Turvey
Turvey Abbey

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Turvey Abbey is a Jacobean House, with dates 1603 and 1608.  It is a gabled and quite irregular house made interesting by the balustrades and pinnacles brought from Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire.

Turvey Abbey was the home of the Higgins family and although always called Turvey Abbey, the property had no religious connections until 1980 when it was purchased by a Roman Catholic order of Benedictine Nuns and Monks.  The building is now called The Priory of Our Lady of Peace.

Sources

• The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough by Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968

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Turvey Abbey, by Bedfordshire Libraries, 2007

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