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Downside School
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Boys' *public school, run by the Benedictine monks of Downside Abbey. The community derives from one established at Douai in France in 1606 by a group of English and Welsh monks from Continental monasteries. They developed there a school to teach English Catholic boys. As with the *Ampleforth community, the French Revolution caused them to flee to England. They arrived in 1794 and eventually settled at Downside, near Bath, in 1814. The abbey church, built from the 1870s and completed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1925, is the largest of the many neo-Gothic Roman Catholic churches built in England since the mid-19C.
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