Yorkshire abbey that is 'world’s first eco-friendly nunnery' – in pictures
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Stanbrook Abbey is located in the North York Moors national park and claims to be the world's first environmentally friendly nunnery. Designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios at a total cost of 7.5m, it features solar panels, rainwater harvesting and a sedum roof. The nuns relocated from a Grade-II listed church in Worcestershire that had proved to be uneconomical and unmanageable
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