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Princethorpe College is a Catholic private day school located in Princethorpe, near Rugby, Warwickshire, England.Princethorpe College opened in September 1966 after the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSCs), purchased the site to use as the senior school for their already established boys’ school, St Bede’s College in Leamington Spa.
Princethorpe College: Origins. Princethorpe College, which is located in a former Benedictine priory, owes its existence to the French Revolution. However, its story really begins in the 17th century. On 13th May 1630 Marie Granger left the Benedictine house at Montmartre in Paris, where she was a member of the community, to travel to Montargis ...
Princethorpe College opened in September 1966 after the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSCs), purchased the site to use as the senior school for their already established boys’ school, St Bede’s College in Leamington Spa. It was officially opened on Wednesday 26 April 1967. by the Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Rev. George Patrick ...
Princethorpe College. Princethorpe College is a Catholic, co-educational, HMC independent day school and welcomes members of all faiths and backgrounds. The school was founded as a boys’ school in 1957 in Leamington Spa by the congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC), moving to its present site, a former Benedictine ...
Princethorpe. . The present-day Princethorpe College first opened its doors in September 1966. The College, run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, had originated in Leamington in the late 1950s as St Bede's College. Now (2012) it has a Senior School (11 to 16) with 630 pupils and a Sixth Form College (16 – 18) with 180 pupils.
The values expressed in our “mission statement” below are at the very heart of Princethorpe and our Ethos: Ours is a spirit of family. and a spirit of friendship. formed by kindness and understanding. by compromise and mutual forgiveness. by gentleness, humility and simplicity. by hospitality and a sense of humour.
One of the points I have found particularly interesting in Princethorpe’s past is its transition from St Mary’s Priory to Princethorpe College in 1965-6. Having been home to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns for 130 years, its transformation to a boys’ boarding and day school run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) marked the beginning of a new era in its history.
