It was based in a house in Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens), and members worked near King's Cross.
[2] The Lambeth Conference recognized the Deaconess Order in 1897, but controversy concerning appropriate women's roles continued in 1920, 1930 and 1948.
The Community of St. Andrew stopped accepting new recruits in 1987, when women could be ordained directly as deacons and priests.
St. Andrews House, which the community built as an extension to their mother house in 1974, in 2002 (when the remaining sisters moved to St. Mary's Convent in Chiswick) was lent to be the Secretariat of the Anglican Communion (currently a collection of 40 autonomous churches linked by a shared history, relationship with the See of Canterbury and membership in the Anglican Consultative Council.
[3] The (Deaconess) Community of St Andrew, 1861–2011, Revd Dr Sr Teresa Joan White, CSA, 2013 (2nd printing).