St Piran's (school)

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St Piran's
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St Piran's (school)
Gringer Hill

Maidenhead
,
Berkshire
,
SL6 7LZ

England
Information
Type Private preparatory day school
Religious affiliation Church of England
Established1805;220 years ago (1805)
Local authority Windsor and Maidenhead
Department for Education URN 110126 Tables
HeadmasterSeb Sales
GenderCoeducational
Age3to 11
Enrolment~350
Website http://www.stpirans.co.uk/

St Piran's is a prep school located on Gringer Hill in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The school was known as Cordwalles School until 1919 and has been co-educational since the 1990s.

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History

The origin of St Piran's was in 1805 at a small school, the Revd John Potticary's school in Blackheath, at 2–3 Eliot Place. [1] After moving to its present location in 1872, it operated as a boys' boarding school under the name of Cordwalles School until 1919. [2] Up to this time, it was among a group of preparatory schools – which included Stubbington House School and Eastman's Royal Naval Academy – that maintained strong connections with the Royal Navy. [3] In that year, 1919, the school was bought by Major Vernon Seymour Bryant who renamed it St Piran's. It reopened in 1920 with 23 boys, increasing to 65 the following year. [2]

After becoming an educational trust in 1972, the school became co-educational in 1993, and boarding ended the same year. [2] In 2005, St. Piran's celebrated its 200th anniversary with a bicentennial pageant. In 2008 a new geography room and lower school hall were completed.

Headmasters

To date, the headmasters of the school have been: [2]

Former pupils

References

  1. ↑ Rhind, N. (1993) Blackheath Village & Environs, 1790–1990, Vol.1 The Village and Blackheath Vale (Bookshop Blackheath, London), p.157.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "School history". St Pirans School Maidenhead. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  3. ↑ Leinster-Mackay, Donald P. (1988). "The nineteenth-century English preparatory school: cradle and crèche of Empire?". In Mangan, J. A. (ed.). 'Benefits Bestowed'?: Education and British Imperialism. Manchester University Press. p. 66. ISBN   9780719025174 . Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "BARRY, Admiral Sir Claud Barrington". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. November 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.(subscription required)
  5. ↑ Blake, Robert (1967) [1966]. Disraeli . New York: St Martin's Press. OCLC   400326.
  6. ↑ "MALONE, Lt-Col Cecil L'Estrange". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2012.(subscription required)
  7. ↑ "MOLLO, Victor". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2012.(subscription required)
  8. ↑ "WILLIAM-POWLETT, Vice-Admiral Sir Peveril (Barton Reibey Wallop)". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. November 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.(subscription required)
  9. ↑ "Thomas Gibson & Thomas Field Gibson". Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  10. ↑ Ronalds, B.F. (2016). Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph. London: Imperial College Press. ISBN   978-1-78326-917-4.
  11. 1 2 Cooper, Artemis, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (2012), p.15, ISBN   978-0-7195-5449-0.

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