One Hull Of A Story: The French Convent School
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The French Convent, or more correctly The Canonesses of St. Augustine School, Park Grove, Hull, was founded by a group of nuns exiled from France. The nuns had come to Hull from Versailles after being persecuted under French anti-clerical laws of 1904, known as the Combes Laws. It is believed that they chose Hull, as some of their pupils in Versailles were from the city.
The school was an independent R.C. day and boarding school. With the out-break of war in 1939 however the boarders were detached, first to Boynton Hall near Bridlington. After the war they located to Rise Hall School, which was established in 1946. The school was unusual, not only in its independence from the Roman Union, but that the French order had an English headmistress. Reverend Mother Philomena Hobson was the Head of the school between 1916 and 1972, when it eventually closed. The original walls and entrance gates of the convent grounds, now make up the front gates of Convent Court and Sycamore Court on Park Grove. |
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