St Mary's School

A Memory of Gravesend.

It is believed that this was a training college for Church of England vicars and then it was subsequently used as an orphanage run by the Catholic Rescue Society and staffed by the Sisters of Chariry, a French order of nuns. During the years of the Second World War the whole school was evacuated down to Devon and the building was left unoccupied. After the was the school returned and it was known as St Mary's School. In about 1953 the orphans were rehoused with foster parents in private homes and the building was demolished. The area is now a housing estate.