The Design of the New Monastery

The Scheme

Feilden Clegg Bradley, architects of Bath, set to work designing the new monastery in late summer 2004, but not before Peter Clegg, Gill Smith and Louise Blackler, the project architects, had experienced a day in the life of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey. They even got up in time for Vigils at 6.00 a.m!

They listened to our ideas and thoughts, and soon a new Stanbrook Abbey was taking shape on paper.

The architects were asked to provide

ENCLOSURE
- 29 cells
- a refectory and kitchen
- offices
- a calefactory, chapter house and sacristy
- novitiate
- library
- laundry and sewing areas
- cloisters
- infirmary

SHARED ACCOMMODATION
- church
- parlours
- meeting rooms
- exhibition space

GUEST ACCOMODATION
- bedrooms
- dining room and kitchen
- library

Ground floor plan March 2005

North elevation

South elevation which includes cells, calefactory, chapter house and church

West elevation which includes library

Section through courtyard

Another section through courtyard

THE DESIGN TEAM

Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley LLP

Landscape Architect: Camlin Lonsdale

Structural Engineer, Drainage
and Civil Engineer: Structures One

M & E Engineer: Faber Maunsell

Quantity Surveyor, Project Manager and CDM Co-Ordinator: Davis Langdon LLP

Main Contractor: William Birch & Sons Ltd

Clerk of Works: Hickton Consultants Ltd