3916 x 2634 px | 33,2 x 22,3 cm | 13,1 x 8,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
16 maggio 2015
Ubicazione:
Ampleforth
Altre informazioni:
The college began as a small school for 70 boys founded by Benedictine monks, at Ampleforth Abbey, in 1802. 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. The first performances took place in 1910, and in 1922 a cinema projector was acquired, but could not be used until the following year when electric lighting and central heating was installed.[3] The first boarding houses were founded in 1926 to accommodate the growing pupil numbers. In 1929, the Abbey gained ownership of Gilling Castle and opened a preparatory school. Gilling Castle Prep merged with the college's junior school in 1992 before taking on its current name St Martin's Ampleforth after absorbing another nearby prep school. In 2002, girls were admitted for the first time when the sixth form became coeducational. The first girls' boarding house, St Margaret's, was opened in 2004.[4 Coeducation was extended to the Year 9 intake for the 2010–11 academic year and the college is now fully coeducational.
