Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall Preparatory School

Clitheroe, Lancashire

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1593

Founded

3 - 11

Age range

Co-ed

School type

£11,840 - £17,745

Boarding / term

In short

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall Preparatory School is a co-ed boarding and day school in Clitheroe, Lancashire, educating pupils aged 3 - 11 and founded in 1593. Boarding fees are £11,840 - £17,745 per term. Our advice on this school is independent and free.

Type: Co-ed boarding & day
Boarders from: 9 - 11
Ethos: Catholic
Guardian required: Yes

About

About Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall Preparatory

The story, ethos and character of Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall Preparatory.

Setting: Rural
Ethos: Catholic
Head: Mr Christopher Cann

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall Preparatory — campus and grounds

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall is the Preparatory School of Stonyhurst College, providing the first steps in a seamless education from age 3 to 18. We are a Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition offering an excellent education for boarders and day pupils alike.

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall is housed in its own buildings on the same site as the senior school with which it shares several facilities. From the age of 11, delivery of the academic programme is overseen by the Heads of Department from Stonyhurst College and is taught by highly qualified specialist teachers, ensuring continuity as they move across to the College at the age of 13.

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall has excellent facilities, which include a tennis dome, new science lab, extensive music department, an art studio, a swimming pool, sports hall and a professional theatre.

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall Preparatory — the school grounds

Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall is in a beautiful rural location about an hour from Manchester, 2 hours from London by train and 40 minutes from Preston. School history The first on-campus prep school feeding into Stonyhurst College was not based at St Mary's Hall, but at Hodder Place, which took in a small number of the youngest boys as its first students in January 1807 when it was still an (at that time illegal) novitiate for the training of novices for the Jesuit priesthood.

In 1821 the novices moved out and so the building became exclusively a prep school except for the period 1827 until 1853, during which time the novices returned. Whilst extensive improvements were made to the building, the Hodder boys were housed at The College, but by 1855 the work was finished.