Misplaced Pages

#574425

72-583: The Shireburn or Sherburne Baronetcy , of Stonyhurst in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of England . It was created on 4 February 1686 for Nicholas Shireburn. His only son predeceased him and the title became extinct on Shireburn's death in 1717. The substantial family estates devolved on his only surviving daughter, Maria Winifred Francisca Shireburn , wife of Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk . The Duchess of Norfolk died childless in 1754 when

144-776: A Jesuit-led chaplaincy team and the involvement of the Jesuits in its governance. The school has one main church, St Peter's , and five chapels: the Boys' Chapel, the Chapel of the Angels, the Sodality Chapel, the St Francis Chapel and the St Ignatius Chapel. The last two are both within the towers of St Peter's Church, and are not normally used by pupils. The Sodality Chapel is the home of

216-517: A challenge, written in Latin, to the boys in preparatory at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall , inviting them to compete in a cricket match. Preparatory respond in turn, also in Latin. The Rhetoricians take part wearing fancy dress, and are traditionally defeated by preparatory. In 2003, the tradition was adopted by the girls who issued a Latin challenge to preparatory girls inviting them to compete at rounders. The Stonyhurst Officer Training Corps assembled for

288-518: A choice of 25 subjects, with a weekly Theology class. One of these may be dropped and the remainder, or all, taken on to A-Level. Six A* – C grades are the requirement for Sixth Form entry. Each academic department has dedicated teaching rooms around the school, in addition to the general classrooms and playroom study places. Education during the college's early history was based on St Ignatius' Ratio Studiorum , with emphasis upon theology, classics and science, all of which still feature prominently in

360-590: A claim to being the oldest surviving preparatory school in Britain. In 2004, the old gymnasium at St Mary's Hall was converted into new nursery and infant facilities named Hodder House , for those aged three to seven. The college is Catholic and has had a significant place in English Catholic history for many centuries (including controversial events such as the Popish Plot and Gunpowder Plot conspiracies). It

432-655: A former pupil of the English Jesuit Colleges of St Omer and Liège, and a philanthropist, Weld stepped in to save the refugee Jesuit schools in France. He resolved in 1794 to donate his Lancashire estate, including the buildings, with 30 acres (120,000 m ) of land to the Society of Jesus for the purpose of settling them and their evacuated charges from Northern France and the Austrian Netherlands . The story of

504-473: A new building in 1866. The records of temperature taken there are the oldest continual daily records in the world. Today, the observatory is one of four used by the Met Office to provide temperature data for central England. The estate contains the two hamlets of Stockbridge and Woodfields, both of which are inhabited by teachers from Stonyhurst College . Hodder Place , the former site of the preparatory school

576-686: A road in Hurst Green) and the "River Shirebourn" (the Shireburns built Stonyhurst). Poet Laureate Alfred Austin , and the poet Oliver St John Gogarty ("Stately plump Buck Mulligan" in James Joyce's Ulysses) were educated at the school, (as were the sons of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh ). George Archer-Shee , at the centre of Terence Rattigan 's play The Winslow Boy , is an alumnus. The school runs its own publication company, St Omer's Press, which publishes religious literature, and first began when

648-716: A separate design and technology centre. Student artwork is displayed on the walls of the Lower Gallery, including a portrait of the Queen painted by Isobel Bidwell during the Golden Jubilee year; upon receipt of a copy, the Queen's lady-in-waiting said that "The Queen was delighted to see the painting and know that it is on display in the school". Stonyhurst has provided inspiration for poets and authors who include former classics teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins , whose poems feature details of

720-625: A variety of ways reflecting the spirit of succeeding generations. Recently, there has been a strong charitable emphasis, embedded with similar developments at the college. This was formalised in 1985, when the Association was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission . It also supports charities connected to the school including Eagle Aid . Stonyhurst has educated prominent individuals in every area, from statesmen to sportsmen, and actors to archbishops. Seven alumni have been awarded

792-510: Is Mary Tudor 's Book of Hours, which it is believed was given by Mary, Queen of Scots to her chaplain on the scaffold. The manuscript Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines was written in 1354 by Henry, Duke of Lancaster . To these were added the archives of the English Province of the Society of Jesus , which include 16th-century manuscript verses by St Robert Southwell SJ , the letters of St Edmund Campion SJ (1540–81) and holographs of

