Sedgley Park School, Wolverhampton

[1] Errington made three unsuccessful attempts, the first in Buckinghamshire, the second in Wales, and the third at Betley near Newcastle-under-Lyne, in Staffordshire, before he succeeded in founding a permanent school at Sedgley Park in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton.

The object of the establishment of Sedgley Park was the education of the sons of middle and poorer class Catholics.

[3] The house, a tall, square, brick building had such a number of windows on all sides, that when lighted up, led to its being called about the country, The Lantern.

Hugh Kendall as head-master in May, 1763, and he returned to Bishop Challoner in London, where he served as archdeacon till his death in 1768.

The former school building is now in the suburb of Goldthorn Park that was transferred to Wolverhampton in 1966 when Sedgley Urban District was abolished and was converted into a hotel in 1981.