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Description: | Aldin House, which today houses St. Bernard's School, has a long tradition of education. Pevsner states that the house was built by Charles Aldin for his own use; other sources say that it was built as a home for Baroness Burdett-Coutts who never lived there. It was opened as St. Michael's School on 22 September 1869 by the Revd John Hawtrey and educated, amongst others, the Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. The Chapel, designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse, was added on to the west side of the house at this time. After St. Michael's moved to Westgate, Aldin House was bought as a college in 1884 by a group of French Jesuits. They stayed for eight years, and the house was eventually bought by the Bernardines in 1897. A boarding school was run by the Convent and in 1904 the first local children were taken, when a room in the convent's tower was set aside as a classroom. The School was renamed St. Bernard's, and was in the care of the Bernardine nuns until the early twenty-first century. In July 2006 the last of the Bernadine nuns left St. Bernards and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton took over as trustees. St. Bernard's Convent School has become St. Bernard's Catholic Grammar School. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Convent schools ; Catholic schools ; Nunneries ; Schools St. Bernard's Convent ; St. Bernards's Catholic Grammar School ; Aldin House ; Burdett-Coutts ; Hawtrey ; Bernadines ; St. Michael's School ; Stanley Baldwin ; Charles Aldin | Temporal: | start=1920-01-01; end=1935-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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