Buildings
The Cathedral School, 105 Queen Street (1915-1916)
The high school department of the Cathedral School opened in 1915 under the direction of Reverend Joseph L. O’Brien. It offered two courses of study, classical and commercial. The school was free to any Catholic boy or girl in Charleston who met the entrance requirements. By 1916, the student body had outgrown its space and a new building was located for the growing high school.
Cenacle Sisters Convent, 203 Calhoun Street (1916-1919)
The Ladies of the Cenacle or the Cenacle Sisters were a society that conducted the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1906, a request was made by Mrs. Fortune Ryan of New York, to Bishop Northrop for a Cenacle in Charleston to be formed, the third in the United States. A few years later, a Cenacle in Boston was formed and the sisters left Charleston. In 1916, the property was given by its owner, Fortune Ryan, to the Diocese of Charleston to be used as a home for the high school. In September of 1916, the school moved to the former convent and was renamed Bishop England High School in honor of the first bishop of Charleston, John England. The building was razed in 1921 when ground was broken for the new Bishop England High School.
Central School/Gregorian Hall [54?] George Street (1919-1921)
A temporary location for the school was used while the property on Calhoun Street was being built. Originally a Mission Presbyterian Church, the building was once known as the Central School, a Catholic school for boys, and then Gregorian Hall.
Bishop England High School, 203 Calhoun Street (1922-1998)
Built in 1921 and opened in 1922 at a cost of $56,000, the new Bishop England High School building was able to accommodate the 157 high school students enrolled in the school, plus the 35 students registered in the new junior high school department.
Bishop England High School, 363 Seven Farms Drive, Daniel Island (1998-Present)
By 1995, enrollment had reached 805 students. Bishop David Thompson, the eleventh bishop of Charleston decided to move the Bishop England High School to Daniel Island. The new building was completed in 1998.