Winchester College

Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. It is the 'original' public school and the model for later schools like Eton and Harrow. Officially called "Collegium Santae Mariae prope Wintoniensem", or "St. Mary's College outside Winchester", although the only time this name is used is when the college is being contacted by the water board. Instead, the college is commonly referred to as "Win: Coll:" or just "Winchester". Winchester has existed for over six hundred years and claims to have the longest unbroken history of any school in England.

List of Boarding Houses

Each house has an official name, used mainly as a postal address, and an informal name, usually based on the familiar name of the original housemaster. Each house also has a letter assigned to it, in the order of their founding, to act as an abbreviation.

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College does not have an informal name, although the abbreviation Coll: is sometimes used, especially on written work. It also has a letter assigned to it, X, but it is considered bad form to use this other than as a laundry mark.

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