NEW - LANCING COLLEGE

Founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848 as the College of St Mary and St Nicolas, Lancing College is the first of over 30 schools founded by Woodard. The school moved to its current site in 1857, after the campus, designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter and William Slater, was completed. Lancing College is a public school, which due to the unusual naming conventions for schools in the UK means it is a private school, mostly attended by secondary school students from the upper class, originally only boys, but since 1970 also girls, who now make up 40 % of the student body. The original complex is designed in a neo-gothic style, with the massive chapel dominating the landscape for miles around, as the college sits on top of a hill.