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Aug 23, 2022 · 2022 sees the 30th anniversary of St James Priory in the heart of Bristol. Bristol’s oldest building is of course more than 30 years old, but it was in 1992 that the signing of the lease was done that gave the redundant Medieval St James Priory a new lease of life!
May 7, 2024 · News Archives - St James Priory. St James Priory through the ages. Jun 18, 2024 | News. The remains of St James’s Priory constitute Bristol’s oldest building in everyday use. Surviving as a parish church until 1984, major structural works and a new function have brought it back to life.
- Tackling Bristol’s Drugs Problem
- Austerity Hits
- Residential Rehabs Disappear
- Turning A Blind Eye
The early days at St James Priory were focused on feeding the homeless on Sunday nights, but the team wanted to go further and tackle the underlying issues of those who were coming to them. Plans were made for a 16-bed residential treatment centre for people with drug and alcohol addictions, and after a long fundraising campaign, Walsingham House w...
It seemed like the culmination of the original vision for the priory, but the joy was short-lived. The following year in 2012, crisis hit when the Supporting People programme – an initiative introduced by the Labour government that was helping to fund Walsingham House – was slashed as part of the coalition government’s austerity drive. “Our revenue...
But the loss of the residential rehab was an early sign of a trend repeated across Bristol and beyond over the last decade. Nationwide, a third of publicly funded residential addiction services were forced to close between 2013 and 2019. In Bristol, Chandos Housewas the last of this kind to go in 2018. Meanwhile, drug-related deaths in England and ...
Community-based rehabilitation services, such as day centres, are important but are not thought to be as effective as residential services. This chronic need for publicly funded residential rehabs is immediately visible when you step out of St James Priory and into the former churchyard that runs down to the Haymarket. Yards from Bristol’s shopping...
The Priory Church of St James, Bristol ( grid reference ST588734 ), is a Grade I listed building [2] in Horsefair, Whitson Street. It was founded in 1129 as a Benedictine priory by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the illegitimate son of Henry I.
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