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Opening Times

Monday - Saturday
9am - 4pm

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Hunter House is a community hub in the heart of Calderwood, which is owned and run by Calderwood Baptist Church. We were able to buy and renovate the historic building in 2012 and re-opened this community landmark in January 2013. We offer a wide range of activities within Hunter House, which are run by both the church and different community groups. We are also delighted to have the very popular Hunter House Coffee Shop operating in the building and serving our local community.
 

Discover Hunter House...



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Hunter House Coffee Shop serves a wide variety of food including paninis, toasted sandwiches and a range of homemade soups. It also has an extensive breakfast menu, which includes 8 item breakfasts and hot filled rolls.
 

We serve great quality Italian coffee, various teas, delicious hot chocolate and a wide range of cakes, scones and treats. We also have a full kids' menu, which means that whether you are looking for lunch for the family, afternoon tea with friends or breakfasts served all day, Hunter House Coffee Shop is the place for you! 

Hunter House has its own private car park with ample disabled and family parking bays and the coffee shop also has full disabled access for your convenience.

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But don't just believe us, here's what some of our customers say:

"I can't believe what has been done with this building - it really is an incredible transformation. We are made so welcome by the staff and the food is always excellent."

"We love your coffee, it really is one of the best cups of coffee I've had."

"I have lived in East Kilbride all my life and have never been in this historic building. The food and the atmosphere in the coffee shop is excellent and so we just love coming again and again."




History
 

The 75 acre estate of Long Calderwood was purchased by John Hunter, the Hunter brothers' father in 1717. Hunter House is the original Long Calderwood Farm and may be the oldest building in East Kilbride. This house was the birthplace and childhood home of the famous local brothers, William and John Hunter.

Born on 23 May 1718, William Hunter became a famed teacher of anatomy and pioneered the study of gynaecology. 
 
Having worked in medical practice in Hamilton, William travelled to London to begin studying midwifery and he later began building a surgical and midwifery practice, and investigating female reproductive anatomy using animals. William Hunter Lectured regularly for the rest of his life attracting pupils from the continent and North America. His pupils' notes of his lectures are the only record of some of his discoveries.

In 1754 William became a member of the Society of London Physicians, which in 1757 started publishing Medical Observations and Inquiries, in which he was to publish some of his important cases.  Hunter's surgical practice became so successful that it was not until 1756 that he left the Company of Surgeons and joined the Royal College of Physicians. William went on to form a connection with the royal family, when in 1761, Queen Charlotte became pregnant and the king was advised to employ William to look after her. The safe birth of a son in August 1762 was followed on 18 September by William's appointment, as physician-extraordinary to the queen. He attended all her pregnancies until his death and was on friendly terms with both the king and queen.

William died on 30 March 1783 and was buried in a vault in St James's Church, Piccadilly, where there is a monument to his memory. William's reputation has suffered through his failure to publish much of his work although his significant discoveries are remembered to this day in the museum built in his honour, The Hunterian at Glasgow Univeristy.
 
William's brother, John Hunter, was also a surgeon and anatomist, and a major figure in the development of experimental medicine. He was born on 13 February 1728, the youngest of the ten children. Unable to find a vocation in Scotland and still undecided on his future John Hunter moved to London in 1748 to assist his brother William. John’s primary job was in the dissecting room and, recognizing John's skill in dissection, his brother adopted him as his assistant. The position suited John's needs and his temperament. Over the next decade John pursued with his usual intensity, although in relative obscurity, a series of novel investigations both alone and in co-operation with his brother.

In 1754, he entered St George's Hospital as a surgical pupil. With England at war and in need of surgeons, he joined the army as a staff surgeon in October 1760.  John served with the army in Portugal in 1762. For John such service provided the formal qualification for surgical practice he required. The war years were the capstone of an educational process that not only prepared him as the leading surgeon he soon became but also served as an introduction to the human and comparative physiology that became the primary interest for the rest of his life.
 
In spring 1763, John returned to London from Portugal. The war experience had made him a surgeon. It had also provided a career path within the army structure which would over the next thirty years lead him to increasingly responsible and respectable offices of authority: as surgeon-extraordinary to the king in 1776, surgeon-general of the army, and inspector of its hospitals in 1790. Primarily from his work during these years he produced his first major scientific work and subsequently earned him election as a fellow of the Royal Society on 5 February 1767 and the Copley medal in 1787.

On 22 July 1771, John married Anne Home the daughter a former army surgeon, whom he had met during the war. The Hunters had four children, but only two survived infancy.
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A Warm Hello 

Thank you for visiting our website. At the very heart of Calderwood Baptist Church is our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus Christ shows us what God is like and how we can have a relationship with God. And we believe that the only way to have this relationship with God is through Jesus' death and resurrection, which provides forgiveness and life to all who believe. It is our desire to share this life transforming news with people throughout East Kilbride and further afield.

Whether you're looking for a church or are interested in exploring Christianity, we hope you'll connect with us and begin to explore the good news about Jesus Christ. We are a church where you can connect with us and find a welcoming and loving community with a desire to serve you. We are a place where you can explore Christianity and find out who Jesus is and what it means to follow him. We are a church where you are invited to belong to our family who are united by our faith in Jesus and our trust in his saving death.

We are also a church that loves our community here in East Kilbride so we have a variety of ministries that seek to serve our community - information about these is included in our website. If there are other ways that we can serve you, please do reach out to us.

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Our Sunday services are a great way to connect with us and to begin your journey of getting to know us as a church and getting to know who Jesus is. You'll also get the chance to meet different people, some who have been Christians for a long time, some who are quite new to faith, and others who are still exploring. We really do our best to make everyone welcome!

You can also connect with us through a number of mid-week ministries that we run for our community and through our coffee shop, Hunter House Coffee Shop.

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At Calderwood, our desire is to know Jesus Christ and to make him known. Everything that we need to know about our Lord Jesus Christ is found in his living word, the Bible. So we take the Bible seriously, we read it and listen to it so we can hear what God is saying to us. If you would like to explore who Jesus is and how he came into the world to rescue us, we'd encourage you to read a bit of the Bible with a Christian friend.

We would be happy to give you a Bible and direct you to some good places to start. We'd also be happy to connect you with a Christian who would be happy to read some of the Bible with you. This is a great way to explore the Bible, discuss it, and hear how it has changed someone else's life.

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When we belong to Jesus Christ, we also belong to his family, the church. The church is a global family who are united by their belief in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord. As a local church, we seek to live as family at Calderwood Baptist Church. Entrance into this family comes through faith in our Lord Jesus and our desire to live with Jesus, for Jesus, and according to his word. As a church, we extend an invitation to belong to Christ's family as we make him known and invite people to respond to the significance of Jesus in their lives. We practice baptism as a sign of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we take membership of Christ's church seriously as we seek to live together as a community of grace.

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