page_title: Stanton St. John
section_title: Economic and social history
hierarchical_section_title: Stanton St. John / Economic and social history
caption_attribution_description: English: The Holford Centre, Stanton St John, Oxfordshire: view from the east, showing the 18th-century teacher's house (right) and 1874 schoolrooms (left)
context_page_description: Stanton St. John is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about 4.5 miles northeast of the centre of Oxford. The village is 330 feet above sea level on the eastern brow of a group of hills northeast of Oxford, in a slight saddle between two of the hills.
context_section_description: The village retains several 16th and 17th stone-built houses, including Manor Farm and John White's house. The Puritan minister John White (1575–1648) was born here. He was the vicar of Dorchester, Dorset, and was nicknamed the "Patriarch of Dorchester". White was instrumental in founding the New England colony of Massachusetts. A later John White ran Manor Farm on behalf of New College, and repaired the Manor Farm house in 1660.
  During the English Civil War, Royalist troops were stationed in the village in 1643 and 1644 as part of the defence of Oxford against Parliamentarian forces to the east. In 1646 Parliamentarian troops occupied the village during the siege of Oxford.
  An open field system of farming originally predominated in the parish. By 1706 a number of fields had been enclosed, but more than 400 acres (160 ha) of common land remained until they were enclosed by an Act of Parliament in 1777.
  In 1717 Dame Elizabeth Holford left a bequest to be invested until it was large enough to endow a free school for the parish. Trustees to set up the school were appointed in 1759 and it started teaching in the vicarage in 1764. A school was built on land provided by New College and completed in 1767. In 1874 the schoolrooms were demolished and rebuilt to comply with the Education Act 1870. By the 1950s the school was a Church of England primary school. The school closed in 1984 and became the Holford Centre in 1989. It is now used by a pre-school and for other educational purposes.
caption: The Holford Centre, formerly the parish school. On the right is the 18th-century teacher's house; on the left are the classrooms built in 1874
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