St. Josephs College - Vannarpet

In 1888, the Catholic Bishop of Coimbatore, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Bardou, considered it opportune to start a school within the premises of their House in the Nilgiris. At the outset, before the establishment of our present school, a bungalow owned by the Catholic Mission in Wellington was utilized for the education of Catholic children. The Priests of the Society of the Paris Missions conducted the infant institution, which in the early years, had an enrolment of about forty students. With the increasing number of pupils, it was found necessary to shift the school to where sufficient accommodation could perhaps be obtained. Dr. Bardou, with considerable enterprise, obtained an extensive property in Coonoor and the work of the building was started in 1888. The main block was completed two years later and the pupils attending the School in Wellington were transferred to the new building in Coonoor still under the Priests of the Paris Foreign Mission.In 1892, the Management of the Sc