Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is a boarding school independent Jésuite English catholic located close of the village to Clitheroe in Lancashire in England. The school is close to the village of Hurst Green, and the Hodder river. She educates the boys and the girls old from 13 to 18 years. Saint Mary' S Hall, an adjacent college offers education to the older children from 3 to 13 years. Its pupils include three Saints, twelve Happy and seven member elects of Victoria Cross.

History

Beginnings

Stonyhurst as entity knew two stories, which are described here. The building, now known under the name of Stonyhurst College, was in the beginning a manor, had by the minor nobility of Lancashire, while the school itself was at the origin based with Saint-Omer (Apple-brandy) in France until she emigrated in Lancashire.

Stonyhurst Hall

The building of Stonyhurst Hall was rested by the catholic, Richard Shireburn, who built the house of the guard and the turns on the upper part of an old colony in 1592 (the ancestors of Shireburn: the Baileys family lived here previously). During the civil wars, Oliver Cromwell spent one night to Stonyhurst and slept on a table in the middle of the large hall before the battle of Preston in 1648. He slept with his armor to stop his potential murderer with the hands of the catholics, who were also defenders of the king.

Its successor and wire, Nicolas Shireburn, began a project of extension of building to prolong “half house”, and carried out the large hall, the gardens and the avenue so that the whole corresponds to a manor. Unfortunately, his/her Richard son was poisoned in the gardens in 1702 and without the male heir, Nicolas ceased building. To died of Nicolas, in 1717, the buildings were yielded to his wife, then on their single heir: Mary, duchess of Norfolk. The duchess was married in Thomas Howard, the 8th duke of Norfolk and lived in the castle of Arundel, very far from Stonyhurst. So the buildings started to be dilapidated. Finally, the houses were inherited by his/her cousin, Thomas Weld in 1754. Living already in the castle of Lulworth and not needing an additional Hall, Thomas gave it to the Society of Jesus in 1794. The village of Hurst Green, Lancashire developed at the same time as the Hall.

the college

The history began with Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) in France in 1593, where a college was rested by the Father Robert Parsons for the English boys prevented from receiving a catholic education in England élisabéthaine. During several centuries, many Catholic schools last expatrier, because Catholicism was proscribed in England. In 1762, when the French Parliament opposed the Jésuites, the English college was forced to leave the territory. The following decades, when the order of the Jesuits was removed in the majority of the countries, this college was one of the rare establishments which succeeds in continuing to function. After Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), the college settled with Bruges, Belgium, where it continued to function until in 1773 when it was once again forced to move, this time at Liege, under the protection of the Prince-bishop. Liege is now in Belgium. In 1794, the college returned to England where new buildings were found to him in Stonyhurst Hall in Lancashire. this canton was ideal for the installation of the college, because area mainly catholic.

From 1794 to 1960

When the pupils of Liege returned in Stonyhurst Hall, the buildings were in very bad condition, a provisional building was built beside wing-is to place the boys. This “provisional” building always exists and is known as a shirk .

Other buildings were built at the beginning of the 19th century, of which in particular the new church Saint Pierre, by respecting the Gothic model of King' S College (Cambridge). In the years 1880, new work started at the school, in particular the displacement of the Large Staircases, and later the construction of the western wing. The provisional structures of the “shirk” and the new western wing of the school were useful well, but at the end of the 19th century the school still had épandre and of new work had to be carried out in the south, in particular the building Boys Chapel . A new meeting room (become now a theater) was also built, called Academy Room . This work took much time, because most of the grounds was in fact a marshy zone. So they had to dig to clean ground, which took much time. During, Stonyhurst was an arts center and also a principal Jesuit place to practice scientific activities, in particular meteorology and astronomy (an observatory was built in 1838). The school was also glorifiée to educate philosophers. These philosophers were in fact of the students who followed an additional course above level of college at one moment when one one prohibited catholics by an English law and also by a papal prohibition to deal of Oxford and Cambridge. The illumination with gas was another technological innovation which appeared early at the school during this period. The school produced its own electrical energy. In the years 1960, the school knew a certain number of changes, partly reflecting those of the Catholic church after the Concile Vatican II. The number of professors Jesuits fell constantly by with the changes of the priorities of the catholic Religious orders and with the reduction in the English province of the Jesuits. With the increase in the number of pupils, Stonyhurst had once again to increase and a new wing was built, located close to the wing set up in the years 1800 to place the library Arundell .

