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.