Monastery of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Slough,England

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Slough was founded in 1897 from Esquermes in France, in anticipation of the anti-clerical laws of 1904 which were to prohibit religious life.

The main part of the building - Aldin House - was built in the mid 19th century. Before the Sisters moved there, it had been used as a private house, a preparatory school, and as the novitiate house of the french Jesuits. Over the last hundred years, various additions have been made to the building.

The original chapel was built in 1875.

At the time of the foundation, the monastery was right in the countryside, with nothing but fields separating it from Windsor Castle. Now the area has become increasingly built up, and the Sisters live their monastic life in the suburbs of a busy town in the South East of England, about 25 miles West of London. Nevertheless, the monastery, set in extensive grounds with fields, a vegetable garden, orchard and cemetery, provides an oasis of peace and prayer for those who visit.