Mount St Mary's College

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Mount St Mary's College
Barlborough Hall School
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Mount St Mary's College is an independent,

Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits), and has buildings designed by notable architects such as Joseph Hansom, Henry Clutter and Adrian Gilbert Scott. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Catholic
Independent Schools Conference.

Its affiliated preparatory school is Barlborough Hall School, which is 2.2 miles away by road.[2]

History

Foundation

Since 1580, during the English Reformation, there were Jesuits living and working in Spinkhill, serving the local Catholic population. In 1580, Robert Persons, Edmund Campion, and Ralph Emerson came to England in secret. These first Jesuits were sheltered at Spinkhill Hall, the house that became Mount St Mary's College. In 1620, a clandestine school was founded in Stanley Grange near Derby. When this school was discovered and dispersed by the authorities, it did not cease to exist. It was moved to Spinkhill.[3] The school was in buildings owned by members of the Pole family who were related to those living at nearby Radbourne Hall.[4][5] During the 1700s, it was recorded that there was a Catholic chapel in Spinkhill, a house for Jesuit priests and that they travelled to serve the Catholics in Holbeck, Nottinghamshire.[6]

Construction

In 1842, after

Grade II listed building.[7]

Developments

In 1939, Barlborough Hall, an Elizabethan manor some two miles from Spinkhill, was acquired to serve as a preparatory school to Mount St Mary's College.[8] On 16 July 1939, the then headmaster, Fr Ralph Baines successfully petitioned the College of Arms to give the college its own coat of arms. This is still used by the college today.[9] During Baines' Headmastership from 1939 to 1945, he was also accepted into the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, thus establishing the college as a Public School. In 1979, girls were admitted as day students. From 1984, girls began boarding in the school.

In September 2006, Mount St Mary's became its own charitable trust. The

Society of Jesus transferred the two schools to the Mount St Mary's Trust.[10] While legally separate from the Jesuits, the college still works with them to maintain the Jesuit mission and identity of the college.[11]

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Mount St Mary's College
Notes
Granted 23 June 1941.[12]
Crest
On a wreath Or and Azure, a lily flowered stalked and leaved Proper between two wings displayed Or.
Escutcheon
Or, a chevron between three crescents Azure; on a canton of the last the Roman letters IHS between in chief a Passion Cross and in base three passion nails pilewise, all of the first.
Motto
'Sine Macula'

School years

Chapel and buildings

Each of the school years are named after different stages of elementary skills, taken from the Jesuit text, Ratio Studiorum:[13]

  • Upper Elements (Year 7)
  • Figures (Year 8)
  • Rudiments (Year 9)
  • Grammar (Year 10)
  • Syntax (Year 11)
  • Poetry (Lower Sixth—Year 12)
  • Rhetoric (Upper Sixth—Year 13)

The school is split into three houses, Loyola named after Ignatius of Loyola, Xavier named after Francis Xavier, and Campion named after Edmund Campion. For each year, there are three forms and each form applies to one of the schools houses.

Facilities and sport

Athletics track and rugby field
Sports fields and countryside

The college takes part in sports, notably rugby, and some of its older students have joined the England Rugby teams along with Scotland, Ireland, Italy, and many other countries. The school also receives rugby honours, winning the

Catholic Public Schools, Stonyhurst College and Ampleforth College
.

Mount St Mary's

Notre Dame St Sigisbert in Nancy, France, and with Col·legi Casp and Joan 23 schools in Barcelona. In 2009, the college began an exchange with St. Michel in Saint-Étienne, France and considers Lycée Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert a sister school. The college also holds fund-raising events for the Chikuni Mission in Zambia.[citation needed
]

The college has a Grade 1 Athletics Stadium, which was selected as a Pre-Games Training Camp for the

London 2012 Summer Olympics.[16] There are also nine rugby pitches, three cricket squares, an astro-turf, two sports halls, and a leisure centre with indoor swimming pool, cardio room, and two weights rooms. The latter is open to the public for use at specific times and is run by Nuffield Health. There is a Sixth Form Centre, and a programme of speakers coming from outside the college. The boarding community comprises UK and international pupils who choose to board either full-time, on a weekly or flexi basis.[13]

Notable alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Mount St Mary's College

Old boys (or alumni) are known as "Mountaineers".

Notable staff

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mount St Mary's College - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  2. ^ Barlborough Hall site
  3. ^ a b c Spinkhill from Derbyshire Heritage, retrieved 7 June 2022
  4. ^ John Gough Nichols, The Topographer and Genealogist, Volume 1, J. B. Nichols, 1846, p. 176-178.
  5. ^ "Recusant History" from Catholic Record Society (Great Britain), p. 489.
  6. ^ Spinkill – Immaculate Conception from English Heritage, retrieved 24 May 2016
  7. ^ Mount St Mary's College Memorial Chapel, from British Listed Buildings, retrieved 7 June 2022
  8. ^ Historic England, Barlborough Hall, retrieved 7 June 2022
  9. ^ Mount St Mary's from Heraldry of the World, retrieved 7 June 2022
  10. ^ Mount St Mary's from Charity Commission for England and Wales, retrieved 7 June 2022
  11. ^ "Jesuit Schools". Jesuit Institute. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Mount St Mary's College". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  13. ^ a b c d "Mount St Mary's College". Independent Schools Inspectorate. 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  14. Worksop Guardian
    , 19 March 2022, retrieved 7 June 2022
  15. ^ Schools Rugby: Midweek Preview – 7s galore this midweek with tournaments across the country, NextGenXV.com, retrieved 7 June 2022
  16. ^ "Mount St Mary's, Sheffield". Thorn. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  17. ^ Douglas Lammings, An English Football Internationalist Who's Who (1990) from England Footballer Online, retrieved 7 June 2022
  18. ^ Andrew Pulver, Carlos Reygadas: in defence of Post Tenebras Lux, The Guardian, 14 March 2013, retrieved 7 June 2022
  19. ^ Keegan, Francis (Spring 1976). "Gerard Manley Hopkins at Mount St. Mary's College, Spinkhill, 1877-1878". The Hopkins Quarterly. 6 (1): 11–34 – via JSTOR.

Further reading

  • Peter McArdle, The Story of Barlborough Hall: With a Short Account of Its Parent College Mount St Mary's College, Spinkhill, 1979.

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