SECTION 10

#1733105013575

864-608: Is a feature of the Poetry Banquet and Rhetoric Ball. Drama is equally important, with plays staged throughout the school year, the main performance being at Great Academies , whilst some students take Theatre Studies as an additional AS Level subject. The college has a traditional theatre, the Academy Room, and a high-tech theatre built at St Mary's Hall as part of the Centenaries Appeal in 1993. The latter plays host to

936-676: Is central to the ethos of the school, which focuses upon the all-round development of the individual. It is inherited from the Shireburn family who once owned the original mansion on the site; the family emblem is emblazoned, in stone, with the motto, above the fireplace in the Top Refectory. Academic standards are high: 93% of GCSE students attain 9-4 grades; there is a 100% pass rate at A-Level ; and 100% of A-Level leavers take up places at universities (10% to Oxbridge ) or on gap year schemes. The school's most recent inspection rated much of

1008-587: Is now divided into residential flats which are privately owned; the grounds remain part of the estate. Richard Sherburne built an almshouse on Longridge Fell, the predecessor of the Sherburne Almshouse, which his son Sir Nicholas built in circa 1707. The latter was dismantled in 1946 and re-erected in Hurst Green . Religious monuments in the area are a reminder of the Jesuit presence and strength of Catholicism in

1080-727: Is now the Typographia Collegii , but was once one of seven important stations in the country when the Meteorological Office came under the auspices of the Royal Society . The records of temperature taken there start from 1846 and are the oldest continuous daily records in the world. During the nineteenth century, the observatory was maintained by the astronomer priests, Fr Alfred Weld , Fr Perry and Fr Sidgreaves whose research included astronomy, geomagnetrometry and seismology. Astrophysicist Pietro Angelo Secchi , director of

1152-506: Is the opening address of the headmaster at the beginning of the year to the entire school gathered in the Academy Room. Previously, it was a formal transition for pupils from one playroom to the next at the beginning of the year, which involved a pupil from each year announcing to the playroom of the year below them that the next playroom had been vacated by the senior pupils. The students and their belongings would then move up to their next playroom. "Great Academies" takes place annually at

1224-471: The English College left Benito Mussolini 's Italy and occupied the hall. After their return to Rome , St Mary's Hall opened as a middle school in 1946. At the same time, Hodder Place continued to educate those aged eight to eleven, until its closure and conversion into flats in 1970. Hodder Place pupils moved up to St Mary's Hall to form Hodder Playroom. As successor to Hodder Place, St Mary's Hall has

1296-557: The Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate , Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. The school has been fully co-educational since 1999. A precursor institution of the college was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer , at a time when penal laws prohibited Catholic education in England. After moving to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773,

1368-531: The Sacred Heart . The estate is a tourist attraction. Many visitors come to view the grade one listed Stonyhurst College which is open for tours during the summer. The gardens of the college are also open to visitors and include a small shop in the meteorological station. The area is also criss-crossed with public footpaths, in particular the Tolkien Trail, a walk around some of the areas thought to have inspired

1440-605: The See of York , preached. Hague’s Cross stands above the River Hodder in the woods close to the former Jesuit novitiate and preparatory school, Hodder Place. This commemorates the death of William Hague who drowned in the Hodder here (the old Stonyhurst bathing huts are located in Hodder Wood), on the 5th of April, 1877. The grounds of St Mary's Hall contain a Marian grotto and a statue of

1512-481: The Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire , England. It is centred on Stonyhurst College , occupying the great house, its preparatory school Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall and the parish church, St Peter's . The grounds are bounded by the River Hodder , the village of Hurst Green and Longridge Fell . The Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty overlaps in places. The earliest deed for

SECTION 20

#1733105013575

1584-534: The Stanihurst is held in the college's Arundell Library; it dates from approximately 1200. In 1372, a licence was granted to John de Bayley for an oratory on the site. His descendants, the Shireburn family , completed the oldest portion of the extant buildings. Richard Shireburn began building the hall, which was enlarged by his grandson Nicholas who also constructed the ponds, avenue and gardens. Following his death,

1656-509: The Vatican Observatory , also taught astronomy at the college during the period. Sir Edward Sabine chose the observatory as one of his main stations when conducting a magnetic survey of Britain in 1858. Five years later Fr Sidgreaves began the first series of monthly geometric observations, which continued until May 1919. During the course of the twentieth century, the observatory fell out of use and its telescope, parts of which dated to

1728-482: The 1860s, was sold after the Second World War. When its private owner came to sell it, the college was able to buy it back and restore it to its original home. The observatory is today used for astronomical purposes again, whilst also functioning as one of four weather stations used by the Met Office to provide central England temperature data (CET). Music plays a prominent rôle in school life. All those entering

