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INSIDE ST BEUNO'S

  

 

St Beuno's main entrance up the stairs. Please ring before arrival for disabled access. A typical bedroom on the lower levels. Lift Computers Lift Computer with Broadband and Wireless St Beuno's main entrance up the stairs. The Grounds - click to see them Kitchen A modern bathroom block with facilities for the less mobile. Laundry Facitlities for retreatants and course participant's use. Quadrangle Garden in midwinter The side chapels are now separated from the main Chapel with a smoked glass screen. They are popular places for prayer with their assorted religious imagery. There are a number of small prayer spaces. Ignatius Chapel for private Masses Apple Store : interview and small group meeting space. Meeting Room. Usually for team use, though sometimes used for small group meetings. Lift goes between basement and Chapel Gallery A typical bedroom on the lower levels. Coach house space can be used for reading or art Art Room, is newly constructed and open to all retreatants. Chapel is now fitted with a wheelchair lift for disabled access. Chapel with the tent and flexible seating Dining Room with pulpit which was used to read to the students during their meals, now houses a sound-system for music. Bookshop which specialises in Spirituality and religious books. Also pottery, candles, cards and a few toiletries. Capel y Coed. A quiet, airy chapel with windows on the woods and permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Retreatants Lounge. Available as a sitting room for retreatants. Corridor with a display on the life of the Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Conference Room. Used for larger groups. Library of Spiritual and Theological works available for consultation Belarmine Room named after the Jesuit Cardinal Robert Belarmine. Used for interveiws and small groups. The Audio-Visual Room. With TV, DVD, Video and surround sound. The Common Room: a place for day groups and the common room for people on the courses and longer programmes. Lift Lift A typical bedroom on the lower levels. Common Room Belarmine Room Audio Visual Room Conference Room Library Run your mouse slowly over the plan and see the room in the box above.

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St Beuno's was built as a house of studies for Jesuit students in 1848.
The wide corridors were often used for prayer and exercises, particularly in wet weather.
The corridors now are well stocked with works of art, both original and reproductions to help stimulate the spirit.

The rooms are generally large and spaceous making them cool in summer and, thanks to the heating, pleasant in winter. Some of the higher bedrooms are cosy with good views, while the lower ones tend to be more generously proportioned.

Chapel Corridor

The conference room comfortably fits 50, but we have had up to 100 in for the annual Hopkins Lecture. The Common Room too can fit up to 30 or 40 people. The main Chapel with its tent and cairn altar is always open for prayer and can fit up to about 80 people for services. There are many smaller prayer spaces suitable for one or two people and the delightful Capel y Coed.
For retreatants who tire of their bedrooms there is always the Lounge, the Library or other small open spaces where a comfortable hour can be spent.

The new Art room has proved very popular. Clay, paint, and many other media are available for retreatants free of charge. For those on our programmes there is a broadband computer available to keep abreast of e-mails and a wireless connection in the Common Room if you have your own laptop.

Finally the Bookshop has a good selection of spiritual and religious books, with a particular specialisation in Ignatian Spirituality.

 


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