Lady Hawkins' School

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Lady Hawkins' School
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Lady Hawkins' School
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HR5 3AR

Coordinates 52°12′09″N3°02′19″W / 52.2025°N 3.0385°W / 52.2025; -3.0385
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Type Academy
Established29 September 1632
Local authority Herefordshire
Department for Education URN 137608 Tables
Ofsted Reports
ChairStephen Grist
HeadteacherAllen Brace
Gender Mixed
Age11to 16
Enrolment351 as of January 2015
Website www.lhs.hereford.sch.uk

Lady Hawkins' School is a 11-16 secondary school in Kington, Herefordshire. The headteacher is Allen Brace. [1]

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The sixth form was one of the smallest in Herefordshire and was threatened with closure in 2006; however, it remained open until 2019 when it finally closed.[ citation needed ]

History

The school was founded on 29 September 1632 with funding from the estate of Lady Margaret Hawkins (widow of Sir John Hawkins) who had died in 1619. [2] In her will, dated 23 April 1619, she left £800 'for the purchasing of lands or tenements of a yearly value of forty pounds for and towards the perpetual maintenance of a learned and choice preaching divine, the Master, to keep a free school in Kington, in the County of Herefordshire, and of a learned and discreet Usher under him, for the instructing and teaching of youths and children in literature and good education.' [3]

Captain Anthony Lewis, servant to Lady Hawkins and acting executor of the will, purchased School Farm, Upper Hergest, in 1622 to produce the necessary forty pounds a year for running the school. He paid £26 13s 4d for a piece of ground in Kington on which the school would be built. Lewis contracted John Abel of Sarnesfield to build it. John Abel, who was Carpenter to King Charles I, was to provide the materials and was paid £240 for his work.

The school is now housed in modern buildings erected in 1962 and 1973, with other buildings erected more recently, almost all of which have been refurbished between 1990 and 1995 to meet the challenges and demands of recent curriculum developments. The original 1600s building is now in use as a private residence. [4]

The school has a tradition on visiting the nearby parish church, St. Mary's, to give thanks for its foundation and all those who have served in it over three and a half centuries. [2]

Notable former pupils

  1. "Home". Lady Hawkins’ School is an 11-16 School. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  2. 1 2 "School History". www.lhs.hereford.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  3. BBC. "A school with a slaving past" . Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  4. "St Mary's, Kington". Visit Herefordshire Churches. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  5. "Lady Hawkins' School team finds surprise success in seven-school tournament". Hereford Times . 23 February 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2011.

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