Welcome to Nazareth House
Nazareth House is a unique and caring place where both young and old are treated with respect, lovingly cared for and given every opportunity to enjoy life in wonderful surroundings. View our CQC report.

Our Nazareth House Day Nursery and Nazareth House Care Home exist side by side, benefiting all who live, work and learn here with the experiences of individuals from all walks and times of life. Although both facilities are run separately, the Nazareth House care and commitment is applied to all and all are welcome.

We have a long history of care that goes back over 150 years, a history we are proud to be a part of and honour, by continuing to follow the hopes and ethos of our foundress: Victoire Larmenier.

“See the Divine Infant in the little ones, try to love them very much for His sake, and in the dear old people see Our Blessed Lady and St. Joseph.”

Lancaster Foundation
On 23rd January 1899 the Sisters opened a house in Dalton Square, Lancaster to care for the poor. Six Sisters came to start the new Foundation. This house was given rent free by Miss Margaret Coulston of Hawshead. This was a temporary arrangement as there was already 4½ acres of land conveyed to the Trustees as the site for the proposed new house in Ashton Road Work began in May and the people of Lancaster were very generous in their donations to the building fund.

Many elderly poor and children were received into the house and Dr. Aitken of Dalton Square was the first medical man to offer his services to the poor of Nazareth House, he refused payment, saying it was a great pleasure to him to attend the poor.

Owing to the bankruptcy of the contractors and the impossibility of getting slates during the suspension of work in the Welsh quarries, the building of the house in Ashton Road was very much delayed.

The transfer from Dalton Square to Ashton Road took place on 4th February 1902. There were 51 elderly and children. All the furniture were conveyed to the new house by the people of the town, free of expense. On 9th February the house was blessed and declared opened by Bishop Lucy, Bishop of Liverpool. The house was most comfortable and filled up rapidly with elderly and children.

As well as being cared for in the house, the children also went to school there.

A new building for babies was opened in July 1938. There would be at any one time approximately 40 babies placed by the Catholic Rescue Society.The building was later used to care for older children until it closed in 2001. The building was sold and has been converted into flats.

The main building is now registered with the Care Quality Commission as a 41 bed residential care home for the elderly.

A third building, originally a laundry was converted into a Day Nursery in 1971 and is registered with Ofsted to accept 52 children from babies to five year olds, at any one time. The total number of children on the register is 108.

As you can see from this summary, the work of the Sisters in Lancaster continues to care for the elderly and children today, as did the Sisters back in 1851, with the ongoing support of our loyal staff and the people of Lancaster.