. The Benedictines of Caldey Island (formerly of Painsthorpe, York) : containing the history, purpose, method, and summary of the rule of the Benedictines of the Isle of Caldey, S. Wales . raised against it in the sixteenth century,when the Monks were dispossessed, their Monastery seized,and their praise silenced. Was it well ? this rude severance with the past! Thisbreaking up of nearly a thousand years of the Rule of theDisciplined Life! This sudden and complete abandonmentof a flock that had never known aught but the ministrationsof the Caldey Monks—the Island having been always extra-dioce
. The Benedictines of Caldey Island (formerly of Painsthorpe, York) : containing the history, purpose, method, and summary of the rule of the Benedictines of the Isle of Caldey, S. Wales . raised against it in the sixteenth century,when the Monks were dispossessed, their Monastery seized,and their praise silenced. Was it well ? this rude severance with the past! Thisbreaking up of nearly a thousand years of the Rule of theDisciplined Life! This sudden and complete abandonmentof a flock that had never known aught but the ministrationsof the Caldey Monks—the Island having been always extra-diocesan—and thenceforth has had few to care for it! Surelyit is a pitiable thing that with the passing of the Monks therepassed the care of the Church from Caldey! Can this makeChristian men love the Dissolution ? Is there another placein all our country of which such a tale could be told ? Of the days that are gone some simple and rough remainsstill exist. A leaning Tower stands at the west end of theprimitive Nave and Chancel of the little Priory Church built * We are indebted to Professor Young Evans for some of the abovehistorical notes on Caldey in Celtic times. J> 44 &. Chancel of the Priory Church, Caldey To face page 44 Gbe 3sle of Caloeg by the Benedictines. On the north, forming a Cloister-garthabout 27 feet square, lie the remnants of the Monasterybuildings :—the Undercroft, a narrow Turret Stairway lead-ing thence to the Dormitory and the Abbots Room above,the Refectory, the Calefactory, the Gate House, and littlemore—and these but small, rude in structure, unskilled indesign — the work of a primitive people, in a primitiveage, dwelling in a remote Island, far from the influencewhich the architects of the period were exercisingelsewhere. The remains of the Priory are small,for they were only intended in Benedictine times forabout thirteen Monks. Some of the buildings wereerected in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries, and atthe time of the Dissolution w
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