1800-414: The 1920s, Jesuit priests were trained on site in what is today the preparatory school. There was a drop in vocations after World War I and the seminary was closed. The number of Jesuits teaching at Stonyhurst fell to a third of the staff within a decade. Since then, the Jesuit presence has been in decline, but the school continues to place Catholicism and Jesuit philosophy at its core under the guidance of

1872-641: The 19th-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins . The Arundell Library has a copy of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart , captured at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, and held the 7th-century Stonyhurst Gospel of St John before it was loaned to the British Library , as well as a First Folio of Shakespeare. Among those collections kept away from public view are numerous blood-soaked garments from Jesuits martyred in Japan,

1944-499: The Bay, and the Square) contain many artefacts from the Society of Jesus and English Catholicism. The Arundell Library, presented in 1837 by Everard, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour , is the most significant; it is not only a country-house library from Wardour Castle but also has a notable collection of 250 incunabula , medieval manuscripts and volumes of Jacobite interest, signal among which

2016-576: The England Schools U16 and U18 Rugby teams. These include Daniel Mckenzie and Andy Fuller who both received an U18 England cap in 2000. Stonyhurst Football, inherited from the College of St Omer (along with Stonyhurst Cricket), was played between the handball walls on the Playground. The game was discontinued with the advent of association football but was re-established in 1988 when a "Grand Match"

2088-540: The Jesuit Henry Garnet . In the Stuart Parlour are portraits of Jacobites including James Francis Edward Stuart , and his sons Charles Edward Stuart and Henry Benedict Stuart . There are also several original engravings by Rembrandt and Dürer , such as the 'Greater Passion' and the 'Car of Maximillian'. The school has a functioning observatory which was built in 1866. An older observatory, built in 1838,

2160-472: The Jesuits were forced to flee and re-established their school at Bruges . The school was moved in 1773 to Liège , where it operated for two decades before moving to Stonyhurst on 29 August 1794. Schooling resumed on 22 October that year. The college flourished during the 19th century: the Society of Jesus was re-established in Britain at Stonyhurst in 1803, and over the century, student numbers rose from

2232-530: The Latin phrase Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam which means For the Greater Glory of God . At the end of a piece of work they write L.D.S. in the centre of the page. It stands for Laus Deo Semper which means Praise to God Always . These are both traditional Jesuit mottoes. As a registered charity, Stonyhurst is obliged to provide benefits to the wider community under the terms of the Charities Act 2006 . As such,

Shireburn baronets - Misplaced Pages Continue

2304-516: The Rhetoric Ball and Rhetoric Mass the following morning. Stonyhurst College has one sister school in Penang , Malaysia , called Stonyhurst International School Penang . After less formal arrangements had been made for many years, the Association was formed in 1879. Its primary objective is to foster a strong spirit of union amongst past pupils and friends of Stonyhurst, which has been achieved in

2376-644: The Sherburnes, who had earlier fled to Oxford to build and dwell in Beam Hall, subsequently emigrated to New England , where they contributed in various ways to the early history of the United States ; these descendants included Henry Sherburne and John Sherburne . Stonyhurst College and Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall are Jesuit boarding schools with approximately 800 pupils in total, most of whom are boarders. The schools are connected by parallel footpaths through

2448-624: The Shireburn estates passed to Weld cousins at Lulworth Castle , through her aunt Elizabeth Shireburn. In 1794 Thomas Weld (of Lulworth) donated the Stonyhurst estate to the English Jesuits whose school on the continent was in danger from the French Revolutionary Wars , and it became the site of a Catholic school, Stonyhurst College . Stonyhurst Stonyhurst is the name of a 1,000-acre (4 km ) rural estate owned by

2520-458: The annual Ribble Valley International Piano Week. Several former pupils have gone on to achieve success upon the stage, including OSCAR -winning actor and director Charles Laughton and BAFTA -winning director and producer Peter Glenville . Art is an important part of the curriculum, and is compulsory for those in Lower Grammar (year nine). There is a dedicated art studio in addition to

2592-589: The author during his stay at the college in the late 1940s. Public events hosted on the estate include the Great British Food Festival and the Ribble Valley International Piano Week. Other visitors come to make use of the extensive sports facilities, including a golf course, swimming pool and astroturf hockey pitch. Stonyhurst College Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Catholic private school, adhering to

