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Ampleforth College
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Roman Catholic *public school for boys. It is run by the *Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey, distant successors of those who in the Middle Ages taught in the school attached to *Westminster Abbey. At the Reformation the abbey school was transformed into a Protestant establishment (the present *Westminster School), and the Benedictines escaped to the Continent. One of them started a new community, eventually with a school attached. It was this group which returned to England in the 1790s, under anti-clerical pressure from the *French Revolution, and settled in 1802 in the Yorkshire village of Ampleforth (a parallel story is that of *Downside). The main buildings of today's school, together with the abbey church, were built from 1922 by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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