Lancing College
Lancing College (formerly College of St Mary and St Nicolas) | |
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Type | Public school Private day and boarding |
Motto | 'Beati Mundo Corde'[1] (Blessed are the pure in heart)[2] |
Religious affiliation(s) | Church of England |
Established | 1848 |
Founder | Nathaniel Woodard |
Department for Education URN | 126108 Tables |
Chairman | Martin Slumbers |
Head Master | Dominic Oliver |
Provost | Jonathan Meyrick |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 13 to 18 |
Enrolment | c.600 |
Houses | 10 (Gibbs', School, Head's, Second's, Handford, Sankey's, Field's, Manor, Saints', Teme) |
Colour(s) | Blue and White and Gold |
Publication | The Quad |
Former pupils | OLs |
Affiliation | Woodard Corporation |
Website | www |
Lancing College is a public school (English private boarding and day school) for pupils aged 13–18 in southern England, UK. The school is located in West Sussex, east of Worthing near the village of Lancing, on the south coast of England. Lancing was founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard and educates c. 600 pupils between the ages of 13 and 18; the co-educational ratio is c. 60:40 boys to girls. Girls were admitted beginning in 1971. The first co-ed, Saints’ House, was established in September 2018, bringing the total number of Houses to 10. There are 5 male houses (Gibbs, School, Teme, Heads, Seconds) and 4 female houses (Fields, Sankeys, Manor, Handford).
Overview
The college is situated on a hill which is part of the South Downs, and the campus dominates the local landscape. The college overlooks the River Adur, and the Ladywell Stream, a holy well or sacred stream within the College grounds, has pre-Christian significance.[3] Woodard's aim was to provide education "based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith," and the discipline of the prefect's cane. However John Dancy was appointed headmaster in 1953 to improve academic standards, which had taken second place to prowess in sport. Lancing was the first of a family of more than 30 schools founded by Woodard. Other schools include Ardingly College, Bloxham School, The Cathedral School, Denstone College, and Ellesmere College.
Roughly 65% of pupils are either full or weekly boarders, at a cost of £14,850 per term; 35% are day pupils, at a cost of £10,150 per term. Occasional overnight stays are available to day pupils at an additional cost of £74 per night.[4][5]
The school is a member of the
The school's buildings of the 1850s were designed by the architect
In 2003, it was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.[6] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.
Chapel
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The foundation stone of the college chapel was laid in 1868, but the chapel itself was not finished in Woodard's lifetime. It stands at about 50 metres (with foundations going down 20 metres into the ground), but the original plans called for a tower at the west end which would raise the height to 100 metres. The apex of the vaulting rises to 27.4 m (90 ft).[7] It was designed by R. H. Carpenter and William Slater, and is built of Sussex sandstone from Scaynes Hill.
The chapel was dedicated to St Mary and St Nicholas in 1911, although the college worshipped in the finished crypt from 1875. St Nicholas is the patron saint of children. Inside can be found, among other things, the tomb of the founder, three organs, and a rose window designed by Stephen Dykes Bower, completed in 1977, and the largest rose window in England, being 32 ft in diameter. People acknowledge it as the largest school chapel in the world, despite the fact that there appears to be no study or survey publicly available that can confirm that.
The eastern organ is a two-manual mechanical organ built by the Danish firm Frobenius and was installed and voiced in situ in 1986. That year also marked the completion of the rebuild of the four-manual Walker organ at the west end of the chapel[8] – both of which were showcased in the opening concert by the American organ virtuoso, Carlo Curley.
A stained-glass window was commissioned in memory of Trevor Huddleston OL, and consecrated by Desmond Tutu on 22 May 2007.
The unfinished west end of the chapel, which had remained bricked up since 1978 (bricks replaced the previous corrugated iron), was completed in the summer of 2021 with the addition of an open three-arched porch designed by Michael Drury.
The chapel was closed to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic and, subsequently, during the completion of the west end porch and refurbishment work on the school kitchens opposite, reopening to the public on 25 April 2022.
Campus
During
Developments
In 1856 Lancing created its own code of football which (unlike other school codes) was regarded as a means of fostering teamwork.[10]
Notable alumni
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Arts
- Neo-Romanticschool.
- Tim Battersby,(1962–1967) composer, musician and lyricist
- David Bedford (1937–2011), composer and musician, worked with (among others) Mike Oldfield,orchestrating Tubular Bells.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore, Patron of the Arts, on the board of the National Gallery of Ireland.
- post-impressionistartist, educator and author.
- Sir Cecil Beatondescribed as the founder of modern society photography.
- historiographical works of Isaiah Berlinand music composer
- Sir Peter Pears (1910–1986), tenor, associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner
- Peter Ball (1932-2019) Suffragan Bishop of Lewes 1992-1993, convicted sex offender.
