Most popularly known today as the Redemptoristine Convent, this building has been known to generations of Chudleigh people as Syon Abbey - or just 'the Abbey'
It was built by the Brigittine Nuns on a site given to them by Mr. Evan Baillie of Filleigh, and they moved into their new Convent on June 16th 1887.
The building is of local limestone, though the front has been rough cast as an added defence against the strong south west wind and rain.
In 1925 the Brigittine nuns moved to Marley, South Brent, and sold the property to the Redemptoristine nuns, who came from Clapham, London, to take up residence in November of that year.
