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This is a beautiful place of history., i just had to go have a look about. The place is massive and is made up of three different houses and a church on the one side of the road, and on the other side are again numerous large empty buildings. I was slightly pushed for time and had no idea how big it was so could only do the church side of the road...Luckily when i pulled up the gates where ajar and a builders van was parked in the grounds they where around the side stacking some already removed timbers..the main blue front door was open..Thankyou very kindly
Inside was just brilliant, however nearly all the doors to the rooms the nuns slept in where closed tightly and drilled shut.. Above their doors where their names enscribed in gold.. after several corridors lined with pughs and lovely quaint windows it led to the church.. a windey spiral stone staircase led off that to the gallery above...apologies for not a huge amount of photos but i was rather aware of the builders around the place.
A bit of History
A FORMER convent that was once home to 250 nuns could be converted into 14 houses and apartments.
Plans for the Gospel Centre in Malvern Link, formerly the Convent of the Holy Name, were submitted to the district council this week.
They show the main Georgian-style buildings at the Grade II listed site converted into eight properties, with the Gothic-style chapel becoming two homes with a leisure facility and swimming pool below. Two new properties and 14 double garages would also be built.
A statement from the Day of Salvation Ministries, which currently run the Gospel Centre, said the existing architectural quality and detail of the buildings would be retained.
The statement said the organisation could not indefinitely sustain the monetary and physical demands of maintaining the complex without threatening its work.
"Crusade evangelism in poor countries is expensive and for the work to expand the requisite funding can only be found if the Ministry sells its building assets," said the statement.
The Community of the Holy Name established the convent in Ranelagh Road in 1879 and 250 nuns lived there in its heyday.
In the 1960s, the intake of novices declined and, by the mid 1980s, the community was struggling financially and began to sell off land for housing and then industrial development. In 1989, the convent was sold to a property developer and the few remaining nuns moved to a smaller convent in Derby, where they remain today.
The building had become dilapidated and derelict when the Day of Salvation Ministries purchased and restored it in 1994.
All the gardens where the nuns used to grow their produce has now been built on but the small wooded area was in the bottom corner of the gardens and is the nuns graveyard, quite an eery place with a huge wooden cross; not many people know this little hidden part of Malvern exists.
now if i havent bored you to death ..on with the pics...
Inside was just brilliant, however nearly all the doors to the rooms the nuns slept in where closed tightly and drilled shut.. Above their doors where their names enscribed in gold.. after several corridors lined with pughs and lovely quaint windows it led to the church.. a windey spiral stone staircase led off that to the gallery above...apologies for not a huge amount of photos but i was rather aware of the builders around the place.A bit of History
A FORMER convent that was once home to 250 nuns could be converted into 14 houses and apartments.
Plans for the Gospel Centre in Malvern Link, formerly the Convent of the Holy Name, were submitted to the district council this week.
They show the main Georgian-style buildings at the Grade II listed site converted into eight properties, with the Gothic-style chapel becoming two homes with a leisure facility and swimming pool below. Two new properties and 14 double garages would also be built.
A statement from the Day of Salvation Ministries, which currently run the Gospel Centre, said the existing architectural quality and detail of the buildings would be retained.
The statement said the organisation could not indefinitely sustain the monetary and physical demands of maintaining the complex without threatening its work.
"Crusade evangelism in poor countries is expensive and for the work to expand the requisite funding can only be found if the Ministry sells its building assets," said the statement.
The Community of the Holy Name established the convent in Ranelagh Road in 1879 and 250 nuns lived there in its heyday.
In the 1960s, the intake of novices declined and, by the mid 1980s, the community was struggling financially and began to sell off land for housing and then industrial development. In 1989, the convent was sold to a property developer and the few remaining nuns moved to a smaller convent in Derby, where they remain today.
The building had become dilapidated and derelict when the Day of Salvation Ministries purchased and restored it in 1994.
All the gardens where the nuns used to grow their produce has now been built on but the small wooded area was in the bottom corner of the gardens and is the nuns graveyard, quite an eery place with a huge wooden cross; not many people know this little hidden part of Malvern exists.
now if i havent bored you to death ..on with the pics...