2664-413: The building was, at that time, incomplete). Four old crosses stand at disparate locations around the estate. Pupils from the school used to visit each cross in an annual pilgrimage to mark Palm Sunday . The Pinfold Cross is a memorial to a former servant at Stonyhurst College and fiddler, James Wells, who fell to his death in a quarry nearby on 12 February 1834. It was erected in 1834 at Stockbridge. On

2736-564: The centre of which is a stone statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St Peter's Church underwent extensive repair and refurbishment in 2010–11. Most of the Victorian stencilling was not restored, although the whitewash was removed from the stencilling above the altar. It is a long-standing practice, as with many Jesuit schools around the world, that pupils write A.M.D.G. in the top left hand corner of any piece of work they do. It stands for

2808-470: The college is home to the local Catholic parish church, which receives worshippers from Hurst Green every day. Its sports facilities, including the swimming pool and all-weather pitch are available for public use; the latter was used for competitors training for the London 2012 Olympic Games . Much of the estate has public access; in particular the gardens and tea house are visited during the summer months, while

2880-527: The college plays host to tours, antiques fairs, food festivals, music concerts, conferences and weddings. The school has relationships with several state schools , arranging shared activities with their pupils, in particular those serving special needs children. In addition, the school makes available some places to pupils offered on scholarship, bursaries or free of charge; almost a third of current pupils receive financial support for their places. The French motto Quant je puis , 'As much as I can'

2952-503: The college was headed for oblivion, but for the generosity of an old boy , Thomas Weld (of Lulworth) , who intervened. Weld's enormous benefaction enabled the expatriated school to establish itself on English soil in 1794 when it was granted the Stonyhurst estate. It provides boarding and day education to approximately 450 boys and girls aged 13–18. On an adjacent site, its preparatory school , St Mary's Hall , provides education for boys and girls aged 3–13. The earliest deed concerning

Shireburn baronets - Misplaced Pages Continue

3024-459: The college was located at St Omer in Flanders . Pupils are required to participate in games on a regular basis. The school plays rugby union and other sports. Since turning fully co-educational, hockey and rounders have widened the sports programme. Stonyhurst College Rugby Union Football Club (SCRUFC) has played a big part in the life of the school, despite only supplanting football as

3096-782: The country. The school has produced sixteen international rugby players (England (5), Ireland (6), Scotland (1) Italy (1), the USA (1) Bermuda (1) and the Bahamas (1)), as well as players for the Barbarians and the British and Irish Lions. Most recently they include Iain Balshaw and Kyran Bracken , who both played for England when they won the 2003 Rugby World Cup , whilst another member of that team, Will Greenwood , went to Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall , where his mother taught maths until 2007. Current pupils of

3168-406: The curriculum. The educational practice, observed at the College of St Omer , of dividing a class into Romans and Carthaginians continued long after the migration to Stonyhurst but is not employed today; each pupil would be pitched against an opponent with the task of picking up on the other's mistakes in an attempt to score points. Until Catholics were admitted to Oxbridge in 1854, Stonyhurst

3240-607: The education and pastoral provision as 'outstanding'. In 2023, 40% of students scored A*-A for A Levels while 46% of students that took the GCSEs scored 9-7. Ten GCSEs are usually taken by each pupil, consisting of five compulsory subjects (Religious Studies, Mathematics , English Language and Literature , and a modern language (French, German or Spanish) plus Information Technology and Personal, Social Education, with five other options from humanities, sciences, or arts subjects. In Poetry (lower sixth), four or five AS-Levels are taken from

3312-408: The end of the first half of the summer term. Although different in its present form, it is a continuation of a tradition begun at St Omers, with the first taking place at Stonyhurst on 6 August 1795. Today, it is an occasion when the school is on display – there are exhibitions, musical performances, the school play, sporting events, as well as prize-giving and the headmaster's speech, culminating with

3384-465: The estate dates back to 1200 A.D. when it was known as the "Stanihurst". It passed through the Bayley family to their descendants, the Shireburns ("Sherburnes" etc), before passing into the hands of Thomas Weld (of Lulworth) . Already possessing a large estate, he donated it to the Jesuits in 1794 as a new home for their school , of which he was an old boy when it was located at Liège . A junior branch of

3456-501: The estate passed to his wife and then to sole heir, their daughter, Mary, the Duchess of Norfolk . In 1754, it was inherited by her cousin, Edward Weld (Senior) . After his death it passed to Weld's eldest son, also Edward . Edward, who was to be Maria Fitzherbert 's first husband, fell off his horse three months after the wedding and died intestate; the estate passed to Edward senior's third son and Edward's youngest brother, Thomas . As