From 1980 to our days

In the Eighties, the university of Stonyhurst accommodated its first director, Gilles Mercer, in 1986, succeeding Fr Michael Bossy SJ, after fifteen years last. Mercer brought a certain number of changes during its function and developed certain particular sectors of the school. At the end of the Eighties, the school opened a new swimming pool of interior, a new course of squash, a new sports hall (there was no yet sports hall with Stonyhurst) and had given to nine of various classrooms and plays. Scenes of the men of the film three and small Madam were turned in Stonyhurst. In 1993 the school celebrated its 400 years of existence and in 1994 it celebrated its 200 years with Stonyhurst Hall. Mercer, launched a call to the gifts to make it possible to renovate the school in particular the restoration of the laboratories of science, the Bread rooms , the rooms of language, Ambulacrum (sports hall) and the many ones of other parts. The call was also launched to build a new theater of centenaries. A play, composed by Fr William Hewett SJ, was played in the new theater describing the history of Stonyhurst. Adrian Aylward succeeded Mercer in 1996 and the school continued to open out during its ten years of directorate. In 1997, Stonyhurst began its evolution until becoming entirely mixed and introduced girls to the private elementary school, Saint Mary' S Hall. The passage to co-education caused a reorganization of the school, in particular the reorganization of the dormitories. This also meant that the wing of infirmary ceased to be employed with its original function and a medical center was thus built in Shireburn Quad . At the beginning of the 21e century, the school standards are high. The school obtains with an effective body teaching and small classes, sometimes with only three or four pupils. The majority of these pupils continue their studies to go in prestigious universities, like Oxford or Cambridge. In a few years, the school has refused to publish the results of the examinations because it estimates that they are useless. In 2005, after ten years, Aylward announced its resignation in June 2006. Andrew Johnson succeeded Aylward in September 2006.

List pastors and directors

Until 1961, the functions of director were fallen to the vice-chancellor. The following lists show the vice-chancellors since 1794 and the directors since the separation of the two roles.

Vice-chancellors

Marmaduke Stone (1794 - 1808)
Nicholas Sewall (1808 - 1813)
John Weld (1813 - 1816)
Nicholas Sewall (1816 - 1817)

Pastors and directors

Charles Plowden SJ (1817 - 1819)
Joseph Tristram SJ (1819 - 1827)
Richard Norris SJ (1827 - 1832)
Richard Parker SJ (1832 - 1836)
John Brownbill SJ (1836 - 1839)
Francis Daniel SJ (1839 - 1841)
Andrew Barrow SJ (1841 - 1845)
Richard Norris SJ (1845 - 1846)
Henry Walmesley SJ (1846 - 1847)
Richard Sumner SJ (1847 - 1848)
Francis Clough SJ (1848 - 1861)
Joseph Johnson SJ (1861 - 1868)
Charles Henry SJ (1868 - 1869)
Edward Purbick SJ (1869 - 1879)
William Eyre SJ (1879 - 1885)
Reginald Collie SJ (1885 - 1891)
Hermann Walmesley SJ (1891 - 1898)
Joseph Browne SJ (1898 - 1906)
Pedro Gordon SJ (1906 - 1907)
William Bodkin SJ (1907 - 1916)
Edward O' Connor SJ (1916 - 1924)
Walter Weld SJ (1924 - 1929)
Richard Worsley SJ (1929 - 1932)
Edward O' Connor SJ (1932 - 1938)
Leo Belton SJ (1938 - 1945)
Bernard Swindells SJ (1945 - 1952)
Francis Vavasour SJ (1952 - 1958)
Desmond Boyle SJ (1958 - 1961)

Directors

Frederick J.Turner SJ (1961 - 1963)
George Earle SJ (1963 - 1971)
Michael Bossy SJ (1971 - 1985)
Gilles Mercer (1985 - 1996)
Adrian Aylward (1996 - 2006)
Andrew Johnson (2006 - until today)

Directors of Saint Mary' S Hall

Rae Casing
Peter Anwyl
Rory O' Brien
Michael Higgins
Lawrence Crouch

Files and libraries

The university of Stonyhurst has four libraries: Arundell , Bay , Public garden and More (called Thomas More then). The libraries Arundell and Square contain the many ones of objects worked by the Society of Jesus and English Catholicism. The library Arundell , presented in 1837 by Everard, the 11th baron Arundell de Wardour, is most important. It is not only one library of the castle of Wardour, but also has a certain number of manuscripts incunabula , medieval and books of Jacobite. The library Arundell also contained the Gospel of Stonyhurst, before it is lent to the British library. To the latter the files of the English province of the Society of Jesus were added. Those included the worms of the manuscript of the 16th century of Robert Southwell, the letters of Edmond Campion (1540-1581) and holographic of the poet of the 19th century Gerald Manley Hopkins. The school also asserts a certain number of very beautiful paintings in all the buildings, in particular some sublimes portraits, of which in particular that of Nicolas Ier of Russia, that of Henry Garnet and the portraits of unquestionable Jacobites, in their Stuart living room including/understanding: Jacques François Stuart, his brother Charles Edouard Stuart and Henri Benoit Stuart.

