Last updated |
12th January 2009 |
Name of library |
Downside Abbey |
Address |
Stratton-on-the-Fosse, nr. Bath BA3 4RH |
Telephone |
01761 235155 |
Fax |
01761 235124 |
E-mail |
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Website |
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Alternative names |
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Contact & Job Title |
Dom Daniel Rees |
Purpose & main user community of the library |
Benedictine community of Downside Abbey |
Terms of access |
By appointment |
Opening hours |
Usually 09.30-13.00. Afternoons by appointment |
Disabled access |
Many steps |
Lending to other libraries & visitors |
Not normally. Not normally |
Number of volumes |
150,000 |
Periodicals – Back Issues |
170 |
Current Periodicals |
200 |
Other materials |
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Volumes added per year |
1,000 |
Coverage |
Patristics, monastic history and theology, church history, Byzantine history, recusant literature |
Special Collections |
Edmund Bishop library: liturgy; Gillow library: recusant history; David Rogers library |
Manuscripts |
Acton papers; Gasquet papers; Cuthbert Butler papers |
Research resource |
Monastic liturgy and theology; recusant literature |
Catalogue Type |
Card |
URL of catalogue |
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Other facilities |
Photocopying |
Full Time Staff |
2 |
Part Time Staff |
1 |
Voluntary Staff |
1 |
Changes in next five years affecting the above |
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Anything else about the library |
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