2012

SX9373 : Pillar to flank wall, Trinity School entrance

taken 13 years ago, near to Teignmouth, Devon, England

Pillar to flank wall, Trinity School entrance
Pillar to flank wall, Trinity School entrance
Metal lettering discloses an earlier incarnation: Notre Dame Convent St Josephs.
Trinity School :: SX9374

Grace Griffiths' 'History of Teignmouth' relates that Trinity School was formerly the Convent of Notre Dame. About 1826 the Redemptorist Order of Priests and Brothers bought a site on Bugridge Farm. The monks built a monastery, Notre Dame, with a small public church and a private chapel. Within 20 years the monastery was felt to be too big for the Order and it was offered for sale. Purchased by the congregation of Notre Dame it became a boarding school for girls in 1901. The school grew and became both a boarding and a day school with a first class reputation. It was extended and then expanded into neighbouring properties.

By 1977 the Sisters of Notre Dame were faced with the fact that the admissions to their Order were decreasing: not enough nuns were coming forward with the right qualifications to make the school economically viable. The parents of the pupils did not want the school to close and formed a trust to buy the school, which became known as Trinity School, and was both ecumenical and co-educational. The Bishop of Exeter and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth were patrons.

The school's website LinkExternal link adds that in 1977 the nuns decided to close the school and the existing parents proposed that a co-educational joint faith Roman Catholic and Anglican school could be created using the same buildings and many of the same staff.


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SX9373, 493 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Robin Stott   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 6 May, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 17 October, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SX 9379 7381 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:33.2621N 3:30.0390W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SX 9379 7381
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