Mount St Mary's College is a private (fee paying) English coeducational boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, near Sheffield, England. It is known colloquially as "The Mount". It was founded in its current form in 1842 by Fr Randal Lythgoe, the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order commonly known as the Jesuits.
The pupils range in age from 11 to 18, educated from 3rd year to Upper 6. Each of these years are named after different stages of elementary skills: starting at Upper Elements (1st Year) to Figures, Rudiments, Grammar, Syntax, Poetry and Rhethoric (Upper 6). The school is the senior school to Barlborough Hall School, and the schools are closely linked, with Barlborough only about 4 miles away(by road).
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History
The original College buildings were designed in 1840 by Joseph Hansom who also designed the Hansom cab. The girls' quarters, known as the Hopkins wing, were built ten years later and are named after the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who once taught at the school. The school was a boys only school until the 1970s, when girls were admitted as day students. Girl boarders started in 1984, and remain until today. Old scholars of Mount St Mary's are known as 'Old Mountaineers'.
The block today known as New College was built between 1876 and 1912.
The school chapel, designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott, was completed in 1924 as a memorial to those former pupils killed in World War I. In the atrium to the Chapel can be seen more than 100 names of former pupils of the school killed in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.
Sports and Recreation
The school has an excellent rugby team and some of its older students have joining the England Rugby teams and played against Scotland, Italy and many other countries. The school has exchanges with Notre Dame St Sigisbert (fr:Lycée Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert) in Nancy, France as well as Joan 23 which is in Barcelona, Spain.
The school also does fund-raising events for the Chikuni Mission in Zambia: the connection is known as "Mwabuka", a Tonga word meaning "Good morning" or "You have arisen".
The move-away from the Society of Jesus
In September 2006, the constitution of the College and its preparatory school, Barlborough Hall, changed to that of a charitable company called "Mount St Mary's" whose board of Trustees forms the present governing body. The Society of Jesus formally transferred property of the schools, their capita, business and other assets to Mount St Mary's, so that, from a legal point of view, the schools are independent of the Society of Jesus.citation needed
Notable Mountaineers
- Old Boys (or alumni) are known as "Mountaineers"
- Sir Denis Henry, 1st Baronet - Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- Francis Petre - New Zealand architect
- Brendan Lim - Senior Inspector of Police in Hong Kong
- Andrew Shearstone - Winner of Junior Accounting award, in North England in 2007. First pupil from Yorkshire to do so since its establishment.
- John Kelly - awarded the MBE "for services to Local Government" in the 2008 New Year's Honours List
- Hugh Lofting - Author and creator of Doctor Dolittle (attended the College 1894-1904)
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External links
- Mount St Mary's College
- Mountsmchikuni-Jesuit Missions - Charity supported by the school
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