Downside - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 1113

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

DOWNSIDE. - Monastery of St. Gregory of the Benedictine Order of the English Congregation, founded at Douai in 1605, whence the monks were sent as missionaries to England; six of them were martyred by the Protestants and subsequently beatified by Pius IX.
The monastery at Douai, closed in 1795 because of the French Revolution, was re-established at D., near Bath in Somersetshire (diocese of Clifton), in 1814, and as an abbey at the beginning of the twentieth century. One of the works to which it has

Article illustration — (by courtesy of Prof. E. Josi) DOWNSIDE - Church of S. Gregorio, consecrated in 1935. North aisle.

The education of youth has always been a concern of the community; at present the schools number about 600 young people.

The abbey church of S. Gregorio was consecrated in 1935.

The abbey of D. has included card. Fr. A. Gasquet (v.), the archbishop of Birmingham W. B. Ullathorne, G. B. Polding, archbishop of Didney and apostle of Australia, and the abbots A. Butler and J. Chapman. D. founded the priory of Ealing, now independent, and that of Worth in Sussex.

BIBL.: F. Barton, The benedictine almanac and guide to abbeys... of the english Congregation, London 1926; The D. review, single centenary issue, Downside 1914; F. A. Gasquet, The makers of St. Gregory's D. in England under the old religion and other essays, London 1912, pp. 263-87; Cortineau, I, col. 998. Ruggero Buona.