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Saints' House opened in 2018 and is the first and only co-educational Day House at Lancing College, welcoming boys and girls from 13 to 18 years of age and offering a unique experience.
The College's newest House, Saints' boasts an array of work areas, a common room and a friendly dining area where students are welcomed and encouraged to socialise together. Further capacity was added in summer 2022 with a newly refurbished first floor space.
Uniquely, Saints' students are allocated to a 'family': a group of students of all ages, both boys and girls, who meet for breakfasts and social occasions, helping and encouraging a harmonious and happy environment in this friendly House.
Saints' House is about unity. Boys and girls have the opportunity to socialise in mixed common areas and form friendships and bonds. These friendships, whilst demystifying the opposite gender, will help prepare students for later life, ready for university and the wider world after the College.
To be a Saints' student is to be a true part of what Lancing College represents, and something any boy and girl would, and should, be proud of.
History of the House
Saints’ House has grown out of Olds, which in turn was part of School House at the beginning of the 20th century.
The common room for Saints’ is the original wooden-floored space used to house the Olds Evening School for Third and Fourth Formers. There were ‘alleys’ all the way around the walls, a bit like carrels in university libraries, where the pupils sat to work supervised by a House Captain or more latterly by the Tutor on duty. The area was split up into ‘pitts’ for three and four boys during the last years of Olds House; it then became a classroom and the Learning Support Centre in its last incarnation, before its conversion to become the Saints’ common room.
The pitts in the newer section, 'Chattanooga' (so-named by the last Housemaster of Olds, Jim Sheppe, due to its similarity to a railway sleeping-car), were built in the late 70s and early 80s as individual boarding pitts for the Fifth Formers in Olds. Each pitt had a bed raised up above the desk, accessible by a metal ladder; they were neither spacious nor comfortable.
Sanderson’s Fifth Form occupied Chattanooga for a year before Olds and Sanderson’s merged to create the new School House just off the Upper Quad.
