DOUAI ABBEY

Monastery Building Development 13



Sept 10
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A view of the new guest house corridor.
The oak tree quadrangle seen from the new guest conference room.

Sept 16

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The machinery in position to begin putting tarmac
on the new kitchen road.
Work in progress; workmen are also fixing
a drain pipe on the 'ark'.
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Two views of the tarmac being rolled, showing the monastery side,
and the apartment (former school) side.

Sept 18
Today the community left the temporary portacabin kitchen and refectory and used the new guest refectory for the first time at lunch, the monastic refectory not yet being completed. Pictures of the guest refectory and kitchen.
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Oct 9
Work began last week on the main entrance to the monastery, walls were demolished and floor taken up in the reception area. To the right are the bursar's and parish offices temporally cut off from the rest of the building and accessible through a temporary door from the new kitchen road; to the left is the guesthouse entrance and Pastoral Programme office.
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