Beau Manoir – now Eachinkadu (in Yercaud) which houses the novitiates of the Montfort Brothers of St.Gabriel had its doors and ceiling done with the finest teakwood. The doors of the bedrooms and other rooms and also that of the skylight in the dining room and the bell are historical. They belonged to the steamship “JANSON”, which was wrecked not far from Madras in 1861 or 1862, a sad end to a ship that had done such good work in the Crimean War when we was used as a trooper and afterwards as a hospital ship. Florence Nightingale served in this very ship as a nurse during the Crimean war.



Since 1917, the founding of Montfort school, this bell is being used here. It had a place near the Brothers’ Parlour.



The Janson’s Bell is our school Bell, which we in Montfort know so well, summoning us to work, summoning us to play, Awakening us to rise up to our motto – “Virtue and Labour”.



With the dawn of the new Millennium Year 2000, the historical bell got a prominent place of honour. In a central location a specially designed structure was constructed in the shade of blue for this bell. It rings and beckons each one of us to ‘Our Call’ and ‘Commitment’.



‘Jesus Christ – Yesterday, Today and Forever’, the emblem chosen by the Catholic Church in the year 2000, is also embossed on this structure reminding us practicing ‘Values like in Jesus’.