Saturday 4 October 2025 – Study Day at Malling Abbey, Kent

Malling Abbey/St Benedict’s Centre,

52 Swan Street, West Malling, Kent, ME19 6JX

Programme of events 10:00am – 4:00pm

10:00am:  Arrival and tea/coffee in the St Eanswythe Room, Malling Abbey

10:30am: Welcome by Michael Burgess, President of the Hopkins Society UK

10:40am:  ‘Grace in the works of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins’
Professor Emma Mason (Warwick University)

11:40am: Tea/coffee break

12:00pm: ‘Milicent Hopkins and Anglican Sisterhoods’
Michael Burgess (Hopkins Society UK)

1:00pm:    Lunch

2:00pm:    Tour of Malling Abbey and grounds (a community of Anglican Benedictine Nuns)

3:00pm:    ‘Hopkins: Medieval Architecture and Monasticism’
Jill Robson (Hopkins Society UK)

4:00pm:    Tea/coffee and departure

COST: £40 per person inclusive of lunch and tea/coffee, and £20 for students (full-time education or theological training).

CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION: 21 September 2025. 

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT: Please complete the booking form here Booking Form and return it to Philip Healy, Treasurer: hopsoctreasurer@gmail.com