List of oldest schools in Wiltshire
A list of the oldest schools in Wiltshire, in the order of their date of foundation.
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Schools still in operation[]
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Rank | School name | Location | Established | Age (years) |
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1 | Salisbury Cathedral School | Salisbury | 1091[1] | 931 |
2 | Dauntsey's School | West Lavington | 1542 [2] | 480 |
3 | Warminster School | Warminster | 1707 [3] | 315 |
4 | Box Primary School | Box | 1708 [4] | 314 |
5 | Godolphin School | Salisbury | 1726 [5] | 296 |
6 | Matravers School | Westbury | 1814 [6] | 208 |
7 | St Edmund's Girls' School | Laverstock | 1815 [7] | 207 |
8 | Lacock Primary School | Lacock | 1824 [8] | 198 |
9 | Preshute Church of England Primary School | Preshute | 1833 [9] | 189 |
10 | Marlborough College | Marlborough | 1843 [10] | 179 |
11 | Neston Primary School | Neston | 1861 [11] | 161 |
12 | St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School | Devizes | 1864 [12] | 158 |
13 | St Mary's School, Calne | Calne | 1873[13] | 149 |
14 | Chafyn Grove School | Salisbury | 1879 | 143 |
15 | Sandroyd School | Tollard Royal | 1888[14] | 134 |
16 | Bishop Wordsworth's School | Salisbury | 1889[15] | 133 |
17 | Stonar School | Atworth | 1895[16] | 127 |
Former schools[]
Rank | School name | Location | Established | Closed | Age (years) |
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1 | Heytesbury Grammar School | Heytesbury | 1472[17] | Uncertain[18] | |
2 | Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School | Marlborough | 1550[19] | 1975 | 425 |
3 | Bentley Grammar School | Calne | 1663[20] | 1974 | 311 |
4 | Fitzmaurice Grammar School | Bradford-on-Avon | 1897[21] | 1980 | 83 |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Salisbury Cathedral School". History & Inspection Reports. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ "Dauntsey's". History of the School. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ "Warminster School". Our History. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ "Wiltshire Community History". Box - Box Church of England Primary School, Box. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ "UK Boarding Schools". Godolphin, Salisbury. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ "Westbury Heritage Society". Schools. Retrieved 7 February 2019
- ^ "St Edmund's Girls' School, Salisbury". Heritage and history. Retrieved 7 February 2019
- ^ "Lacock Primary". The History of Lacock Church of England Primary School. Retrieved 8 February 2019
- ^ "Preshute Primary". History of our School. Retrieved 8 February 2019
- ^ "Marlborough College". College History. Retrieved 9 February 2019
- ^ "Neston Primary". Neston - A Brief History. Retrieved 7 February 2019
- ^ "St Joseph's Catholic Primary School". History of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. Retrieved 7 February 2019
- ^ Kay Stedmond St Mary's School Calne 1873–1986 (B. A. Hathaway, 1986, ISBN 0-948640-10-3), p. 6
- ^ Sandroyd - 1888 to Present Day, sandroyd.org, accessed 27 July 2020
- ^ Frederick Crossfield Happold, Bishop Wordsworth's School 1890–1950 (Printed for Bishop Wordsworth's School, 1950), p. 7
- ^ "Stonar School". School History. Retrieved 7 February 2019
- ^ Arthur Francis Leach, The Schools of Medieval England (Dalcassian Publishing Company, 1915), p. 272
- ^ Arthur Francis Leach, English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 (1896), p. 29: "Another singular story of the disappearance of an ancient foundation is that of Heytesbury School attached to Heytesbury Hospital in Wiltshire. This was (pp. 256, 262) the Hospital of S. John Baptist of the foundation of Margaret Lady Hungerford…"
- ^ The Educational Calendar and Scholastic Year-book for 1871, p. 87
- ^ "The John Bentley School". School History. Retrieved 6 February 2019
- ^ Keith Berry, Bradford on Avon's schools: the story of education in a small Wiltshire town (Bradford on Avon, Ex Libris Books, 1998 ISBN 0-948578-96-3, p: 123
External links[]
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