Bishop Challoner School


Bishop Challoner School was an English independent coeducational Roman Catholic day school in Shortlands, Greater London, for children aged three to eighteen years. In June 2025 its closure on 4 July 2025 was announced.
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History

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The school started as a junior school. In 1956 a senior wing was added. More classrooms and an assembly hall/gymnasium followed in 1963. The art block was opened in 1968 and another block – now the junior block – was opened in 1980. Challoner became co-educational in the Junior School in 1992, later extending into the Senior School. At the same time a nursery was opened. A new sixth form study centre was opened as well as a drama studio and art facilities.
The school became an independent charity limited by guarantee in December 2013. It is governed by a board of trustees. In 2017, its refurbished chapel was blessed by Peter Smith, Archbishop of Southwark, and renamed "The Chapel of The Annunciation". The chapel contains four icons commissioned from the Bethlehem Icon School.

Notable former pupils