The Loyola Centre and The Manning Room

The Loyola Centre is no longer available for regular and private hire.

The Manning Room is available for hire (Weekdays, Saturdays – only AM and Sundays – NOT available). It has a Health and Safety approved capacity of 40 standing adults.

The Manning Room

The Manning Room, the first schoolroom of the 1870s, is at the rear of the Church and comprises a single large room with a small adjoining kitchen. This is available for hire on weekdays and Saturday mornings. It has a Health and Safety approved capacity of 40 standing adults. 

If you are interested in booking please contact the Parish Office or email sunburyparishcentres@rcdow.org.uk

The toilet facilities in The Manning Room are available to all during Mass and teas and coffees are served here after 9.30 am Mass on Sunday.

The Loyola Centre

The Loyola Centre on Green Street belongs to St Ignatius parish also but is no longer available for private hire.

 The Centre was originally built in the early 1930s as St Ignatius parish primary school and remained such until 1967 when the school moved to its present site.  

The History of The Loyola Centre

The Loyola Centre was built in 1932 in the grounds of St Teresa’s Convent, which at the time was owned by the Sisters of Charity of St Paul, the Apostle. The nuns had taken on the education of local Catholic children when they moved to Sunbury in 1926. The one storey block consisted of two classrooms, a science room and staff rooms. St Ignatius School (in what is now The Manning Room) had become too small for the rapidly increasing number of pupils. The older pupils therefore moved across the road to this new building, where the school remained until the new school building further down Green Street was opened in 1967.

During 1988 and 1989 a major fundraising drive raised enough money to refurbish The Loyola Centre as a resource for the parish. It provides the ideal surroundings for first Holy Communion and Confirmation preparation. It is currently let out on a long term basis.

The Loyola Centre on Green Street

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