Warrington Academy

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1A Academy St, Warrington WA1 2NR, UK

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N53° 23' 20" W2° 35' 24"   (53.388888888889, -2.59) Start navigation »

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Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the established Church of England. It was located in Warrington (then part of Lancashire, now within Cheshire). Formally dissolved in 1786, the funds then remaining were applied to the founding of Manchester New College in Manchester, which was effectively the Warrington Academy's successor, and in time this led to the formation of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
A statue of Oliver Cromwell stands in front of the academy.

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