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Salisbury Cathedral School is a co-educational private school in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, which was founded in 1091 by Saint Osmund. The choristers of Salisbury Cathedral are educated at the school.
One of the oldest educational establishments in the world, our school was founded in 1091 by St Osmund, nephew of William the Conqueror and Bishop of Salisbury, to educate the choristers of his Cathedral at Old Sarum, a mile away from our present site.
Bishop Wordsworth's School is a Church of England boys' grammar school in Salisbury, Wiltshire for boys aged 11 to 18. The school is regularly amongst the top-performing schools in England, and in 2010 was the school with the best results in the English Baccalaureate.
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The County, p. 349. Swindon, p. 355. Schools, p. 357. Ancient educational institutions are not numerous in Wiltshire. At the timewhen the ecclesiastical and social changes of the 16th century were altering thebasis of education in England, only three towns in the county secured any ofthe confiscated ecclesiastical revenues for the establishment of ...
The establishment of a grammar school in Salisbury Close (1540) (fn. 4) only slightly preceded those built upon the chantry revenues after 1548. Of the three places which thensecured schools, (fn. 5) Bradford and Trowbridge had theirs taken away by letters patent ofElizabeth I on 10 May 1569, because these 'upland towns' had 'small resort of gentle...
The history of education in Swindon is almost entirely that of the years since 1841,when the G.W.R. began to make it a modern industrial town, 'coherent and ratherisolated' (fn. 60) in a very rural county. From its arrival 'the active co-operation of the G.W.R.company has contributed materially to the development of education in general and oftechn...
The Cathedral School, Salisbury
The claim that Salisbury's Cathedral School wasfounded in 1314 (fn. 77) rests upon the fact that it is thechoristers' school, and in that year Edward II confirmed the grant by Bishop Simon of Ghent of rentsfrom premises in Salisbury to be applied for thesustenance of fourteen choir boys of the cathedraland a master to teach them grammar. (fn. 78) This endowment was followed in 1322 by a grant of the advowson of Preshute (fn. 79) by Bishop Roger Mortival and laterby 100s. annual rent from West...
Dauntsey's School
It was on 10 March 1542 that Alderman WilliamDauntsey (fn. 92) made the will to which Dauntsey'sSchool owes its origin. William came of a WestLavington offshoot of the Trowbridge branch of thefamily; as a fourth son, he had made a career forhimself in London, where in 1504 he became amember of the Mercers' Company. His will assignedhis London property to that company, directing hisexecutors to 'cause... a house for a School to bekept in and 8 chambers to be edifyed and builded'in West Lavingt...
Marlborough Grammar School
When the dissolution of the chantries in 1548 deprived Marlborough of the Hospital of St. John andthe Jesus services in the town's two churches, theburgesses petitioned for the hospital to be convertedinto a 'Free-scole for the inducement of youth'. Inresponse, letters patent were issued on 18 October1550 establishing a grammar school at Marlborough. (fn. 102) The mayor and burgesses were givenpower to make ordinances for its government, butthe master was to be appointed by the head of theSey...
Bishop Wordsworth’s School was founded in 1890 by John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury. When he established the school his intention was that it should be a centre for education right at the very heart of Salisbury, in what is probably the most beautiful Cathedral Close in Europe.
Community History. The Cathedral School, Salisbury. Click on a photograph to view it. This was probably founded by Bishop Osmund, later St. Osmund, in the late 11th century and a date of 1091...
It is not only home to the Cathedral choirs but to many children with a huge range of interests and talents in other areas. Do you know this school? The schools we choose, and what we say about them, are founded on parents’ views.
