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A Benedictine Monastery west of Ryde.

The current abbey dates from the early 20th Century. A group of monks arrived from Solesmes in France in 1901 and initially rented Appledurcombe House in the south of the island. In 1907 they bought Quarr Abbey House, adjacent to the ruins of the old abbey and one of their number, Dom Paul Bellot, who was an architect, was tasked with designing a monastery and church. Work started on the refectory, dormitory chapter house and part of the cloisters in 1907 and on the abbey church in April 1911, this being consecrated on 12 October 1912. The entrance block, guest accommodation and the remainder of the cloisters were built in 1914. Built of Flemish brick, the Abbey was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "among the most daring and successful church buildings of the early 20th century in England". It continues to serve as a monastery, with a small community of around 12 monks.

Grade I listed – see Link.

Nearby are the ruins of the Abbey of Our Lady and St John, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1132. Although a religious establishment it was heavily fortified, including the earliest gun ports in Britain, thought to date from the 1360s. It grew into one of the largest religious houses on the Isle of Wight. Following the dissolution in the 16th Century, the buildings were partly dismantled, with the stone being used elsewhere on the island, at Cowes and Yarmouth.