104 – 106 Chesterton Road, Kasenga, Carmelite Convent, Cambridge

History of 104 - 106 Chesterton Road

1911

Horace George Gray, 44, manufacturer of athletic goods, b Chesterton

Ellen Mary, 43, b Colchester

Harold Douglas, 18, b Chesterton

Mary Ellen Moule, 20, servant, b Fulbourn

History of Gray family:

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1913

(104) Kasenga

William Hopkin Wright

(106)

Horace George Gray, councillor of the borough

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November 1923:

Carmelite nuns opened a convent at this site; their chapel served as a Mass centre for Catholics in the area. In the 1937 the decision was taken to move to Waterbeach because the Chesterton Road site had become too noisy.

Enclosure ceremony at the Carmelite convent — 20 November 1923
A ceremony unique in Cambridge and of a very impressive nature took place at the Carmelite convent on Chesterton Road when his eminence Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster gave an address. The ceremony was that of enclosing nuns. The house consists of two former dwelling houses joined together and possesses a small public chapel in which there will be public mass every day. With the exception of the nuns’ choir chapel, no part of the building is actually new

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Chesterton Road Area Scrapbook, reference 1923 11 20

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By 1939 the house had been replaced by the S Regis flats