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The modern school in Woolhampton, Berkshire was formed by the site's pre-existing St Mary's College's merging with the school of the incoming Benedictine community that moved from Douai in June 1903 as a result of Waldeck-Rousseau 's Law of Associations (1901). Former pupils lobbied the Irish Parliamentary Party to raise the matter of the ...
A Brief History of Douai School. The Benedictine monastic Community of St Edmund’s was founded in Paris in 1615. A boarding school was created at La Celle on the outskirts of the city, and the first recorded pupil is from 1622, but education remained informal and irregular. Following the French Revolution, the Community disbanded.
Society. Twenty years ago, Douai, a monastic boarding school in West Berkshire, shocked parents with an announcement that it was ‘no longer viable’. Pupil numbers had fallen through the floor ...
The Douai Society is the Society of the former pupils of Douai school which was run by English Benedictine monks at Woolhampton in Berkshire from 1903 until its closure in 1999. This website is here to celebrate the school and its pupils and will be kept regularly up to date with upcoming events, news and images. It is also possible to make ...
Douai School is an independent day and boarding school located in the village of Upper Woolhampton, Reading RG7 5TH. It is a co-educational Catholic school, founded in 1863 by Dom Charles Cocherel, a Benedictine monk. It provides secondary education for boys and girls aged 11 to 18, as well as a Sixth Form.
Following the move to Douai in 1818, and the refoundation of the community by Richard Marsh, a more recognisable school emerged and by 1823, there were 28 boys on the roll. Around that time, the fees for students were being advertised at £32 a year or £30 for church students. [1] Links with the Roman Catholic dioceses in England were crucial ...
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Douai School was the public (independent) school that was run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine community at Woolhampton, England, until it closed in 1999. The monastic community was founded in Paris in 1615 and moved to Douai after the French Revolution. The monastery provided educational opportunities from the beginning, but had no formal school ...
