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Douai School was a public (fee-charging boarding) school run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine community at Woolhampton, England, until it closed in 1999.
A Brief History of Douai School. The Benedictine monastic Community of St Edmund’s was founded in Paris in 1615. A boarding school was created at La Celle on the outskirts of the city, and the first recorded pupil is from 1622, but education remained informal and irregular.
Twenty years ago, Douai, a monastic boarding school in West Berkshire, shocked parents with an announcement that it was ‘no longer viable’. Pupil numbers had fallen through the floor — below...
David Smith, jailed May 2007, was an assistant housemaster at Douai School, Upper Woolhampton, West Berkshire, from 1975. He sexually abused three boys in one year at the school and continued to sexually abuse as an Anglican priest from 1981, sexually abusing a series of boys over a 30-year period.
The Douai Society is the Society of the former pupils of Douai school which was run by English Benedictine monks at Woolhampton in Berkshire from 1903 until its closure in 1999.
We are a charitable foundation set up by pupils of the former Douai School. Our mission is to promote Benedictine values in schools, principally through funding cultural, pastoral, and outreach programmes.
Douai School was a public ( fee-charging boarding) school run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine community at Woolhampton, England, until it closed in 1999.
