Abbot Ambrose Bamford (1904 - 05).
Fig. 26. Abbot Stanislaus Taylor (1905 - 13).
Fig.27. Abbot David Hurley (1913 - 21).
Fig. 28. Abbot Edmund Kelly (1921 - 9).
Fig. 29. Abbot Sylvester Mooney (1929 - 69) in the full glory of his cappa magna, 1961.
