| 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 |
| Website | |
| Alternative names | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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