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Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or the College of St. Peter at Radley, [2] [3] is a public school (independent boarding school for boys) near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847. [4] [5] The school covers 800 acres (320 hectares) including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and farmland. Before the ...
St Swithun's School, Winchester; W. West Downs School; The Westgate School, Winchester This page was last edited on 3 June 2024, at 05:53 (UTC). Text is ...
A small Anglican church, St Mark's, doubles up as a village hall and there is also a Catholic church, St Stephen's. Oliver's Battery Primary School was opened in 1973. St Peter's Catholic Primary School was built in the 1980s (having originated in Winchester in the 1850s), next to St Stephen's.
In 1575, Cardinal Allen wrote that there were sufficient Catholics in Winchester to constitute the only'district' in south England. Mass was said in My Lady West's House in Fishmonger Street between 1579 and 1583. The building is now the Royal Hotel. Later the house was owned by Roger Corham, he built a residence for a priest called St Peter's ...
St. Peter's School gained Arts College status in September 2000, and in September 2004 gained dual specialist status in Arts and Sport. As an Arts College St Peter's was shortlisted, but not selected, for the 2008 Sky1 TV programme Hairspray: The School Musical, with students being interviewed and auditioned.
This octagonal church, designed by Alan Stewart, opened in 1969 as a chapel of ease to St Peter's Church, Winchester. It was registered for worship and for marriages on 30 May of that year. It cost £32,000 and has variegated brickwork and a metal roof with a prominent small spire. Each wall has a band of clerestorey windows. [255] [256] [257 ...
St Peter's traces its origins back to a British School, established in 1871 on Grammar School Walk in the town centre. [2] This school relocated to a new building at Brookside, built in 1905, and was known as Brookside School. [3] In 1957 the school moved to its current site on St Peter's Road, opening as a secondary modern school. It later ...
The "School" building, 17th century. As the college was a religious as well as educational establishment, it was threatened with closure during Henry VIII's reign. In 1535, a visitation was made to assess the college's assets, after which some of Winchester's valuable land assets near London were seized and exchanged for assets of similar size elsewhere in the country, depriving the college of ...