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It stands in place of the old basketball court, which was previously the location of the swimming pool. The swimming pool was reputed to be the oldest heated pool in Ireland (1901), and used to stand beside Harding House, a temporary teaching building which was demolished to make space for the East Suite. The school has five tennis courts and three rugby pitches. A sports hall was opened in 2000 and two floodlit, sand-dressed hockey pitches were laid in 2013. As well as hosting school fixtures, these pitches are home to South Antrim Hockey Club.
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The original school house is no longer standing, but the date stone from it is displayed in Middle House, a building dating from 1880, which was refurbished in 2015. The latest addition to the school is the East Suite, a teaching building containing Maths and Music classes, which was opened in 2016.
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Friends’ School Lisburn was founded – as The Ulster Provincial School – on the basis of a bequest in 1764 of a prosperous linen merchant, John Hancock, who left £1,000 for the purchase of land in or near Lisburn on which to build a school for the children of Quakers. Twenty acres (8 ha) at
893: 232:. In 1774, the first headmaster, John Gough, took up his post. In 1794 The Ulster Provincial School became the responsibility of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting, the body representing the Religious Society of Friends in 608:
The school consists of a fee-paying preparatory department, Prospect House, and a grammar school, the latter of which had, until the early 2000s, a boarding department attracting pupils from abroad (mostly
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as Northern Ireland Secondary School of the Year on two occasions: first in 2011 and then in 2017.
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for much of the 18th and 19th centuries. There are eight in the
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54°31′05″N 6°02′42″W / 54.518°N 6.045°W / 54.518; -6.045

Lisburn
County Antrim
Northern Ireland
Voluntary grammar
Religious Society of Friends
Quaker
www.friendsschoollisburn.org.uk/
Quaker
grammar school
Lisburn
Northern Ireland
Earl of Hertford
Ulster

Quaker
Newtown School, Waterford
Ballitore
United Kingdom
The Sunday Times
Hong Kong
Category:People educated at Friends' School, Lisburn
Wallace Arthur
Michael Dibdin
Stephen Ferris
Keith Getty
Bulmer Hobson
Irish Volunteers
Irish Republican Brotherhood

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