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HISTORY OF MOUNT ST MARY'S COLLEGE |
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Mount St Mary's
College was first founded by Jesuit fathers at Stanley Grange near
Derby in 1620. At this time the Penal laws were fully implemented
against Catholics and the fathers of the English Province of the Society
of Jesus. It is one of the oldest foundations in the Midlands.
After numerous changes, the College was formally opened under the
dedication of the Immaculate Conception in the hamlet of Spinkhill,
a property of the Pole family. The College opened in 1842; its founder
was Rev. Randall Lythgoe, SJ Provincial of the Society of Jesus in
England.
The College buildings date, in part from the 16th and 17th centuries,
the Sodality Chapel being the earliest remaining building. The Jesuits
had a College at Holbeck Woodhouse, near Welbeck, which was raided
by the soldiers of Charles II and the furnishings were brought to
Spinkhill.
Joseph Hansom, an architect and inventor of the Hansom Cab built the
first College buildings in 1840. The Hopkins wing (girls) was constructed
a little later (1850) and the New College was begun in 1876 and completed
in 1912. The school Chapel, designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott was dedicated
as a war memorial in 1924. The Ante Chapel enshrines the names of
100 Old Mountaineers (Old Boys) who died in the Great War 1914 - 18.
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