Stonelea School

One of the private boarding schools in Trinovant, located close to Maidstone, Stonelea is where Aubrey and George receive their secondary education. The school is over four hundred years old, and offers a wide variety of courses for young men, including, but not limited to, magic, music, a cadetship program, sports, theatre, and standard core subjects.

Magic Laboratories

 * Contained in a large stone building a hundred yards to the south of the rest of the school, the magic labs were moved there after a series of fires, explosions, and an earthquake destroyed fourteen previous buildings, to minimise damage to other structures. Above the door was a leadlight glass window, donated by the 'famously tasteless Lord Wallington' [BoG, 18], which was destroyed the night of Aubrey's magical accident.
 * Home to the portraits of Stonelea's founders, who all share the traits of 'rigid posture, enormous bushy eyebrows and a lack of a sense of humour' [BoG, 9], which they encourage in their students. Described as a Gothic monstrosity, it is the oldest part of the school, comprised of a collection of towers, steeples, and pointed arches, and home to thousands of pigeons.


 * The main hall is filled with wooden seats that keep in the spirit of the founders by being lengendary in their hardness. A gallery overlooks the seats, for the sole beneficiary use of parents and dignitaries during prize-givings and school plays each year.


 * Aubrey makes use of a small room off the main hall for some of his magical experiments, and is the place where his Aubrey's Magical Accident occurred. The room has stone walls, a slanted roof eighteen feet above, a small window with diamond-shaped panes of glass with blue velvet curtains across it. The floor is made of parquetry, with a large, worn rug of vaguely Eastern design [BoG, 22]. A dark wood rectangular table with four mismatched chairs make up the only furniture inside it.

Dormitory Rooms

 * Equipped with few luxuries, students who live on campus at Stonelea are housed in rooms that contain beds with thin mattresses, large desks for study, wooden, straight-backed chairs, a single window, and large, boxy wardrobes for the storage of clothing and valuables.


 * George had procured a battered, moth-eaten armchair for his and Aubrey's room, which rested by the window. Aubrey keeps his desk covered in alchemical apparatus and notes from his magical research and studies.

Staff

 * Mr Ellwood- Aubrey's Magic teacher
 * Mr DeWinter- Geography Master