The building, constructed in the 1800s, was originally planned as an orphanage but later became an industrial school for girls.<\/p>\n
It was given to the religious order in 1910 by the Duke of Norfolk, whose sister was a Carmelite nun.<\/p>\n
The sisters have lived there ever since and because the Carmelites are a closed order – meaning the nuns are strictly separated from the outside world to live a contemplative life of prayer – not much has been modernised.<\/p>\n
“It’s quite basic but there is a lot of it,” Mr Goff said.<\/p>\n
“The Carmelites’ main drive is for another religious organisation to want it for fair value – that’s their wish and I am in communication with a few.”<\/p>\n
However, he said he had also received interest from developers and a leisure organisation.<\/p>\n
“We’re just gathering interest and finance ability at the moment though before people come to have a look round.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building, constructed in the 1800s, was originally planned as an orphanage but later became an industrial school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114984671686568618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}