Editing Winchester College (section)

== Accommodation ==

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=== College ===

The seventy [[Scholarship|scholars]] live in the original buildings, known as "College". The scholars are known as "Collegemen", and the schoolmaster in charge of them is called the Master in College. Collegemen wear black gowns, following the founding traditions of the school. Collegemen enjoy certain privileges compared to the Commoners, such as having open fires and being allowed to walk across Meads, the walled sports field outside School.<ref>{{cite web |title=Winchester College |url=https://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/Education/College/college.html |website=The City of Winchester |access-date=8 October 2020 |date=1990}}</ref>

=== Boarding houses ===

Every pupil at Winchester, apart from the Scholars, lives in a [[boarding house]], chosen or allocated when applying to Winchester. It is here that he studies, eats and sleeps. Each house is presided over by a housemaster (who takes on the role in addition to teaching duties), assisted by house tutors. Houses compete against each other in school sports. Each house has an official name, usually based on the family name of the first housemaster, which is used mainly as a postal address. Each house also has an informal name, usually based on the name or nickname of an early housemaster. Each house also has a letter, in the order of their founding, to act as an abbreviation, especially on laundry tags. A member of a house is described by the informal name of the house with "-ite" suffixed, as "a Furleyite", "a Toyeite", "a Cookite" and so on. College does not have an informal name, although the abbreviation ''Coll'' is sometimes used; "X" (meaning, not one of the boarding houses) was originally used only on laundry tags.<ref>{{cite web |title=Houses |url=https://www.winchestercollege.org/living/houses |publisher=Winchester College |access-date=8 October 2020}}</ref>