Lancing College

I went along with Hannah this morning to a craft fair at Lancing College, which is about 15 minutes away. I wanted to check it out with a view to possibly exhibiting there later in the year.Unfortunately, lovely though it is, I think my contemporary jewellery is too much of a contrast to some of the more traditional crafts that are sold there.

Not to worry, because it made for a lovely morning; and it was a balmy 25 degrees when we got back in the car! A little cooler now we're back home (22 degrees); just nice enough to sit in the garden for 5 minutes (if I am left alone for that long).

So, for anyone interested, here is a little history of Lancing College:

Lancing College is a co-educational English independent school in the British public school tradition, founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard.

Typical of major independent schools, Lancing places emphasis on what might be described as tradition; Anglican Christianity (chapel attendance is compulsory for all pupils), and sport (notably football, Eton fives, squash, tennis, hockey and cricket).

The school is based in 550 acres of countryside in West Sussex near the village of Lancing, west of the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. The college is situated on a hill which is part of the South Downs, and the campus dominates the local landscape. The college overlooks the River Adur and the Ladywell Stream, a holy well or sacred stream within the College grounds has pre-Christian significance.

The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Girls were first admitted in 1971. The school is dominated by a Gothic revival chapel, and follows a high church Anglican tradition. The College of St Mary and St Nicolas (as it was originally known) was intended for the sons of upper middle classes and professional men; in time this became Lancing College, moving to its present site in 1857.

The school's buildings of the 1850s were designed by the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter, with later ones by John William Simpson.