Cathedral school
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Cathedral schools were, from the early Middle Ages those schools run by the cathedral clergy, typically having fewer than 100 students. They generally functioned as seminaries to train future priests, but later accepted lay students. Often they would also teach members of the cathedral choir. In Europe, important cathedral schools were located in York, Orleans and Rheims.
Such schools still exist today around the world:
- United Kingdom: among others:
- The two King's schools at Canterbury and Rochester (originally cathedral schools);
- St Paul's Cathedral;
- Westminster
- Chelmsford;
- Wells;
- Hereford
- United States: among others:
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Arlington, Virginia - St Thomas More Cathedral School
- Kalamazoo, Michigan - St Augustine Cathedral School
- Natchez, Mississippi
- Australia:
- Sydney - St Andrew's
