ARL Collectables
BEAUMONT COLLEGE, RUNNYMEDE
St Stanislaus College, Beaumont Medal, silver, 55mm. dia., obv. facade of Beaumont Lodge, Berkshire, with Latin inscription, rev. crowned standing figure of Christ, with seraphim either side, and with text " SEDES SAPIENTIAE ORA PRO NOBLIS".AEF.
In 1805 the Beaumont property was bought for about £14,000 by Viscount Ashbrook, a friend of George IV. After his death in 1847, his widow continued to reside there until 1854, when she sold it to the Society of Jesus as a training college. For seven years it housed Jesuit novices of the (then) English province and on 10 October 1861 became a Catholic boarding school for boys, with the title of St. Stanislaus College, Beaumont. In 1967 the school closed. The property became a conference centre, and from 2008 a hotel.
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