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About Us
Who are we ...
St Cuthbert's House is owned and run by us – and we are Jeff & Jill Sutheran. We came to live in Northumberland twelve years ago, after years spent growing to love this area during many family holidays.
We are musicians…well alright, one of us is. The other wishes he was. Jill is a gifted musician, and seems to be able to make any instrument sound good, even those she’s never played before. She writes (and has recorded) beautiful music, poignant and reflective, but can also do a mean Tina Turner impersonation in our rock ’n roll party band - so her musical ability can truly be described as ‘diverse’. She began playing the Northumbrian Pipes several years 
ago now, which are a particularly difficult instrument to master, unless you are an octopus who can pat your tummy whilst rubbing your head. She will be reluctant, (because she hates being showy,) but we can definitely persuade her to play this amazing instrument for you when you come to St Cuthbert's House - if you want that! (Northumberland is the only English county with its ‘own’ musical instrument!) To complete this stanza, I should say that I am an absolutely average guitar player, and I play a Takamine acoustic and the instrument which shaped my teens, and therefore my life – a Fender Stratocaster.
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The stories of the ‘Celtic Saints’ in Northumbria, and the spirituality which they have inspired - particularly as we have grown to understand it through our life as part of the Northumbria Community – gave us a sense of ‘homecoming’ in our hearts many years ago. It just seemed to provide a language for answering some of the questions of faith we were wrestling with - and which we continue to wrestle with.
I am good around IT and techy stuff, and Jill…isn’t. But then she’s good around everything else. We've put the website together, together.
We have four children who used to be kids but then suddenly became adults. How did that happen? So we’re still learning to live with that, and them… They are lovely people, really they are, who share our heart for hospitality, and you will almost certainly meet some (or all) of them if you come by St Cuthbert's House.
We absolutely love living here, in our home adjacent to St Cuthbert's House (we live in the old manse, next door to the church) and we have really enjoyed every minute of this restoration project. Do I sound convincing?
Seriously, this building conversion is a project which has stretched us and stressed us, but which we can look back on with great satisfaction, knowing that we have created a very special thing, in a very special building - in a very special place! We sincerely hope we may have opportunity to share it with you, and that in some way, small or large, you will find good things in your sharing it with us.
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