The Right Sort of School

The sort of place I wouldn't mind sending my kids (if I could afford it, which I can't):

Yesterday I was at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire for lunch with the new headmaster.... Stonyhurst is breathtaking when you first see it - after a taxi ride through glorious countryside there is the great sweep of the view, with its wide green lawns and Rugby pitches and the ornamental stretches of shining water with the great house standing majestically beyond. We lunched in the Stuart Room, with pics of Henry Duke of York (Bonnie Prince Charlie's brother) and Clementina Sobieska looking down on us. The College has a strong Jacobite tradition. Girl pupils at Stonyhurst wear skirts of Bonnie Prince Charlie's tartan - a square of the original is one of the treasures in the vast collection of items in the College's vast archives and museum. Curator Jan Graffius, who is a friend of long standing, showed me some of them - fabulous vestments embroidered in the 16th century by loyal Catholic women who held fast to their Faith in the face of great trials,, small pewter chalices used by hunted priests, hand-written letters from St Robert Southwell, a prayer-book made for Queen Mary Tudor and subsequently used by Mary, Queen of Scots....

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