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Stars Football Academy Annual 2019

Stars Football Academy 2019 - find out about all of Stars Football short and long term education and football programs in the UK with the 2019 annual.

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OUR CAMPUS has a 180 year education legacy. A<br />

large former convent site, originally purchased in<br />

1834 by the Rev. Jones with a bequest of £10,000<br />

from Lady Stanley of Puddington.<br />

In 1848 nuns of the newly formed Catholic teaching<br />

order, ‘The Society of the Holy Child Jesus’ moved<br />

into the convent and set about establishing schools.<br />

The architect William Wilkinson Wardell<br />

was employed to complete the convent building<br />

and design a Girls Poor School and entrance in the<br />

boundary walls, which had been erected in<br />

the middle of the 1830s.<br />

The foundation of the Girls Poor School was laid<br />

in 1849 and the entrance arch built in 1850. The<br />

Girls Poor School is now known as The Gatehouse.<br />

Wardell also built a presbytery on the site in<br />

1856 and at about the same time the founder of the<br />

order, Cornelia Connelly, received permission from<br />

the Catholic church hierarchy to build a training college,<br />

which was built to the south of the girls Poor<br />

School. Now known as ‘Gothic House’ this building<br />

was then named St Michael’s and is a mixture of<br />

styles.<br />

The Training College closed in 1862 and the building<br />

as a whole became the Middle School. In 1883<br />

the Middle School was re-located to Mayfield and<br />

the Junior School moved into the building. At this<br />

time a tunnel was built connecting the building to<br />

the main convent building. In 1914 it is thought that<br />

the northern part of the building was heightened by<br />

a storey.<br />

In 1974 ‘The Society of the Holy Child Jesus’ moved<br />

the whole school to Mayfield and in 1976 the site<br />

was bought for use as a summer language<br />

school.<br />

<strong>Stars</strong> <strong>Football</strong> found their permanent home at the<br />

college and all short and long term programs on<br />

offer take place on the campus.<br />

It is likely that the northern part could have been<br />

built originally as part of the school, circa 1849, and<br />

the southern part was built as the training college<br />

circa 1856 as there is a clear change in style.

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