The History of St Aidan’s House St Aidan’s has perhaps the most varied history of all the Ampleforth houses. Founded as one of the four original houses in 1926, it was unique in that it remained in its original central school location until 2001 when it became Ampleforth’s first girls’ Sixth Form house. Finally in 2002 St Aidan’s moved out of the central school and into its modern home on Aumit Hill opposite the Infirmary. The girls of the house led the way in establishing co-education at Ampleforth and proved that girls could more than flourish at Ampleforth. Those early girls established many of the activities and traditions that girls still exist today. The final stage of the house’s development came in 2010 when the house was extended to provide accommodation for girls in all year groups of the College.
Previous Housemasters & Housemistresses: 1926 Fr Augustine Richardson
1928 Fr John Maddox
1938 Fr Terence Wright
1948 Fr Anthony Ainscough
1960 Fr Brendan Smith
1975 Fr Simon Trafford
1988 Fr Terence Richardson
1992 Fr Bernard Green
1996 Fr Cassian Dickie
1997 Fr Gabriel Everitt
1998 Mr Bill Lofthouse
2002 Miss Pam Dixon
2003 Miss Antonia Beary
2005 Mrs Brenda Abbott
2009 Dr Victoria Fogg
2012 Mrs Anne Le Gall
2019 Miss Annabel Brown
2021 Mrs Ceri Dent
