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      • The college began as a small school for 70 boys founded by Benedictine monks, at Ampleforth Abbey, in 1803. The school formally constituted as a Roman Catholic boarding school in 1900. Various buildings were slowly added, including the school theatre which was built in 1909.
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  3. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk › heritage-and-retroAmpleforth College: The history of the public school known as ...

    Nov 28, 2020 · Published 28th Nov 2020, 06:00 GMT. Updated 1st Dec 2020, 16:32 GMT. Comment. Ampleforth College. Opened by the Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey in 1802, it has gone on to become one of...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ampleforth_CollegeAmpleforth College - Wikipedia

    The college began as a small school for 70 boys founded by Benedictine monks, at Ampleforth Abbey, in 1803. The school formally constituted as a Roman Catholic boarding school in 1900. Various buildings were slowly added, including the school theatre which was built in 1909.

    • 1802; 221 years ago
    • Dieu le ward, (Anglo-Norman for God the protector)
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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ampleforth_AbbeyAmpleforth Abbey - Wikipedia

    The monastery founded a school at Ampleforth in 1802. It is now the coeducational independent boarding school Ampleforth College , with about 600 pupils. In 2017 the college separated from the Abbey by splitting the site and each having its own independent governance. [9]

    • England
    • 1802
    • 9 September 1985
    • Ampleforth, North Yorkshire

  6. www.ampleforthabbey.org.uk › monastery › our-historyOur History | Ampleforth Abbey

    In the following year (1803) the new monastery school was opened. Modern Ampleforth Abbey. In 1900 the major monastic houses became independent Abbeys with their own elected Abbot. At this time Ampleforth was a community of just under 100 monks and the first Abbot of Ampleforth was Fr Oswald Smith, who continued in office until his death in 1924.

  7. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThe Early Ampleforth College | British Catholic History ...

    Google Scholar The most recent major study of Ampleforth is Dom Anselm Cramer's study of the Abbey and College, Cramer. This work is a history of all of the monastic community's activities and is not exclusively concerned with the school. The school from 1803 to 1830 is covered pp. 59–65.

    • Peter Galliver
    • 2007

  8. www.yorkpress.co.uk › features › featuresBehind the scenes at Ampleforth Monastery | York Press

    Jul 4, 2011 · They came to Ampleforth in 1792, where Lady Anne Fairfax, of Gilling Castle, built them a lodge and the monastery school was opened in 1803. It remains one of Britain’s great public schools.

  9. www.msn.com › en-gb › travelVillage of the Week: Ampleforth's history is tied up ... - MSN

    Around the same time that Ampleforth Abbey came into being, so did Ampleforth College. It was opened in 1802 as a small boys' school with around 70 pupils and formally constituted as a...