A community of 22 nuns in Wales have just held a public auction of many of their monastery’s belongings as they await an imminent move which will see them exchange a rural lifestyle for city living. The Poor Clare Colettine Community has been in Hawarden for ninety years but in the face of mounting bills to restore and maintain their property they have discerned that the time is right to move to a Poor Clare community attached to a parish in Nottingham shire. The sale of their belongings, in July, was billed as a “unique, unrepeatable, amateur auction of ancient furniture, doubtful works of art, nunny junk, cloistered clutter, and really useful odds and ends.
The Monastery has since been demolished to make way for a new housing plot, we at Roy walker furniture have salvaged tonnes of the 200 year old wood that was used to build the monastery, the wood is of very high quality and looks outstanding!
Its story’s like this that make us proud to produce Genuine Reclaimed wood furniture, anyone can buy new wood and uninteresting furniture with no history known as – Plank – scaffold board – “so called rustic” but our wood is unmatched and the quality far surpasses our competition.
