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Voluntary aided school in Chelsea, London, England
St Thomas More Language College is a Roman Catholic secondary school in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .[ 1] Thomas More who was beheaded by King Henry VIII when Lord Chancellor. Saint Thomas More lived in the Chelsea borough which is where the school is now located.
Education for boys and girls has been provided at the school since 1845. The first foundation in 1885 was for 200 pupils and the school has been in existence since that time. The Sisters of Mercy, who ran a boarding school, decided to move from the site in 1954 so that the school could be modernised to accommodate 249 pupils.
The school is situated in the middle of Chelsea, a short walk from Sloane Square, and is surrounded by a wide variety of galleries and museums. Many of the buildings have now been supplemented by modern buildings which house all the facilities for a mixed, comprehensive school. The school gained Language College specialist status in September 2004.[citation needed
St Thomas More RC School achieved Specialist status as a Language College in 2004. There are 37 different language backgrounds in college. These languages range across Europe, South America and Africa. The largest contingents are Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino and Eritrean.[citation needed
In 1977 the school choir provided the backing vocals for the hit song If I Had Words Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley , which reached Number 1 in the Netherlands, Number 3 in the UK, Number 9 in Ireland and Number 24 in Australia.
Primary schools Secondary schools Independent schools FE & sixth form colleges Defunct institutions
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster
Churches Our Lady of Lourdes, Acton St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater St Casimir, Bethnal Green Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bow Our Lady and St Catherine of Siena, Bow St John the Evangelist, Brentford Brompton Oratory Holy Trinity, Brook Green St Richard of Chichester, Buntingford St Mary, Cadogan Street Our Lady of Hal, Camden Town Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic, Camden Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea Our Lady of Grace and St Edward, Chiswick St Peter, Clerkenwell Parafia Ealing St Etheldreda, Ely Place Immaculate Conception, Farm Street Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Fulham St Thomas of Canterbury, Fulham St Andrew Bobola, Hammersmith St Augustine, Hammersmith St Theodore, Hampton St Francis de Sales, Hampton Hill and Upper Teddington Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury, Harrow Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Heston St Joseph, Highgate St Monica, Hoxton St John the Evangelist, Islington Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Simon Stock, Kensington Our Lady of Victories, Kensington Sacred Heart, Kilburn St Hugh of Lincoln, Letchworth St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane Guardian Angels, Mile End St Mary Moorfields Mary Immaculate and St Peter, New Barnet Notre Dame de France St Francis of Assisi, Notting Hill St Monica, Palmer's Green St Alban and St Stephen, St Albans St Patrick, Soho Square St Anselm, Southall St James, Spanish Place St Ignatius, Stamford Hill St Mary and St Michael, Stepney Sacred Heart, Teddington English Martyrs, Tower Hill St James, Twickenham St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham Holy Rood, Watford St Joseph, Wembley St Catherine, West Drayton St Mary Magdalen, Whetstone St Edmund of Canterbury, Whitton
Patronal Feasts of the Diocese
Schools Our Lady of Lourdes School, Arnos Grove Sacred Heart Primary School, Teddington All Saints Catholic College, North Kensington St Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School Bishop Challoner Catholic School Bishop Douglass Catholic School Cardinal Pole Catholic School Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Greenford The Douay Martyrs School St Augustine's Priory, Ealing St Benedict's School, Ealing Finchley Catholic High School Gumley House Convent School Gunnersbury Boys' School John F Kennedy Catholic School The John Henry Newman School La Sainte Union Catholic School London Oratory School Loreto College, St Albans Maria Fidelis Roman Catholic Convent School Mount House School Newman Catholic College Nicholas Breakspear School Our Lady's Catholic High School, Stamford Hill Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith Sacred Heart Language College St Anthony's School, Hampstead St Aloysius' College, Highgate St Angela's Ursuline School St Anne's Catholic High School St Claudine's Catholic School for Girls St Dominic's Sixth Form College St George's Catholic School St Gregory's Catholic Science College St Ignatius College, Enfield St James' Catholic High School, Colindale St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth St Mary's Catholic School, Bishop's Stortford St Mark's Catholic School, Hounslow St Michael's Catholic Grammar School St Michael's Catholic High School St Columba's College, St Albans St Paul's College, Sunbury-on-Thames St Richard Reynolds Catholic College Salvatorian College St Thomas More Language College St Catherine's School, Twickenham St Edmund's College, Ware Westminster Cathedral Choir School St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green
