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St Clement Danes is a partially selective school, providing education to students aged 11 through to 18 ().Most students are admitted based on proximity to the school, with priority given to students with siblings already at the school, or whose parents are staff at the school, but up to 10% of the year 7 cohort are admitted based on performance in the eleven-plus exam, and a further 10% may ...
St Clement Danes is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London.It is now situated near the 19th-century Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand.Although the first church on the site was reputedly founded in the 9th century by the Danes, the current building replaced the medieval church building and was completed in 1682 by celebrated architect Sir Christopher Wren.
A separate ecclesiastical parish of Chorleywood was created in 1845, following the construction of Christ Church, but Chorleywood remained part of the civil parish of Rickmansworth until 1898. [15] When the Local Government Act 1894 created parish and district councils in December 1894, a parish council was established for Rickmansworth, which ...
St Clement Danes was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England; an ecclesiastical version remains (see its Anglican church, St Clement Danes). The parish was split between the Liberty of Westminster and the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster (also known as of the Savoy) .
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She took the pseudonym "Clemence Dane" from the church, St Clement Danes on the Strand, London. Her first novel, Regiment of Women , written in 1914, was a study of life in a girls' school. [ 1 ] In 1919 she wrote Legend , the story of a group of acquaintances who debate the meaning of a dead friend's life and work.
Saint Clement is also commemorated every April at St Clement Danes church in London, a modern clementine custom/revival. Reverend William Pennington-Bickford initiated the service in 1919 to celebrate the restoration of the famous church bells and carillon, which he had had altered to ring out the popular nursery rhyme (although this might ...
The first Catholic church in Houston, St. Vincent's Church, opened in 1839. [6] John Odin, a bishop arrived in 1841 to help establish it, and in the fall of 1842 the building, in the Second Ward, was fully built. This church converted into a parish catering to German Americans in 1871 when the larger Annunciation Church opened. [7]