Religious life

The school is of tradition catholic and was interlaced with English Catholicism during many centuries, in particular a certain conspiracy. At the 19th century, the school was the provincial curia of the English province Jesuit during the many ones of years, formed of the priests and the brothers for the order, in particular the poet Gerald Manley Hopkins in Saint Mary' S Hall.

The school is equipped with a principal church: the church Saint Pierre and five vaults: The Servant boys , Angels , Sodality , and two inside the church Saint Pierre.

Its last years, the number of Jésuites student in Stonyhurst slowly fell, but the school knew to preserve the order through its history, its retreat, its religious life, its board of directors and his small community of Jesuit. Since the Concile Vatican II, the Jesuits worked extremely to create a partnership between the believing people and not believing. The schools of Jesuit are supported by a very solid network coordinated by the director of the education of Jesuit based with Mayfair in London. The Catholicism and the identity of Jesuit are still and always in the middle of the school and this can be seen by their monthly blessing, their daily voluntary mass, their mass of Sunday and celebration of the festivals of Christmas.

The identity of Jesuit of the school is summarized in a quotation of the current director Andrew Johnson: " Creating people off Good Judgment, Clarity off Thought and Principled Leaders for the Next Generation." " Creating people of good judgment, clearness of thought and chiefs of principles for next the génération."

The spirit of the Jesuits has three main components:

Creation of the men for some and the women for others. The students are encouraged to develop and employ their competences to make evolve/move medicine and with the law for example. They are very popular choices of careers. An good example is the project “Chiwirangwe” which twins Stonyhurst with the school Jesuit St Peter' S Kubatana (Zimbabwe). The project is organized by the province of Jesuit as an element of their program of companions which twins each of the nine British schools of Jesuit with schools of Jesuit of the whole world for the advantages of the two schools. The bachelors of Stonyhurst also on the occasion to take one year of interruption while working on international Jesuits projects.

Spirituality ignacian, based on the spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignace de Loyola trustful, is included and opened, encouraging the school and its students to be begun in complexities of the modern life. A catholic education of Jesuit provides strong foundations in the lesson of the Catholic church although she encourages also a robust philosophical engagement with the faith and the morals questions.

Well developed competences of reasoning are seen as essential so that the students think by their faith. The Jesuits remain with before in the intellectual life of the Catholic church, with much of world universities. They direct faculties of Oxford (Campion Hall) and London (Heythrop College). Stonyhurst aims at developing strong competences and a logical thought in the students, so that they can be trustful in their faith, that they have a pure thought in all the aspects of the life and thus become brilliant people of good opinion.

Stonyhurst also assists and plays big role in the annual pilgrimage of catholic association with Lourdes. The school organizes also a flourishing Retirement of Easter every year for Association, the parents and friends.

Chorus of Stonyhurst

At the origin made up in 1894 to celebrate the 100 years of the establishment of the university in Lancashire.

Old Alma MATER, here' S to thee! Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! Length life and all prosperity! Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! While generations like and go, While boyhood doth to manhood grow, Be aye the same we used to know, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! More bright Be every coming year! Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! More proud each step off thy career! Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! And may thy sounds that are to Be More worthy service bring to thee, Honest goal not more hearts than we, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!

Thy sounds in every Land are known, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! In all they prove them for thine own, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! And limits across each distant hand, Unintermitting From every our strain Shall as in echoes back again, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!

Old college off the eagle towers, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst: Thy honor shall through life Be bear, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst! Give Fresh triumphs custom year by year Off study and off play to hear, And back to thee return the cheer, Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!

L.D.S.

The chorus of Stonyhurst is traditionally sung every year.

Slogan

As I Then - Ace much ace I edge It is a habit of long time which the students at the school write a AMDG in the higher corner of their left hand of any work than they carry out. It represents the Latin expression AD maiorem Dei gloriam what means " For the greatest glory of Dieu". At the end of a work, they write L.D.S. in the center of the page. What represents “Laus Deo Semper” : “To always speak in praise with God”. They are the two traditional currencies of Jesuit.

