3-034-819 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, 1871. 'The present buildings [of the Roman Catholic college] include the remains of a fine old Elizabethan mansion belonging to the Shireburnes...In the latter part of the eighteenth century Mr. Thomas Weld, father of Cardinal Weld, bestowed Stonyhurst on the English Jesuits formerly conducting the seminary at St. Omer, who had been expelled from St. Omer, and subsequently from Liège, upon the suppression of their Order by Pope Clement XIV. The buildings have been much enlarged from time to time for the accommodation of increasing numbers of students. It is the older portion of which the front is shown in our View, with the long path leading to Hurst-green, and a sheet of water on each side of the path. This part of the building was erected by Sir Thomas Shireburne...The detached edifice to the right hand is the chapel. The library is well arranged, containing 30,000 volumes and many curious manuscripts, besides such historical relics as Sir Thomas More's hat and seal, and the Bible held by Mary Queen of Scots when she ascended the scaffold...The gardens are quaintly laid out, with shady yew-trees along the walks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.