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, the College moved to its present site on Alexandra Park Road in 1877 and in 1891 became the Diocesan Junior Seminary. The College is no longer operated by the
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and is today an independent charitable trust run by a board of trustees.


History

The original school was at 16 Devonshire Street, Grosvenor Square, off Oxford Road (then called Oxford Street) and was set up in 1876 by the then
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, later
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. Originally, the school was conceived as a "commercial school" to prepare the sons of Manchester Catholics for a life in business and the professions. This was the first school under the patronage of
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. In August 1877, the Manchester Aquarium on Alexandra Road South and the plot of land around it was purchased by the then Bishop Vaughan for College purposes. On 10 September 1877, St Bede's College re-opened in the Manchester Aquarium with 45 pupils who were taught by 11 staff, 8 of them priests. The faculty lived in 'Rose Lawn', until the accommodation levels were completed in the Vaughan Building, for both clergy and a large number of boarders. The somewhat spartan conditions were alleviated by a team of long-serving nuns, who took care of the domestic and catering requirements, as well as a number of lay staff. In the late 1870s and early 1880s, the Vaughan building was constructed (see pictures). The original plan was for a symmetrical building, with five-storey towers at each end. Only one half of this design was ever carried out, but the main ground floor corridor of the Vaughan building is an impressive centrepiece for the school all the same. An imposing entrance on Alexandra Road (decorated with ceramic mouldings by Tinworth) leads into a corridor adorned with mosaics and marble. The original aquarium building (now the school's Academic Hall) leads off the main corridor directly opposite the main entrance. Appropriately the decorative scheme includes plaster mouldings of fish and other marine animals. In 1891, Salford Catholic Grammar School (the Diocesan Junior seminary) amalgamated with the College which duly became the place where over 500 priests, some of whom later became bishops or
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s, were educated. The College Chapel was built in 1898 and the Henshaw Building, named after the fifth Bishop of Salford, was opened around 1932. The Beck Building, named after the seventh Bishop of Salford
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, was opened in 1958 while the St Regis Building, built in the first decade of the 20th century as a retreat house for the Cenacle Convent, was bought by the College in 1970. It remained empty until 1984 when the Governors took the decision to make St Bede's co-educational. Over the next three years, the St Regis building was completely renovated and allowed the College roll to increase from 630 at the beginning of the 1980s to just under 1000 today. Between 1886 and 1896, the College had an affiliate school _'realgymnasium'.html"_;"title="realgymnasium.html"_;"title="_'realgymnasium">_'realgymnasium'">realgymnasium.html"_;"title="_'realgymnasium">_'realgymnasium'at_Bonn,_Germany,_then_a_small_town_on_the_Rhine._It_was_never_successful._British_victims_of_the_war_are_commemorated_in_the_College_Chapel. From_the_time_of_the_school's_move_to_Alexandra_Road,_the_College_supported_the_nearby_St_Bede's_
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 population in Whalley Range. In 1893 the
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, John Bilsborrow, appointed Father James Rowan, a former teacher at the college, as priest in charge of the district. The new English Martyrs Parish Church was consecrated on the Feast of the List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation, English Martyrs, 4 May 1922.


Today

The school admits children from Roman Catholic and non-Catholic families. Pupils perform well at
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and
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. The College continues to grow and each year the college admits no more than 100 pupils into year 7 (Upper 3rd). The St Bede's College Educational Trust attempts to maintain a broad social mix, despite the end of the
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, by providing means-tested bursaries. Members of the Manchester City Academy are guaranteed a place at the school, funded by the club.


School publications

*''Baeda'' is the school's annual publication and reviews the academic, sporting and other events within the school. It was first published at Michaelmas 1896. It chronicles the achievements of pupils and publishes works of arts, poetry and prose, as well as tales from ex-pupils. Although the editor is a member of staff, it is largely contributed to by pupils. Its name is the school's patron saint's name in Latin.


Notable alumni

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Reports of abuse

In recent years the College has found itself involved in two separate historic abuse investigations; in 2008, a former teacher Father William Green was charged with various counts of indecent assault and indecency with pupils at the school in the 1970s and 1980s. He admitted the offences and was jailed, but has since been released and has now died. The diocese said that it had co-operated with the police and that safeguards against this happening again had long been in place. Then in 2011 the Manchester Evening News published an article concerning Monsignor Thomas Duggan, who had been Rector at the college during the 1950s and 1960s. It alleged mental, physical and sexual abuse of pupils at the college at that time. An attempt was later made by 57 old boys to bring a private prosecution against the school, but the plaintiffs eventually withdrew the case.


See also

* Listed buildings in Manchester-M16 *
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*For more information about St. Bede's buildings and other developments see '' Whalley Range''.


References


External links


St Bede's College websiteProfile
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Old Bedians Rugby Union Football Club
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