- Modernist painter and Official War artist, John Piper)
- Sir Tim Rice, lyricist,best known for work with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess
- Neil Richardson (1930–2010), composer, arranger and conductor of various BBC Radio Orchestras
Literature
- Nigel Andrews, film critic and author
- Stuart Cloete (1897–1976), novelist
- Andrew Crofts (author), ghostwriter
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry (1931–1996), historian and author
- Mark Mills (writer), novelist and screenplay writer
- Jan Morris, author and journalist
- Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.
- Tom Sharpe, novelist.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist
- Philip Womack, author and journalist, married to Princess Tatiana von Preussen.
Broadcasting, theatre and film
- George Baker (1931–2011), actor best known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
- Christopher Hampton, playwright
- Sir David Hare, playwright
- Alex Horne, comedian
- Royce Ryton (1924–2009), actor and playwright
- Jeremy Sinden (1950–1996), actor in Chariots of Fire and Brideshead Revisited.
- Dali Tambo, South African TV presenter
- Jamie Theakston, TV and radio presenter
- John Williams (1903–1983), actor, appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Columbo, and Mission: Impossible.
Politics and law
- Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana(2017–)
- Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change(2010–2014)
- Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary(1995–2000)
- Chairman of the Labour Party(1957–1958)
- President of the Liberal Party(1964–1965)
- Member of Parliament for Lanark(1951–1959)
- Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court(1982–1985)
- Hugh Molson, Baron Molson (1903–1991), Minister of Works (1957–1959)
- Member of Parliament for Corby(1983–1997)
- Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court(1895–1898)
- John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey (1866–1948), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1929–1935)
- Walsall North(1955–1974)
- Rob Wilson, Minister for Civil Society (Cabinet Office) (2014–2017)
Diplomatic service
- British Ambassador to Egypt(1973–1975)
- British Ambassador to Slovenia(1997–2000)
- British Ambassador to the United States(1997–2003)
- British Ambassador to Slovenia(2009–2013)
- colonial administrator
- British Ambassador to Sudan(1965–1966)
- British Ambassador to Russia (1962–1965), last High Commissioner of Aden(1967)
- Tanganyika(1949–1958)
- Colonial Secretary in Kenya(1934–1939)
Sciences
- Sir Roy Calne, pioneer of liver transplantation
- Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist[11]
- Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree(1900–1983), physician and geriatrician
- Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton(1877–1938), naturalist
- Richard Mason (explorer) 1935-1961, last British person to have been killed by Uncontacted peoples in the Amazon
- Gino Watkins (1907–1932), Arctic explorer
The Church
- suffragan Bishop of Jarrow (1980–1990) and Bishop of Truro(1990–1997)
- suffragan Bishop of Lewes (1977–1992) and Bishop of Gloucester(1992–1993), convicted sex offender
- Christopher Russell Campling, Dean of Ripon(1984–1995)
- Thomas William Cook (1866–1928), Bishop of Lewes(1926–1928)
- Bishop in Korea(1889–1904)
- Anthony Charles Foottit, Bishop of Lynn(1999–2003)
- Anglican Bishop of New Westminster(1940–1951)
- Bishop of Southwell(1904–1925)
- Trevor Huddleston (1913–1998), Archbishop of the Indian Ocean (1976–1984), Bishop of Masasi (1959–1968), Bishop of Stepney (1968–1978), Bishop of Mauritius (1978–1984)
- Bishop of Sherborne(1976–2001)
- Lewis Evan Meredith (1900–1968), Bishop of Dover(1957–1964)
- Cyril Jonathan Meyrick, Bishop of Lynn(2011–)
- David Reindorp, vicar of Chelsea Old Church, Chaplain to the Honourable Artillery Company and to the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers
- Congregational minister, composerand musicologist
- Bishop of St John's(1956–1980)
- Henry Edward Champneys Stapleton, Dean of Carlisle(1988–1998)
- Bishop in Korea(1911–1930)
- in Ericeira, Portugal.
