| Cardinal Newman College | |
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.jpg) View of the college (2019) | |
| Location | |
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Lark Hill Road ,, PR1 4HD England | |
| Coordinates | 53°45′24″N2°41′16″W / 53.7566°N 2.6878°W /53.7566; -2.6878 |
| Information | |
| Type | Voluntary aidedsixth form college |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1978 (1978) |
| Local authority | Lancashire County Council |
| Department for Education URN | 130745Tables |
| Principal | Nick Burnham |
| Staff | 400 |
| Gender | mixed |
| Age | 16+ |
| Enrolment | 3,500 |
| Website | www |
Cardinal Newman College is aCatholicsixth form college close to the centre ofPreston,Lancashire, England. The college was graded "outstanding" byOfsted in February 2023.[1]
The college containsLark Hill House, built in 1797 as private house for Samuel Horrocks, a cotton manufacturer and later Mayor andMember of Parliament for Preston.[2][3] The house was unoccupied after the deaths of both Horrocks in 1842 and his son four years later, until 1860 when it was sold to theFaithful Companions of Jesus Sisters, to becomeLark Hill House School for girls.
The house was modified in 1870, with more classrooms added in 1893, 1907, and 1932. The school was adirect grant grammar school for girls from 1919, known asLarkhill Convent Grammar School. From 1967, the school took in sixth form female students from other Catholic secondary schools around Preston. The introduction ofcomprehensive schools in Lancashire forced the school to stop admitting under-16 pupils from 1978.
In that year, the Lark Hill sixth form merged with the sixth forms of the other two Catholic grammar schools in Preston, namelyWinckley Square Convent School andPreston Catholic College, to form Cardinal Newman College,[4] named afterJohn Henry Newman. Initially, the sites of all three former schools were used, but within a few years, the college was concentrated at the Lark Hill site.
However, the former Catholic College's playing fields, one mile (1½ km) south of the college, are still used by Newman College.
