North Foreland Lodge
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| Motto |
Latin: Bene agere ac laetari (To do good and be happy) |
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| Established | 1909 |
| Closed | 2003 |
| Type | Independent |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Founder | Miss Mary B. Wolseley-Lewis |
| Location |
Originally at North Foreland, Isle of Thanet, Kent; from 1947 at Sherfield on Loddon Hampshire RG27 England |
North Foreland Lodge was an independent boarding school for girls in England, originally established at North Foreland in Kent. Displaced from there by the Second World War, in 1947 it settled at Sherfield Manor in Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire, until its closure in 2003 shortly after being acquired by another school, Gordonstoun.
In 2004 Gordonstoun sold the school site to a group of schools called Gems Education, which converted it into a new mixed-sex independent school called Sherfield School.
The school was founded in 1909 at North Foreland, near Broadstairs in Kent, by Miss Mary Wolseley-Lewis, who at the time was the head of the Francis Holland School in Graham Street, Westminster, SW1. This event came as a shock to the Francis Holland School, especially when its departing head took several girls and members of staff with her. Miss Wolseley-Lewis had herself been educated by Dorothea Beale at Cheltenham Ladies College.
The Journal of Education reported on the opening of the school:
A NEW school for girls is to be opened on the North Foreland in May. The soundness of the Church teaching is obviously guaranteed, no less by the appointment of Miss Wolseley-Lewis as Principal than by the three bishops who are among the patrons. The social position seems to be equally well secured by the fee of one hundred and fifty guineas together with the fact that, according to the advertisement, "references will, in all cases, be required".
As a result of the Second World War, the school had to evacuate its premises in Kent, and it then had several temporary homes, including a hotel. After the War, in 1947, the school bought as a permanent home Sherfield Manor, which during the War had served as a military hospital, and continued to occupy it for more than fifty years, extending the buildings to more than 125,000 sq ft (11,600 m2).
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