Ealing Abbey

The Monks Choir beyond the crossing and Lady Chapel were added in 1996-98 to the designs of Sir William Whitfield.

The single hammerbeam nave roof has a painted decoration, with the monograms IHC and SB (for St Benedict).

The large west window, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin attended by the heavenly host, is by Burlison and Grylls.

[4] The window in the south transept, a memorial to victims of two world wars, is by Ninian Comper and William Bucknall (c.1960).

Ealing Abbey Choir of boys' and men's voices sings at the Sunday Conventual Mass.

Those members available also sing periodically at a local care home for elderly people suffering from dementia.

In April 2006, civil damages were awarded jointly against David Pearce, a former head of the junior school at St Benedicts, and Ealing Abbey in the High Court in relation to an alleged assault by Pearce on a pupil while teaching at St Benedict's School in the 1990s, although criminal charges were dropped.

[14][15] In March 2011, Dom Laurence Soper, a former Abbot of Ealing Abbey,[16] was arrested on child abuse charges relating to the period when he was a teacher at, and the bursar of, St Benedict's School.

[20] Following these incidents and other alleged offences, Abbot Shiperlee commissioned a report from Lord Carlile of Berriew with a view to making recommendations on the School's governance.

[21] As a result of the changes made the Independent Schools Inspectorate said in its 2013 inspection report that the pastoral care at St Benedict's was excellent.

[22] In 2018-2019, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was investigating institutional failures to protect children from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, including complaints about Catholic schools and specifically investigations at Ealing Abbey and St Benedict's school.

[23] In February 2019, Martin Shipperlee, abbot of Ealing Abbey, resigned over a failure to investigate child sexual abuse allegations.

The studies pursued now focus upon Sacred Liturgy and the Liberal Arts, including theology [25] (go to directory of institutions) and both modern and classical languages, of which the Latin summer school has become a regular feature of the annual programme.

The Benedictine Institute, an umbrella for The Liturgy Institute of England and Wales (Institutum Liturgicum),[26] St Bede Library, Ealing Abbey Pottery and London Spring are housed in Overton House, a Victorian mansion property in Castlebar Road adjacent to the Abbey built by John M. Bartholomew[citation needed], son of the founder of John Bartholomew and Son, the map-maker and publisher of atlases; the name of "J.M.

[28] The UK arm of the project, Appreciating the Liturgy (based on the encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia),[29] founded and directed by James Leachman and Daniel McCarthy, a monk of St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, has been housed since 2009 in the former "Scriptorum" at the Centre, originally established by Bernard Orchard in 2003.

Nave of the Church of Saint Benedict, part of the abbey