Armed forces
- Third Army (World War I), Chief Administrator of Palestine(1919–1920)
- Major-General Eric Louis Bols (1904–1985), General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6th Airborne Division (1944–1946)
- Brig Sir Iltyd Nicholl Clayton (1886–1965), policy-maker active in formation of the Arab League
- explorer and member of the Special Operations Executive
- Lt-Gen Sir John Fullerton Evetts (1891–1988), Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1942–1944), Master-General of the Ordnance(1944–1946)
- George G. Imeretinsky (1897–1972), Grenadier Guards and Royal Flying CorpsOfficer
- Sqn Ldr Prince Michael Imeretinsky (1900–1975), Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Volunteer ReserveOfficer
- Col St George Corbet Gore (1849–1913), Surveyor General of India (1899–1904)
- Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley(1913–1963), soldier, playwright
- First World War flying ace
- George Henry Wellington Loftus, 7th Marquess of Ely(1903–1969), soldier
- Maj Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore (1913–1960), soldier
- Lt-Gen Vyvyan Pope (1891–1941), GOC XXX Corps(1941)
- RAF
- Director General Army Medical Services(1981–1984)
- (1941–1942)
- Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (2007–2009), Military Secretary(2009–2011)
- RAFpilot to shoot down the enemy in both world wars
- (1916–1920)
- Royal Yacht Britannia(1985–1990)
Business
- Sir Edgar Beck (1911–2000), Chairman (1961–79) then President (1981–2000) of Mowlem
- Sinclair Beecham, co-founder of Pret a Manger
- Sir John Gilbert Newton Brown (1916–2003), Publisher of the Oxford University Press (1956–1980)
- Managing Director of Greggs
- Paul Duffen, Chairman of Hull City A.F.C. (2007–2010)
- HSBC Holdings plc (2006–2010), Minister of State for Trade and Investment(2011–2013)
- Timothy Ko (1967-2021), Co-Founder of Ko Pharma Services.[12]
- Sir Derek Alun-Jones (1933–2004), Chairman of Ferranti (1982–1990)
- SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Limited
Sport
- the fourth unofficial football match against Scotland in November 1871.[13]
- 1880 FA Cupwinner
- Tony Bloom (1970 - ), Chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club
- Edward Cawston (1911–1998), Sussex cricketer
- 1880 FA Cupwinner
- Andy Frampton, footballer
- Arthur Greenfield (1887–1966), first-class cricketer
- Henry Hammond (1866–1910), England footballer
- Elphinstone Jackson (1868–1945), England footballer and co-founder of the Indian Football Association
- Dunlop Manners (1916–1994), first-class cricketer
- Sholto Marcon (1890–1959), England field hockey player, gold medallist at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[14]
- Richard Meade, England equestrian and gold medallist at the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics
- George Neale (1869–1915), cricketer
- Cyril Richards (1870–1933), cricketer
- Peter Robinson, cricketer
- Graham Sharman, cricketer and squash player
- Charles Wollaston (1849–1926), England footballer, five times FA Cup winner, eighth captain of the England national football team
Academia
- Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (1953–2006), historian and author, reader in the history and politics of South Asia and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
- mysticaland secret orders.
- knightedin 1968
- polemicist and political activist, member of the Irish Socialist Workers Network.
- Rana Mitter, historian and political scientist, focusing on realpolitik, China and the country's increasing role in a multipolar world.
- classical scholar of Virgil.
- Peter Self (1919–1999), scholar, Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre. Father of author Will Self.
- John Dover Wilson (1881–1969), literary critic; professor and scholar of Renaissance drama, focusing particularly on the work of William Shakespeare.
Notable former staff members
- Richard Budworth (1867–1937), former Master and an English rugby union forward
- Chief Scout of the United Kingdom
- Harry Guest, former Master and poet
- G.O. Smith, sportsman and footballer of the nineteenth century
- John Inge, former chemistry teacher and Assistant Chaplain and current Bishop of Worcester
- Edward Clarke Lowe (1823–1912), former Second Master, Provost of St Nicholas College Lancing and key participant in the foundation and development of the Woodard Schools, and first Headmaster of Hurstpierpoint College
- Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Provost of St Nicholas College Lancing, third Bishop of Southampton(1898–1903)
- Oxford University
- J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), former Housemaster, first Headmaster of Stowe School
- Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868—1942), former Director of Music. Musician and composer. Organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford (1919–1938, 1941–1942). Cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club (1892–1903). Father of concert viola performer, Jean Stewart, and of Lorn Alastair Stewart (Johnnie Stewart), who was creator of Top of the Pops.[15][16]
Headmasters
- Henry Jacobs (Aug–Dec 1848)
- Charles Edward Moberly (1849–1851)
- John Branthwaite (1851–1859)
- Henry Walford (1859–1861)
- Robert Edward Sanderson (1862–1889)
- Harry Ward McKenzie (1889–1894)
- Ambrose John Wilson (1895–1901)
- Bernard Henry Tower (1901–1909)
- Canon Henry Thomas Bowlby (1909–1925)
- Cuthbert Harold Blakiston (1925–1934)
- Frank Cecil Doherty (1935–1953)
- John Christopher Dancy (1953–1961)
- KG Bt(1961–1969)
- Ian David Stafford Beer (1969–1981)
- James Stephen Woodhouse (1981–1993)
- Christopher John Saunders (1993–1998)
- Peter M. Tinniswood (1998–2005)
- Richard R. Biggs (acting, 2005–2006)
- Jonathan William James Gillespie FRSA (Sept 2006–2014)
- Dominic Oliver (2014–present)[17]
Coat of Arms
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See also
References
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- ^ 'Dr. H. C. Stewart: Music at Oxford' (Obituary). The Times, Wednesday 17 June 1942 (Issue 49,264); p. 7 http://www.hcstewart.com/biography--obituaries.html Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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External links
- Lancing College school website
- The Woodard Corporation
- Old Lancing: OLs
- Lancing Prep Hove school website
- Lancing Prep Worthing school website
- Little Lancing - Lancing College Nursery website
- ISI Inspection Reports – Hove Prep School & Worthing Prep School & Senior School