Saint Hill Manor

Saint Hill is a mansion near East Grinstead, Sussex, England and was for many years the head office of the Church of Scientology. It remains the head office for the church in the United Kingdom.

It is situated on 59 acres (239,000 m²) of landscaped gardens.

Saint Hill Manor was built by Gibbs Crawford in 1792. Other owners include Edgar March Crookshank and Mrs. Drexrel Biddle, who commissioned the famous Monkey Mural which was painted by John Spencer-Churchill, nephew of Winston Churchill.

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, bought the mansion from the Maharajah of Jaipur in 1959 and lived there until 1966. Much of early Scientology was developed at Saint Hill, including a course known to Scientologists as the Saint Hill Special Briefing course. Hubbard also constructed Saint Hill Castle on the grounds outside the Manor.

Hubbard declared Saint Hill to be the org (church) by which all other orgs would be measured, and he issued a general order (still followed by the Church today) for all orgs around the world to expand and reach "Saint Hill size." The Church of Scientology has announced that the highest levels of Scientology teaching, OT 9 and OT 10, will be released and made available to church members when all the major orgs in the world have reached Saint Hill size. [1]

External links

• Aerial photograph of Saint Hill (Multimap.com)
• Advanced Organization & Saint Hill United Kingdom (official home page)
• Saint Hill Manor (AboutBritain.com)
• Saint Hill (Jon Atack, A Piece Of Blue Sky, chapter 2)