St Winifred's School

St. Winifred's was founded on 3 May 1887 and named after the 7th-century Welsh saint, Winefride. Its driving force and primary sponsor was the Honourable Eleanor Douglas Pennant, one of the daughters of Lord Penrhyn, at a time when there was little high-quality secondary education available for girls. Most pupils were boarders, with a small number of day girls, mostly from a middle-class background. Initially occupying buildings in Bangor, north-west Wales, in 1922 the school moved to the small coastal town of Llanfairfechan, eight miles east of Bangor. Tuition was holistic: 'to provide, upon a sound and accurate system, a religious and useful education for the daughters of clergymen and…