Theodore House
In 1840, the Jesuit community at Stonyhurst built a three-storey mill, and developed the two canal ponds that grace the driveway, to power the mill’s functioning. This was an important part of the development of the College’s estate, serving to feed the rapidly-growing school community that had moved over from St Omer’s, France, to Stonyhurst Hall only 47 years earlier.
By the turn of the second millenium, the Old Mill – a Grade II listed building – had long since fallen into a ruinous state.
In 1840, the Jesuit community at Stonyhurst built a three-storey mill, and developed the two canal ponds that grace the driveway, to power the mill’s functioning.This was an important part of the development of the College’s estate, serving to feed the rapidly-growing school community that had moved over from St Omer’s, France, to Stonyhurst Hall only 47 years earlier.
By the turn of the second millenium, the Old Mill – a Grade II listed building – had long since fallen into a ruinous state.
In 2017, The Christian Heritage Centre charity leased the site of the Old Mill, together with the woodlands surrounding it, and raised the necessary monies to clear and reinforce the Old Mill’s walls, and to create a new building within.
The newly-rennovated Theodore House was opened on 15th February 2019 by Lord Nicholas Windsor, providing accommodation, conference, retreat and meeting spaces for the charity’s events, as well as for other orgnaisations in the region, nationally and internationally.
