Bishop Hannon High School

For the defunct school in Pennsylvania, USA, see Holy Cross High School (Pennsylvania).

Bishop Hannon High School was a Roman Catholic comprehensive school on Beechley Drive, Pentrebane, Cardiff, Wales.[1][2]

The school was built in the 1960s on a 17-acre site on the edge of what was then the new housing estates of Fairwater.[3] Fifty pupils started in September 1965, before the school was completed in January 1966. The school was designed to take 600 pupils.[3]

The school was attended by Cardiff, Wales and British Lions rugby player Terry Holmes and the Conservative politician Simon Hoare.

By the early 1980s the school had 670 pupils.[1]

The school was closed in 1987 and its pupils transferred to other Roman Catholic schools in the city.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b The Education Authorities Directory and Annual 1981, The School Government Publishing Company, 1981, p. 493, ISBN 0-900640-13-8
  2. ^ "School Days (Image 14 of 27)". Wales Online. 9 February 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Egan, Josephine (1988), Opting Out: Catholic Schools Today, Fowler Wright Books, p. 49, ISBN 0-85244-1312