Former All Saints Pastoral Centre
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Former All Saints Pastoral Centre
Image: © Chris Brown Taken: 17 Apr 2018
All Saints Centre remains a striking landmark from M25. First an Anglican convent with buildings by Catholic architects (main buildings and the attractive gate lodge on the right of this view, Leonard Stokes; chapel Ninian Comper), it was from 1973 a conference and retreat centre for the Catholic Diocese of Westminster, which sold it in 2011. The development company Comer exhibited plans to convert the main building to 30 luxury flats and build 170 new homes west of it (behind in this view) in March 2015 but as far as I can make out no planning application has yet been submitted. Attempts by London Colney parish council to get first the whole site and then the chapel listed as an asset of community value were both rejected by St Albans council; the chapel is reportedly in poor repair. This view was available by scrambling through a roadside ditch with flytipped rubbish.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.71137
Longitude
-0.300886