List of oldest schools in Wiltshire explained

A list of the oldest schools in Wiltshire, England, in the order of their date of foundation.

Schools still in operation

RankSchool nameLocationEstablishedAge (years)
1Salisbury Cathedral SchoolSalisbury1091[1]
2Dauntsey's SchoolWest Lavington1542 [2]
3Warminster SchoolWarminster1707 [3]
4Box Primary SchoolBox1708 [4]
5Godolphin SchoolSalisbury1726 [5]
6St Mary's School, Broughton GiffordBroughton Gifford1782 [6]
7Matravers SchoolWestbury1814 [7]
8St Edmund's Girls' SchoolLaverstock1815 [8]
9Lacock Primary SchoolLacock1824 [9]
10Preshute Church of England Primary SchoolPreshute1833 [10]
11Marlborough CollegeMarlborough1843 [11]
12Pitton Primary SchoolPitton1850
13Neston Primary SchoolNeston1861 [12]
14St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary SchoolDevizes1864 [13]
15St Mary's School, CalneCalne1873[14]
16Chafyn Grove SchoolSalisbury1879
17Sandroyd SchoolTollard Royal1888[15]
18Bishop Wordsworth's SchoolSalisbury1889[16]
19Stonar SchoolAtworth1895[17]

Former schools and colleges

RankNameLocationEstablishedClosedAge (years)
1College of the Valley ScholarsSalisbury1262[18] 1542
2Heytesbury Grammar SchoolHeytesbury1472[19] Late 17th or early 18th century[20] [21]
3Marlborough Royal Free Grammar SchoolMarlborough1550[22] 1975
4City Grammar School, SalisburySalisbury1561[23] [24] 1865[25]
5Bentley's School, CalneCalne1660/1665[26] 1974
6Fitzmaurice Grammar SchoolBradford-on-Avon1897[27] 1980

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Salisbury Cathedral School. History & Inspection Reports. Retrieved 6 February 2019
  2. Web site: Dauntsey's. History of the School. Retrieved 6 February 2019
  3. Web site: Warminster School. 17 February 2023. Our History. Retrieved 6 February 2019
  4. Web site: Wiltshire Community History. Box - Box Church of England Primary School, Box. Retrieved 6 February 2019
  5. Web site: UK Boarding Schools. Godolphin, Salisbury. Retrieved 6 February 2019
  6. Web site: Wiltshire Community History . St.Mary's Broughton Gifford V.C. C. of E. Primary . Wiltshire Council . 13 September 2024.
  7. Web site: Westbury Heritage Society. Schools. Retrieved 7 February 2019
  8. Web site: St Edmund's Girls' School, Salisbury. Heritage and history. Retrieved 7 February 2019
  9. Web site: Lacock Primary. The History of Lacock Church of England Primary School. Retrieved 8 February 2019
  10. Web site: Preshute Primary. History of our School. Retrieved 8 February 2019
  11. Web site: Marlborough College. College History. Retrieved 9 February 2019
  12. Web site: Neston Primary. Neston - A Brief History. Retrieved 7 February 2019
  13. Web site: St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. History of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. Retrieved 7 February 2019
  14. Kay Stedmond St Mary's School Calne 1873–1986 (B. A. Hathaway, 1986,), p. 6
  15. https://www.sandroyd.org/1888-to-Present-Day/ Sandroyd - 1888 to Present Day
  16. Frederick Crossfield Happold, Bishop Wordsworth's School 1890–1950 (Printed for Bishop Wordsworth's School, 1950), p. 7
  17. Web site: Stonar School. School History. Retrieved 7 February 2019
  18. [Arthur Francis Leach]
  19. [Arthur Francis Leach]
  20. "Hospitals: St John and St Katherine, Heytesbury", in A History of the County of Wiltshire, Vol. 3. (London: Victoria County History, 1956), 337-340
  21. 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…"
  22. The Educational Calendar and Scholastic Year-book for 1871, p. 87
  23. [Nicholas Carlisle]
  24. [Hugh Chisholm]
  25. https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/School/Details/530 "City Grammar School, Salisbury"
  26. "The Bentley School, Calne", in Wiltshire Victoria County History, Vol. 5 (London: Victoria County History, 1957), pp. 348–368
  27. Keith Berry, Bradford on Avon's schools: the story of education in a small Wiltshire town (Bradford on Avon, Ex Libris Books, 1998, p: 123

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