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St David's Convent, Mold, Flintshire, Wales

In 1906, the former St David's College site, on Bryn Coch Lane, Mold, was taken over as a convent by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge, a French Roman Catholic order. The building had originally been erected in 1874 as the Flintshire County Gaol, but was subsequently used as a Jesuit College and, from 1899 to 1901 as a temporary home for boys from the Training Ship Clarence, after it had been damaged by fire.

The nuns established a Magdalen Home in part of the premises, for what was described as "the reclamation, instruction, and preservation of women and girls". The inmates of the home were employed in laundry work and needlework.

The convent site is shown on the 1899 map below.

St David's College site, Mold, c.1899.

Former St David's College entrance block from the east, Mold, c.2011.

The home closed in around 1912. In 1915, it was reported that the site was to be employed as a place of internment for alien enemies.

In 1924, the site was sold by its then owners, the Spanish Ecclesiastical Authorities. In the mid-1930s, the old cell blocks were demolished and the remainder converted to residential use.

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