Christmas carol 'Good King Wenceslas' was written in 1853, co-composed by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore, who taught at St. Mark's, our founding college, for twenty-five years. There he trained the students to sing a daily unaccompanied choral
⛪ The real Vicar of Dibley is a Marjon graduate, Joy Carroll. Joy was one of the first women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England and became the main model for the character of Geraldine Grainger, played by Dawn French.
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. A few years afterwards he meet one of our founders, James Kay Shuttleworth. They shared an interest in ragged schools. Dickens suggested they open one together, but they diverged in opinion on