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St Mary’s Convent and Nursing Home Appeal still 25% short of its target The new St Andrew's wing of St Mary's Convent and Nursing Home was opened on Wednesday 25th June. The building is an extension to the Nursing Home, and provides individual rooms and facilities for 17 patients. It replaces an open ward, which can now be converted into further accommodation to the same standard.
The £1.7m appeal target is now 75% achieved and covers the cost of the new wing, but the remaining funds are still urgently needed to complete the upgrading of the older parts of the nursing home. June 27, 2003 Over £30,000 raised for nursing home St. Mary's Convent Nursing Home Sisters are doing it for themselves |
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Bishop of Kensington, the Rt Rev Michael Colclough, dedicated the
building after a service in the Chapel. The opening hymn, whose
English words were written by John Mason Neale, the founder of the
order of St Margaret that owns the convent, was "Christ is
made the sure foundation, Christ the head and cornerstone".
The bishop spoke to the original text by St Peter, emphasising the
importance of people above even the fine new stonework.