Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Saturday, 22 July 2017

Lancing College Chapel. "Beati Mundo Corde". "Blessed Are The Pure In Heart".



The Nave,
Lancing College Chapel,
Sussex, England.
Photo: 15 August 2014.
Source: Own work.
Author: Diliff.
Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
License: CC-BY-SA 3.0".
(Wikimedia Commons)


Lancing College Motto:
"Beati Mundo Corde"
(Blessed are the pure in heart).
This File: 22 October 2013.
(Wikipedia)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Lancing College (formerly College of Saint Mary and Saint Nicolas), Lancing, Sussex, England, is a Co-Educational English Independent School in the British Public School Tradition, Founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard.

Woodard's aim was to provide education "based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in The Christian Faith." Lancing was the first of a family of more than thirty Schools founded by Woodard (others include Hurstpierpoint College, Ardingly College, Bloxham School and Worksop College).

The School is a Member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Girls were first admitted in 1970. The School is dominated by a Gothic Revival Chapel, and follows a High Church Anglican Tradition.


Lancing College Chapel,
Lancing, Sussex, England.
Photo: 15 August 2014.
Source: Own work.
Author: Diliff.
Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
License: CC-BY-SA 3.0".
(Wikimedia Commons)

The College of Saint Mary and Saint Nicolas (as it was originally known), in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, was intended for the sons of Upper-Middle-Classes and Professional Men; in time, this became Lancing College, moving to its present site in 1857.

The School's buildings of the 1850s were designed by the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter, with later buildings by John William Simpson.

Lancing College educates circa 550 Pupils between the ages of thirteen and eighteen; the

Co-Educational ratio is circa sixty:forty Boys to Girls. Roughly sixty percent of Pupils are Boarders, at a cost of £32,910 per year; circa forty percent are Day Pupils, at a cost of £23,130 per year. Occasional overnight stays are available to Day Pupils at an additional cost.

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