Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England.
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16 Facts About Stonyhurst College
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Stonyhurst College 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.
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St Mary's Hall, on an adjoining site to Stonyhurst College, was built as a Jesuit seminary in 1828 and functioned until 1926, when the seminarians moved to Heythrop Hall.
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Stonyhurst College is Roman Catholic and has had a significant place in English Catholic history for many centuries.
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Stonyhurst College 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.
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Stonyhurst College's bones were temporarily removed in 2006 while the chapel underwent restoration, but they have since been returned.
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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.
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Until Roman Catholics were admitted to Oxbridge in 1854, Stonyhurst College was home to "philosopher gentlemen" studying BA courses under the London Matriculation Examination system.
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Stonyhurst College has four main libraries: the Arundell, the Bay, the Square and the More.
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Stonyhurst College has provided inspiration for poets and authors who include former classics teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose poems feature details of the local countryside, and former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose "Baskerville Hall" was modelled on Stonyhurst College Hall, and who named Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil.
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Stonyhurst College has a successful rugby season, with games well supported by pupils, staff and parents.
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The Stonyhurst College Sevens take place annually, attracting large crowds and teams from all over the country.
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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.
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Unlike most English public schools, Stonyhurst College is organised horizontally by year groups rather than vertically by houses, although the girls are split into junior and senior houses.
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Stonyhurst College has the following playrooms, following the Roman order of learning:.
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Stonyhurst College has educated prominent individuals in every area, from statesmen to sportsmen, and actors to archbishops.
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