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CONVENTS AND NUNNERIES

CARMELITE CONVENT

Updated:  01 October 2011 

A large gathering witnessed the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Bourne, perform the canonical imposition of enclosure at the new Carmelite Convent, Efford, near Plymouth, on Wednesday September 3rd 1919.  Also present was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth, Doctor Keily.  [1]

The Carmelite Order had taken over the former Efford Manor House in the Anglican parish of Eggbuckland.  After a procession, headed by the ladies of the Convent and the clergy, had passed through the House and grounds to the main gates, the double gates were closed and locked from the inside.  [1]

There was a Convent Lodge at the entrance between numbers 159 and 161 Pike Road, where Mr Kerslake Sargent lived in the mid 1950s.  [2]

Sources:

[1]  "New Convent at Efford Manor: Cardinal Bourne on Rare Ceremony: Prayer and Peace", Western Morning News, Plymouth, September 4th 1919.

[2]  "Kelly's Post Office Directory of Plymouth and District 1955", Kelly's Directories Ltd, London, 1955.

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