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St Mary's School, Shaftesbury

St Mary's School, Shaftesbury: Catholic girls' independent boarding and day school (ages 9-18) founded 1945 by the IBVM at Coombe House; closed 30 September 2020, site bought by Dorset Council for a SEND school.

St Mary's Stadium

St Mary's Stadium, Southampton FC's home ground since 2001, also called The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium (2001-2006). All-seater bowl of 32,384 seats near the River Itchen, built for £32m to replace The Dell.

St Matthew Passion

St Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion), BWV 244, Bach's two-part oratorio for double choir and double orchestra on Matthew 26-27, premiered Good Friday 1727 in Leipzig, revived by Mendelssohn in 1829.

St Michael's College, Dublin

St Michael's College, Dublin (roll 60561G): fee-paying Catholic boys' school on Ailesbury Road, Dublin 4, founded 1944 by the Spiritans, extended to secondary level in 1975; 731 pupils in 2025/26, noted as a leading Irish rugby feeder school.

St Michael's Mount

St Michael's Mount (Karrek Loos yn Koos) is a Cornish tidal island off Marazion with a medieval castle and former Benedictine priory of Mont-Saint-Michel, now a National Trust site and St Aubyn family home reached by causeway or boat.

St Mirren F.C.

St Mirren F.C., Paisley club named after the town's patron saint, founded 1877, Scottish Premiership side, fan-owned via SMISA since 2021, three Scottish Cups, 2025 League Cup winners, home at the SMiSA Stadium.

St Nazaire Raid

Operation Chariot, the St Nazaire Raid of 28 March 1942: British Royal Navy and Commando attack that rammed explosive-laden HMS Campbeltown into the Normandie dry dock, denying the Tirpitz Atlantic repairs.

St Nedelya Church assault

The St Nedelya Church assault was a terrorist bombing by the Bulgarian Communist Party's Military Organization at Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral on 16 April 1925, killing 213.

St Olave's Church, Hart Street

St Olave's Church, Hart Street: Grade I listed medieval City of London church founded around 1050, dedicated to St Olaf of Norway; survived the Great Fire, burial place of Samuel Pepys, damaged in the 1941 Blitz and restored 1951–54.

St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, officially London St Pancras International, is a central London terminus on Euston Road, opened in 1868 and the Eurostar terminal since 2007.

St Patrick's Athletic F.C.

St Patrick's Athletic F.C. (the Saints), Irish football club founded 1929 in Inchicore, Dublin, playing at Richmond Park in the League of Ireland Premier Division; 9 league titles (2001/02 disputed), 5 FAI Cups.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin is the Church of Ireland national cathedral of Ireland, founded in 1191, with its present Gothic building dating from 1220 to 1259.

St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth

St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth (Coláiste Phádraig, Maigh Nuad) is Ireland's national Catholic seminary founded in 1795, a Pontifical University since 1896, sharing a campus but legally separate from Maynooth University since 1997.

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of London on Ludgate Hill, designed by Christopher Wren and built from 1675 to 1711 after the Great Fire of 1666.

St Paul's Cathedral School

St Paul's Cathedral School, at 2 New Change, London, is the co-educational choir school of St Paul's Cathedral, founded in the 12th century, housed in a Grade II 1962–7 building incorporating Wren's St Augustine tower, with girls admitted from 2024.

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne: Anglican cathedral at Flinders and Swanston Streets, seat of the Archbishop of Melbourne. Designed by William Butterfield, built 1880–1891, spires by John Barr completed 1933.

St Paul's School, London

St Paul's School is a boys' independent day and boarding school in Barnes, London, founded in 1509 by John Colet and governed by the Mercers' Company; distinct from St Paul's Girls' School and St Paul's Cathedral School.

St Peter's School, York

St Peter's School, York is a co-educational independent day and boarding school for ages 2–18 on a 50-acre Clifton campus. Traced to AD 627 by St Paulinus, re-founded in 1557, it is York Minster's choir school with about 1,300 pupils.

St Peters Church, Flawford

St Peter's Church, Flawford (Flawforth) was a lost medieval parish church east of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, built on a Roman villa site, demolished 1773-1779, and famous for the Flawford Alabasters found in 1779.

St Petersburg Imperial University

St Petersburg Imperial University (Императорский Санкт-Петербургский университет) was the university of the Russian capital, founded by Peter I in 1724, re-established in 1819, and a center of the 1899 and 1905 student movements.

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham: Anglican cathedral, formerly the parish church of St Philip, designed by Thomas Archer 1709, consecrated 1715, cathedral of the Diocese of Birmingham since 1905, Grade I listed English Baroque building with Burne-Jones windows.

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, also known as St Sepulchre's, Holborn, is an Anglican parish church on Holborn Viaduct in the City of London, first recorded in 1137.

St Stephen's Green

St Stephen's Green: 9-hectare Victorian public park in central Dublin, enclosed 1663–1664, redesigned by William Sheppard for Lord Ardilaun and reopened 27 July 1880; lake, fountains, 750 trees, 1916 Rising site.

St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Lambeth, London, opposite the Palace of Westminster, with 840 beds and a history dating back to 1173.

St Trinian's (film)

St Trinian's (2007) is a British comedy directed by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson, reviving Ronald Searle's cartoon-based girls' school film series; Rupert Everett and Colin Firth star in a heist plot to save the school from bankruptcy.

St Winefride's Well

St Winefride's Well (Ffynnon Wenfrewi) is a medieval holy well and Catholic pilgrimage shrine in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, famed as Britain's only shrine with unbroken pilgrimage since before the Reformation, with a ca 1500-10 Perpendicular chapel built under Margaret Beaufort.

St Winifred's School Choir

St Winifred's School Choir, from St Winifred's RC Primary School, Stockport, recorded from 1972 and topped the 1980 UK Christmas chart with "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" on MFP.

St-Alban-les-Eaux

St-Alban-les-Eaux, a Loire commune near Roanne, France, site of a Gallo-Roman water sanctuary with monumentalised springs in use from about 30 BC to Late Antiquity, recorded in Pleiades as temple and shrine (BAtlas 17 B1).

St-Andéol (France)

St-Andéol (France): several French communes, villages, and chapels named after Saint Andéol, martyr of the Vivarais (traditionally 208), including Bourg-Saint-Andéol, Saint-Andéol-le-Château, Saint-Andéol-de-Vals, and the Mazan quarter.

St-Andéol-le-Château

Saint-Andéol-le-Château (Sent-Anduér), former commune in the Rhône, France, 20 km southwest of Lyon; medieval fortified village, seigneurie of Lyon's canons from 984; merged into Beauvallon on 1 January 2018.