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