at
London Colney The Society was established in 1851 in the parish of
All Saints, Margaret Street in London by Harriet Brownlow Byron. The sisters were employed in parish work, particularly among the poor and underprivileged. The convent in
Margaret Street, Westminster, still stands; the convent chapel by
G. E. Street (1860) is Grade II listed. In 1879, Father
Richard Meux Benson invited the All Saints Sisters to
Cowley in east
Oxford to run the St John's Home hospital. The foundation stone for St John's Home was laid by
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (son of Queen Victoria) in 1873. In Oxford, the Sisters continued with similar parish work.
Michael Ramsey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, died in the St John's Home in 1989. In July 2014, the sisters of the
All Saints Convent in Cowley, welcomed into one part of their buildings the
Conventual Franciscans who made it a formation centre. The foundation stone for a new
All Saints Convent at
London Colney near
St Albans, Hertfordshire, was laid by the
Bishop of St Albans in 1899. The building was completed in 1901 to the design of
Leonard Stokes. The chapel was added between 1921 and 1928 to the design of
Sir Ninian Comper (1864-1960), and extended by his son
Sebastian Comper between 1960 and 1964. The site was sold in 1973. ==Current work==