In October 1995 The Mail reported how Our Lady s Chetwynde School at Barrow, which had soared to success since it took over from a small convent school in 1984, had a new badge. The move linked Our Lady s, then an independent school, firmly with local history and nearby Furness Abbey. The school had just 100 pupils when taken over by a charitable trust and board of governors. It now had 500 children. A red marble statue of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus once stood in the school grounds, but was moved in the 1980s to the grounds of St Mary s RC Church in Duke Street, Barrow.