Mother Superior's Chamber

The Mother Superior's Chamber is suitable to host meetings for up to ten people. Equipped with a hand-crafted timber board table, upholstered chairs, white board, with access to a handy kitchen, this cosy room is positioned directly off the beautiful Convent Courtyard. 

History of the Mother Superior's Chamber

The small room now used as a discreet meeting space was once the Mother Superior’s office space. With its own formal marble fire place and exit door onto the external cloister area, it was located in a position that allowed her easy access to the main spaces on the ground floor of the Convent. The Mother Superior’s desk was positioned near the fire place looking outwards towards the courtyard space.

The actual table in the room was constructed by young people working on an Odyssey House project. The jarrah timber that the table is constructed from was taken form the floor of the original Laundry buildings. When the Abbotsford Convent Foundation took possession of the site in 2004, unfortunately, the Laundries had fallen into a bad state of disrepair and the once majestic and tough jarrah floorboards were in the main rotten and dangerous. Odyssey House assisted in providing young people to remove the floor boards and it was decided to create a permanent reminder of their heritage with the creation of the large table that now graces the Mother Superior’s ex-office space.

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