Organization of the life schoolgirl

With the difference of the majority of the public English schools, Stonyhurst is organized horizontally by groups of year (known under the name of playrooms ) rather than vertically by houses. Each playrooms has a chief of playrooms . All the residences for the interns are in the College, with the spaces separated for each playrooms .

Various levels

Currently, the names of year used with Stonyhurst and Saint Mary' S Hall are the following (with the approximate ages):

With Saint Mary' S Hall

Preparatory ( Prep , 8 to 9 years)
Elements (9 to 10 years)
Lower Figures (10 to 11 years)
Upper Figures (11 to 12 years)
Rudiments ( Ruds , 12 to 13 years)

In Stonyhurst College

Lower Grammar ( LG 13 to 14 years)
Grammar (14 to 15 years)
Syntax (15 to 16 years, year of the GCSE)
Poetry (16 to 17 years)
Rhetoric (17 to 18 years)

Groups

Rather to classify its pupils by houses, Stonyhurst classify them by category by of Lines. Lines and the associated colors are:

Campion (red) (St Edmund Campion)
St Omers (maroon) (after the street St Omer, the school was here founded)
Shireburn (green) (the Shireburn family which builds Stonyhurst)
Weld' (blue) (the Weld family which gave Stonyhurst)

Junior Body - Body by the juniors

The Cadet Body are the following, seven of them were named after having gained the School' S VC .

Juniors

Costello Platoon (Lieutenant Edmund William COSTELLO V.C., Matakand, India 1897)
Coury Platoon (Lieutenant replacing George Gabriel COURY V.C., Guillemont, Nap 1916)
Liddell Platoon (Captain John Aiden LIDDELL V.C, Ostend, Belgium 1915)
Kenna Platoon (Captain Paul Aloysius KENNA V.C., Khartoum, Sudan 1898)

Seniors

Dease Platoon (lieutenant Maurice James DEASE V.C., Mons, Belgium 1914)
Jackman Platoon (captain James Joseph Bernard JACKMAN V.C., ED Duda, Tobrouk 1941)
Andrews Platoon (captain Harold Marcus ERVINE-ANDREWS V.C., Dunkirk 1940)
Support Platoon

These last years, a certain number of pupils were distinguished like members from the CCF and continued to receive places with the royal military academy of Sandhurst.

Rugby with 15 in Stonyhurst

Fourteen international players of Rugby of England (5), of Ireland (6), of Scotland (1), Italy (1) and the United States (1) were educated in Stonyhurst. Recently they include Balshaw and Kyran Bracken, these two players played for England as soon as it gained the world cup. Another member of this team, Greenwood, was educated in Saint Mary' S Hall.

Stonyhurst had recently famous trainers, in particular the former trainer of England, Dick Greenwood and the current trainer, Brian Ashton (although it went to the royal college of Lancaster), and this can explain the success of the team well.

The association of Stonyhurst

Association was born in 1879, but one found traces of his existence 60 years before. The list of presidents nevertheless is supplemented since 1879.

The primary goal of association is to promote a strong spirit of union among the pupils and the friends of Stonyhurst College. Recently, that be obviousness by a strong charitable emphase, included with the similar developments in the university. This was formalized in 1985, when association had obtained the charitable statute by the Charity Commission after having adopted certain objectives of which in particular this one: “To unit and associate, past and present pupils and friends off charitable Stonyhurst in the carrying one off any off the following purposes (whether in the United Kingdom gold elsewhere)” Association also supports a certain number of charities related to the school, in particular Eagle Aid.

Pupils

Stonyhurst produced twenty-two saints and martyrs.

Stonyhurst also counts among its pupils seven member elects of Victoria Cross, the highest reward for the audacity. Their paintings decorate the walls of the school today.

The pupils and the most known professors having been with Stonyhurst are:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes
Charles Laughton, actor
Eduardo López de Romaña, businessman and politicking Peruvian, former president of Peru (1899-1903)
Cardinal Herbert Vaughan (cardinal and archbishop of Westminster)
Charles Waterton, naturalist
George Herbert " Bert" Walker
Frederick Turner SJ
Gerald Manley Hopkins SJ

More recently:

Chris Morris, satirist, celebrate for Brass Eye .
Macdonald Hastings, journalist, war journalist and correspondent
Paul Johnson and historian
To mark Thompson, managing director of the BBC
Bishop Crispian Hollis, diocese of Portsmouth
King Fr Nicolas SJ, recently translated the New Testament for the editors of Kevin Mayhew.
Patrick Baladi, actor (in particular in The Office )
Hugh Wooldridge, theater director
Bill Cash MP, preserving member of Parliament

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