The Terrace, St Edmund's College, Old Hall Green Catholic Church, Old Hall Green |
About five miles from Ware, on the Cambridge road, in this parish, is St. Edmund's College, established for the education of the sons of the English nobility, clergy, and gentry, of the Roman Catholic religion. The building was erected in 1795, under the direction of Mr. James Taylor, architect, and consists of a range of buildings four stories high, and, with its two wings, three hundred feet long; more than eighty students can be conveniently accommodated. The course of education is commercial, classical, and theological: the institution is under the management of a president and vice-president, and there are eight professors and masters. The usual period for continuing at college is twelve years; the first seven are devoted to history, the mathematics, the ancient and modern languages, &c., and the remaining five are appropriated to logic, metaphysics, theology, and divinity. The occasion of founding this institution was the expulsion of the English Roman Catholics from their college in Douay, at the commencement of the French Revolution.
Standon Entry in Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Publisher P S Buchanan |
Talbot and Challoner House, St Edmund's College |
St Edmund's College, Old Hall,
Ware |
The college still operates as a Catholic school, and there is a St Edmunds College web page, which includes some historical information about the school.
St Hugh's Preparatory School, St Edmunds College
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September 2005 | Page update | |
December 2009 | Additional postcards | |
June 2010 | Minor reformatting associated with the changes to the Standon pages. | |
December 2011 | Fire at the College |