All Saints Pastoral Centre is a complex of buildings atLondon Colney on the southern outskirts ofSt Albans,Hertfordshire, England. It was built as aconvent for the AnglicanSociety of All Saints Sisters of the Poor.
The original buildings were designed byLeonard Stokes in 1899 and built in 1901 with a chapel added byNinian Comper. It was Grade II* listed in 1972.[1] The complex was acquired by theRoman CatholicArchdiocese of Westminster in 1973[2][3] and converted for use as a pastoral centre. It was sold to a property developer in 2011[4] with the sale finalised in 2014.[5]
The property remains undeveloped, and in 2019 it was included inthe Twentieth Century Society's (C20) Top 10 Buildings at Risk List 2019.[6]
The main structure is built around a garden and has an inner cloister leading to the meeting rooms. The building has adapted to modern requirements but has retained its original beauty. The centre today caters to both residential and non-residential conferences, meetings and retreats mainly from the religious sector, and has good transport access to the diocese via theM25 motorway andRadlett railway station, both close by.
Attached to All Saints is an example of design by architectNinian Comper. The first half of the chapel was completed in 1927. Due to demands for space it was expanded by Sir Ninian's son Sebastian in 1963. In the west end of the chapel below therose window is aHarrison & Harrison organ.[7][8]
From the roof of the Comper Chapel, accessed via the bell tower, a panorama stretching fromRadlett around to St Albans is visible. From the roof the join between the more recent Sebastian and original Ninian chapels can be seen with the use of across brace securing the north and south walls.[7][8]
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