History

History
The Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning was founded in 1974 by four sisters from our communities at Slough and Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Until 1973, the house and garden was the home of the Peel family; a splendid country mansion situated in acres of farmland. This main house now serves as our guesthouse. When the sisters arrived they used the servant quarters and the guests would use the main house. The last foundress of the monastery, Sr Mary John is now 88 and still lives in the community. In 1983, an extension was built to link a large outbuilding to the main house. This is now the Community area. A year later, a large barn was converted into a simple and prayerful Chapel with the cloister corridor built to link it with the main house. 2009 is the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the chapel. Our last major building project was in 1999 when one wing of the house was gutted in order to install a lift and provide further accommodation and resources. Though at the moment Cottage 1 is being gutted and completely redone. In 2006 our community at Slough was closes and several sisters from Hyning went to form a new community at Brownshill, Gloucestershire and several sisters from Slough came to join the remaining community.

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