3528-758: The first time on 16 October 1900, in the Ambulacrum, overseen by The First Volunteer Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment who gave instruction in drill and musketry. The original uniform was scarlet with a white piping and slouch hat, which was changed to khaki before the First World War . The Corps was granted the honour of representation at the Coronation of 1910 and sent members to the Royal Review at Windsor in 1911. It also appeared on parade annually for

3600-607: The following platoons named after Stonyhurst's seven Victoria Cross winners: Those in Grammar Playroom (year ten) are automatically enrolled in the CCF and are given the option of continuing at the end of the year, following a summer camp which takes place at a local barracks. Training involves a range of activities such as drill (marching and related manoeuvres), shooting, learning how to assemble and clean weapons, tactical planning and team work. The school supplies pupils with uniform,

3672-456: The front is inscribed the legend, ‘WATCH FOR YOU KNOW NOT THE DAY NOR HOUR.' Above this is written, ‘OFT EVENINGS GLAD MAKE MORNINGS SAD'. On the left is ‘PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF JAMES WELLS' and on the right, ‘DIED FEB. 12TH, 1834'. Saint Paulinus' Cross stands at Kemple End and is a listed monument believed to date from Anglo-Saxon times. It may well mark a spot at which Saint Paulinus of York , who converted King Edwin of Northumbria and founded

SECTION 50

#1733105013575

3744-407: The gardens. The 20th century saw the gradual hiring of a mostly lay staff, as the number of Jesuits declined. The seminary at St Mary's Hall was closed, and the school discontinued its education of university-aged philosophers. With the closure of Beaumont College in 1967 and the transfer away from the Society of Jesus of Mount St Mary's College , Spinkhill, Derbyshire, in 2006, Stonyhurst became

3816-496: The hands of the Jesuits as part of the estate donated by alumnus Thomas Weld. Originally used as a novitiate , it became a preparatory school to the college in 1807. St Mary's Hall , on an adjoining site to Stonyhurst, was built as a Jesuit seminary in 1828 (extended in the 1850s) and functioned until 1926, when the seminarians moved to Heythrop Hall . The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins , and John Tolkien, son of J. R. R. Tolkien , trained as priests there. During World War II ,

3888-596: The local countryside, and former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose "Baskerville Hall" was modelled on Stonyhurst Hall, and who named Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote part of The Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the Upper Gallery during his stay at the college where his son taught Classics; his " Middle-earth " is said to resemble the local area, while there are specific resonances in names such as "Shire Lane", (the name of

3960-437: The locality. Most notably, the Lady Statue at the top of the Avenue connecting Stonyhurst College with Hurst Green. It was erected in 1882, and inscribed with the words "Ave Maria". Cromwell's rock is situated at the top of the Avenue, near St Peter's church graveyard. According to tradition, Cromwell stood on this inconspicuous stone and described the mansion ahead of him as "the finest half-house in England" (the symmetry of

4032-428: The orderliness of which is rigorously enforced and inspected each week. Each platoon is led by a Junior Under Officer , his sergeant and corporals who are sixth form students. Some pupils have gone on to receive places at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . This follows a long tradition of service from Stonyhurst pupils: many Old Stonyhurst (O.S.) were killed in the two World Wars and are commemorated on

4104-448: The original twelve migrants from Liège. By the turn of the following century, it had become England's largest Catholic college. Stonyhurst Hall underwent extensive alterations and additions to accommodate these numbers; the Old South Front was constructed in 1810, only to be demolished and replaced with much grander buildings in the 1880s. A seminary was constructed on the estate , and an observatory and meteorological station erected in

4176-436: The playrooms, having a sequence of playroom masters (rather than a single housemaster). In addition to the horizontal division of the school into playrooms, there is also a vertical grouping which cuts through the year groups, the "lines", and is used mostly for competitive purposes in sport and music. The lines and colours are as follows: The Ascensio Scholarum , inherited from the College of St Omer , in its present form,

4248-436: The relics of the 3rd-century Roman convert St Gordianus . The Jesuits brought his remains from the College of St Omer and held them beneath the altar since 1859. His bones were temporarily removed in 2006 while the chapel underwent restoration, but they have since been returned. The chapel is again used by the re-established Sodality . Adjacent to the Old Infirmary is the Rosary Garden, a place for spiritual contemplation, at

4320-406: The school have won places to represent Spain, Mexico (under 19s) the Irish Exiles and the Welsh Exiles (under 19s). Old boys have also played at varsity level and have won blues for Oxford or Cambridge. Stonyhurst has had well-known coaches, including former England coaches Ben Sanders , Dick Greenwood and Brian Ashton who coached the first XV. Many pupils have represented Stonyhurst in

