Adrodd fel Amhriodol
Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EAW008860 / 1062931)
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Notre Dame High School (parent association: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur). The Northampton School was established in 1852 after a merger of two Orders. The Sisters of Jesus who had been resident in Northampton since 1845 were in danger of closure as four of their Sisters had died in a typhus epidemic and so it was suggested that they join the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. In the 19th and early 20th centuries Northampton had a very small Catholic community, so the school had a large number of non-Catholic students. In 1870 a new building was erected dominating the eastern end of Abington Street in the town centre. There were additions to the school buildings in 1938 and in 1950 a Domestic Science and Biology block was built. By 1970 the building was obviously unsuitable for the needs of a modern Comprehensive school and its future became doubtful.
The school closed in 1975 and the building was demolished. Existing pupils transferred to the Thomas Becket Comprehensive School. See: http://www.bfndn.org/Northampton.htm
The "pin" is on the exquisite chapel, which along with some ancient trees, beautiful gardens, were simply flattened when bulldozers moved in on a Sunday morning. To the shame of the local Council, the main school building, a prominent and elegant structure on Abindgdon Street, likewise received no preferential treatment, and what should have been a lovingly preserved Listed Building was simply razed to ground to make way for a modern shopping centre. '