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According to its 1382 charter and final statutes (1400), the school is called in Latin Collegium Sanctae Mariae prope Wintoniam ("St Mary's College, near Winchester"), or Collegium Beatae Mariae Wintoniensis prope Winton ("The College of the Blessed Mary of Winchester, near Winchester"). [2] The first 70 "poor scholars" entered the school in ...
The Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College is Howard Ionascu (as of December 2018), previously Director of the Junior Academy at the Royal Academy of Music. Previous directors include David Hurley (2017–2018), Malcolm Archer (2007–2017), Christopher Tolley (1992–2007), Julian Smith (1977–1992) and Raymond Humphrey (1970–1977).
James too was educated at Winchester College, winning the top scholarship to gain a fully-funded place there in 1954. [1] [3] [2] He won another scholarship to Winchester College's sister foundation, New College, Oxford. At the University of Oxford he gained a double first class degree in mods and greats, a humanities course centred on Latin ...
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 ...
It is located in the historic grounds of Winchester College, with evidence suggesting cricket in Winchester dates back to the 17th century. [1] The present ground, which is also known as New Field or Ridding Field , dates from 1869 when the then headmaster George Ridding bought land south of "meads", the original venue for college cricket, and ...
Winchester College was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382. He was a wealthy and powerful figure, as he was both Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England . The foundation was for a school to enable 70 boys, sons of poor clergymen, to have a free education; they might go on to have a university education the school's sister foundation ...
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