Welcome to
HOOTON PAGNELL
"where time stands still"
The Hostel
In 1949 the vicar, the Rev L Sparham, in consultation with Colonel St Andrew Warde Aldam, organised the formation of the Hooton Pagnell Club. The Hostel is now the Village Hall and Village Club.
The modern Granary cottages are, of course, converted from the granary with its stone steps at the north end of the building.
But very different in style to all other buildings in the village is "Red Roofs, built as the home of the then Land Agent Colonel Bernard Wilson, brother of Wilson who died with Scott in the Antarctic. "Red Roofs" subsequently became the home and surgery of the last "live-in” doctor, Dr Hemsley.
The Hostel, a mock Tudor building, was built in 1903, and was originally a theological college for St Chad's. At the turn of the century the Hostel House was a farmstead with outbuildings.
Canon C E Whiting was the Principle of the college and the students lived in and took an active part in village life.
The existence of the village cricket club is owed to them. St Chad's moved to Durham prior to the First World War to form part of the university.
The Hostel was used as a convalescent hospital during the war.
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