St Boniface College, Warminster

It gradually grew in size and by 1897 the foundation stone was laid for a permanent college, this being completed in 1901.

Two former students of the college were martyred in China during the Boxer Rising: Harry Vine Norman and Charles Robinson, who were murdered in 1900.

Another, Frederick Day of Stratton St Margaret near Swindon was murdered in North China on 4 March 1912.

[6] To the right is the 1897–1901 extension, neo-Jacobean in dressed stone, decorated with ornate features such as gabled dormers bearing finials.

[7] Arthur Anstey, later Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago and Archbishop of the West Indies, was principal of the college from 1904.

The former college in 2009
West front of the 1796 house