It’s a saint’s day celebration in an abbey, but not quite as we know it. Stanbrook Abbey, home to a community of Benedictine nuns for 171 years, now has a new life as a luxury events venue, and to celebrate St Valentine’s Day, romantic dinners à deux are on offer at £49.50 a head, to include a glass of champagne and a four-course gourmet meal. The Stanbrook community relocated to North Yorkshire in 2009, and since then, their picturesque and imposing E.W. Pugin-designed former pile has been extensively renovated and is now described as “the ultimate backdrop for weddings, parties and business functions”. Stanbrook has more than 50 bedrooms including some created from nuns’ cells, and a deconsecrated chapel can be used for weddings – a