{{Short description|Private day school in Cumbria, England}} {{Other uses}} {{COI|date=April 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox school | name = Austin Friars | image = Austin Friars School - geograph.org.uk - 5304529.jpg | image_size = | coordinates = {{coord|54.908|-2.947|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}} | motto = [[In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas|In Omnibus Caritas]]<br />(''[[Latin]]: In All Things Charity'') | established = 1951 | closed = | type = [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Private]] day school | religious_affiliation = [[Catholicism]]/[[Christianity|Christian]] | president = | head_label = Headmaster | head = Chris Hattam | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = Chair of the Board of Trustees | chair = Ewen Swinton | founder = | specialist = | address = Etterby Scaur | city = [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]] | county = [[Cumbria]] | country = United Kingdom | postal_code = CA3 9PB | local_authority = | ofsted = | urn = 112453 | staff = 70 (approx.) | enrolment = 425 (approx.) | gender = [[Co-educational]] | lower_age = 3 | upper_age = 18 | houses = {{color box|#0000FF}} Clare <br> {{color box|#006B3C}} Lincoln <br> {{color box|Red}} Stafford | colours = Maroon & Blue {{color box|#B03060}} {{color box|#2A52BE}} | publication = | free_label1 = | free_text1 = | free_label2 = | free_text2 = | free_label3 = | free_text3 = | website = {{URL|www.austinfriars.co.uk}} }} '''Austin Friars''' is a coeducational [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] day school located in [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]], England. The Senior School provides secondary education for 350 boys and girls aged 11–18. There are 150 children aged 4–11 in the Junior School and the Nursery has places for 16 children aged 3–4. Founded by the [[Order of Saint Augustine|Augustinian friars]] in 1951, it is one of the network of Augustinian schools in other parts of the world and welcomes pupils of all denominations.
==History== At the request of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster|Diocese of Lancaster]], the [[Order of Saint Augustine]] founded Austin Friars School, a day and boarding grammar school, to provide a Catholic education for boys in [[Cumbria]] and the city of Carlisle. The property was originally used by the [[Society of the Sacred Heart|Sisters of the Sacred Heart]] who had founded a school there before leaving for [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] in 1903 (and subsequently establishing [[Sacred Heart Catholic High School (Newcastle upon Tyne)|Sacred Heart Catholic High School]]) and the Poor Sisters of Nazareth who ran an orphanage. It was then acquired by the Augustinians in 1951 and has been occupied by the school ever since.<ref>[http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page19.htm Carlisle Encyclopaedia - A]</ref> Girls were admitted in 1986. Boarding ceased in 1998 due to declining interest.
St Monica's, a coeducational junior school, was founded by parents as an independent charity when St Gabriel's closed. It was relocated to the same site as Austin Friars in 1985.<ref>{{cite news|title=An Augustinian Occasion |url=http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/an-augustinian-occasion-1.376837?referrerPath=home/2.3080 |publisher=Cumberland News |date=14 May 2004 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The two schools legally merged in 2003 and were renamed Austin Friars St Monica's School. It became a trust after the last Augustinian priest, Father Bernard Rolls, who had himself been a pupil at the school, left for another assignment in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=Father's farewell to Friars after fifty years |url=http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/father-s-farewell-to-friars-after-fifty-years-1.369501?referrerPath=home/2.3080 |publisher=Cumberland News |date=19 July 2005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104203518/http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/father-s-farewell-to-friars-after-fifty-years-1.369501?referrerPath=home%2F2.3080 |archivedate=4 January 2015 }}</ref> Since then, the school has been operated entirely by lay staff and board of governors. It maintains its Catholic ethos and religious character.<ref>[http://www.austinfriars.cumbria.sch.uk/useful-links/our-history.html Our History] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104201925/http://www.austinfriars.cumbria.sch.uk/useful-links/our-history.html |date=4 January 2015 }}</ref>
In September 2015, the School was renamed as 'Austin Friars'.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.austinfriars.cumbria.sch.uk/ Official website] * [http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/england/cumbria/carlisle/austin-friars-st-monicas-school Profile] on the [[Independent Schools Council]] website * [http://www.augustinians.org.uk/ http://www.augustinians.org.uk] [[Augustinian Province of England and Scotland]]
{{Schools in Cumbria}} {{Diocese of Lancaster}} {{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Austin Friars}} [[Category:Private schools in Cumberland (unitary authority)]] [[Category:Schools in Carlisle, Cumbria]] [[Category:Augustinian schools]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1951]] [[Category:Catholic private schools in the Diocese of Lancaster]] [[Category:1951 establishments in England]]