Return To England
The Lisbon community returned to England in 1861, settling first in Spetisbury, Dorset, moving in 1887 to Chudleigh, Devon and then in 1925 to its current (2010) location near South Brent, Devon. The religious community, or Convent, of Syon has the distinction of being the only English one that survived the reformation in unbroken form to the present day (2010). In 2004, the remaining mediæval books in the convent's collection were deposited for safe-keeping with the University of Exeter Library. A large piece of sculptured stonework from the monastery's remains was recently returned to them ceremoniously by the Duke of Northumberland, owner of Syon House.
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