History

1927 – a Bill of Parliament required registration and medical supervision for all nursing homes in England and Wales.
An amendment was won exempting Christian Science nursing homes from registration.
The exemption was carried forward in subsequent legislation, but repealed in 2002 in favour of the Care Standards Act 2000. All exemptions were withdrawn.
Charton Manor is now registered as a ‘care home not providing medicines or medical treatment’.

In the early 1930s a number of Christian Scientists in London began collecting money for the establishment of a nursing home, run on a non-profit basis.
Viscount and Viscountess Astor bought Tudor House on Hampstead Heath, London, and in 1935 gave it to the newly-formed Hawthorne Trust to operate as a Christian Science nursing home.
The house – the first Christian Science House in the UK – opened in 1937. It was renamed Hawthorne House.
The House was sold in November 1987, and Hawthorne Trust bought Charton Manor and relocated there.
The first known record of a manor house on this site was in the 1086 Domesday Book.
Construction of the purpose-built Charton Manor began 5 May 1987, with completion 4 July 1988. First guests were received two months later.