Chipping Campden School

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Established c. 1440 Principal Mr John Sanderson Phone +44 1386 840216 Number of students 1,290		Type Academy Chairman of Governors Mr Andrew Sunderland Date founded 1440
Founders John Fereby, Baptist Hicks, George Townsend Location Cidermill Lane Chipping Campden Gloucestershire GL55 6HU England Address Cidermill Ln, Chipping Campden GL55 6HU, UK Profiles Facebook

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Chipping Campden School is a non-selective secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Chipping Campden, in the English county of Gloucestershire. The school was formed in 1964 on the amalgamation of Campden Grammar School and Moreton in Marsh Secondary Modern School.

Campden School was founded around 1440 in the small market town of Chipping Campden (known as Campden by the locals) in north Gloucestestershire, the heart of the Cotswolds.

The school was founded with money left by John Fereby and his wife, a wealthy wool merchant, for the education of the poor boys of the town. Further investments were provided by Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden and later the Earl of Gainsborough in the 17th century and John Townsend. The school now uses these founders as its house names.

The original school buildings were situated in the High Street in Chipping Campden offering boarding for boys and later girls in other local buildings.

The purpose-built school which forms the heart of the current site on Cidermill Lane was constructed in 1927 and was first occupied in 1928. The school ceased to be a grammar school in 1965 when it merged with Moreton Secondary Modern School to become a comprehensive. The school buildings were substantially enlarged in 1964 to house the incoming students from Moreton.

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Headmasters of Chipping Campden Grammar School (up to 1964)

1547 Sir Robert Glaseman

1627 Rev Ambrose Jenks

1632 Rev Broadway

1635 Rev Samuel Edwards

1647 Rev Butler

1648 Rev Mason MA

1664 Rev Kirkham

1669 Rev Taylor

1686 Rev Morse

1700 Rev Smith

1717 Rev R Goodhall

1741 Rev Lumbert

1766 Rev W Boyce

1772 Rev T Symonds

1797 Rev J Worgan

1822 Rev R O Wilson

1832 Rev J Harling

1835 Rev T F Layng

1837 Rev H Miniken

1840- Rev Barton

1855 Rev G B Dodwell

1862 Rev Dr S F Hiron

1871 Rev J Foster

1889 Mr F B Osborne

1913 Mr W M Cox MA

1927 Mr W J Bright MA

1951 Mr A L Jones MC MA

Headteachers of Chipping Campden School

1965 Mr A L Jones MC MA

1976 Mr P T Sandry MA MEd

1994 Mr J Price BA

2007 Ms A France MSc MEd

Principals of Chipping Campden School

2011 Ms A France MSc MEd

2012 Mr J Sanderson BA (Hons) MA

References

Chipping Campden School Wikipedia

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