Mount St Mary's College

at College Road, Sheffield , S21 3YL United Kingdom

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Mount St Mary's College is an independent coeducational day and boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, near Sheffield, England. It was founded in 1842 as "The College of the Immaculate Conception at Spinkhill" by Fr Randal Lythgoe, the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits), and is still under the trusteeship of the Society. Although most teaching staff are lay members the school still retains its Catholic ethos and values.Its affiliated preparatory school is Barlborough Hall School, and the schools are closely linked, with Barlborough only 2.2 miles away (by road).HistoryThe Jesuit Mission to England began in 1580 with the secret arrival of Robert Persons, Edmund Campion, and Ralph Emerson. After Campion’s arrest the following year, Persons slipped back to the European mainland where he spent most of the rest of his life preparing others for the Jesuit mission to England. One of the first things he did was to set up a school for the education of English boys who had no hope of receiving a Catholic education in their own country.Many of its students went on to become priests, returning to England to work, and sometimes to give their lives, for their faith. In England itself there were several clandestine schools, one of them at Stanley Grange in Derbyshire. When this school was discovered and dispersed by the authorities, it did not cease to exist, and there is strong evidence to suggest that, for a time, it found a home here at Spinkhill. Spinkhill had been a centre of Jesuit activity from the very earliest times, and it is almost certain that Persons and perhaps even Campion, spent some time here.

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Mount St Mary's College is Sheffield based place and this enity listed in High School category. Located at College Road S21 3YL. Contact phone number of Mount St Mary's College: 1246-433388