4392-410: The school in Lower Grammar (year nine) are obliged to learn to play an orchestral instrument. There are two choirs: the Chapel Choir, which sings regularly at mass, and the Schola Cantorum , composed of teachers and pupils, which sings at concerts and public events such as the May celebration in the college amphitheatre. Pupils participate in the school orchestra and various bands, whilst the staff band

SECTION 60

#1733105013575

4464-406: The school may be traced back to establishments in St Omer in what was then the Spanish Netherlands in 1593, where a college, under the Royal Patronage of Philip II of Spain , was founded by Fr Robert Persons SJ for English boys unable to receive a Catholic education in Elizabethan England . As such it was one of several expatriate English schools operating on the European mainland. In 1762,

4536-525: The school's primary sport in 1921. All boys are encouraged to play when they enter Lower Grammar but are not required to play throughout their time at the school. Stonyhurst has a successful rugby season, with games well supported by pupils, staff and parents. Sporting rivalry is particularly prominent against fellow Catholic independent schools Ampleforth College , Mount St Mary's College and Sedbergh School in Cumbria . The Stonyhurst Sevens take place annually, attracting large crowds and teams from all over

4608-400: The site. Adjacent to the school buildings are workshops employing masons and craftsmen working on the maintenance and restoration of the buildings. There is a large mill which was once a granary but is currently used as a sawmill. The Church of St Peter is the parish church for the neighbouring village of Hurst Green . The Stonyhurst Observatory began operations in 1838, transferring to

4680-410: The skull of Cardinal Morton , ropes used to quarter St Edmund Campion SJ , hair of St Francis Xavier SJ , an enormous solid silver jewel-encrusted monstrance , the Wintour vestments, a cope made for Henry VII , and a thorn said to be from the crown of thorns placed upon Jesus' head at the crucifixion . The school owns paintings, including a portrait of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and another of

4752-403: The sole Jesuit public school in England. Since the Second World War , the buildings have been refurbished or developed. Additions include new science buildings in the 1950s and 1960s, a new boarding wing in the 1960s, a new swimming pool in the 1980s and Weld House in 2010. The school became fully co-educational in 1999. The original preparatory school to Stonyhurst, Hodder Place , came into

4824-406: The spectacle of the Corpus Christi celebrations until the practice became obsolete after Vatican II . After the Second World War , school OTCs were succeeded by the Combined Cadet Force . Stonyhurst's is run from the College Armoury adjoining the Ambulacrum and Shooting Range, led by a team of officers under a Major assigned to the school. It meets weekly on a Thursday afternoon and comprises

4896-507: The war memorial at the end of the Upper Gallery. The Stonyhurst War Records were published in their honour. A memorial at the top of the main staircase records the names of the six O.S. killed in the Boer War . Unlike most English public schools, Stonyhurst is organised horizontally by year groups (known as playrooms) rather than vertically by houses, although the girls are also split into junior and senior houses. Each playroom has an assigned playroom master, with each cohort moving through

4968-451: The woods, known as Brothers' Walk. The name derives from the fact that before the schools became co-educational, pupils from the college would take the route to visit their younger brothers at Saint Mary's Hall although the term could originate from when St Mary's Hall operated as a seminary for trainee Jesuits. They walked along the path reciting the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius . A number of teachers and Jesuit priests work and live on

5040-416: Was also home to "philosopher gentlemen" studying BA courses under the London Matriculation Examination system. Their numbers began to fall after 1894 and the department was closed in 1916. Stonyhurst College has four main libraries: the Arundell, the Bay, the Square and the More (dedicated to Saint Thomas More ). The More Library is the main library for students while the 'House Libraries' (the Arundell,

5112-434: Was founded initially to educate English Catholics on the continent in the hope that, through them, Catholicism might be restored in England. Finally, the school settled in England in 1794 and the Society of Jesus was officially re-established in Britain in 1803. Stonyhurst remained the headquarters of the English Province until the middle of the century; by 1851, a third of the Province's Jesuits were based there. Until

5184-533: Was played at Great Academies; traditionally a "Grand Match" was played on Shrove Tuesday and was the primary Stonyhurst Football match of the season. The teams were England vs France (although during the Crimean War England vs Russia was played and more recently England vs Ireland was played in the 1980s). The last game took place in 1995. Towards the end of the Summer Term each year, Rhetoric boys issue

#574425