TQ0346 : Greyfriars MonasteryTQ0346 : Greyfriars monastery, BlackheathTQ0346 : Inside St Augustine's Abbey (1)Greyfriars and St Augustine's AbbeyGreyfriars monastery was opened by the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) in 1895. Ian Nairn, in the 1962 Pevsner guide to Surrey, describes the buildings as "simple late Gothic revival stone ... soberly and honestly detailed" with the church and dormitories all under a single roof. The architect was Frederick Arthur Walters, designer of more than fifty churches both for parishes and religious communities, notably including Buckfast Abbey in
SX7467, and the buildings here are listed Grade II by English Heritage.
IN 2011 the buildings were taken over by the Benedictine monks of the Subiaco-Cassinese Congregation, and their monastery is now known as St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth.