Sherborne School

Sherborne School is an English independent boarding school for boys, located beside Sherborne Abbey, in the parish of Sherborne, Dorset. The school has remained in the same location for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by St Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Sherborne is one of the twelve founding member public schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference in 1869 and is a member of the Eton Group.

Sherborne School
Address
Sherborne School
Sherborne School
Sherborne School
Abbey Road

Sherborne
,
Dorset
,
DT9 3AP

United Kingdom
Coordinates50.9478°N 2.5145°W / 50.9478; -2.5145
Information
TypePublic school
Independent, boarding school
MottoFrench: Dieu et Mon Droit
(God and My Right)[1]
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England
Established705 by Aldhelm, re-founded by King Edward VI 1550
FounderSt Aldhelm
Department for Education URN113918 Tables
Chairman of the GovernorsRoger Fidgen[2]
HeadmasterDr Dominic Luckett[3]
ChaplainRev Dr David Campbell
Staff165
GenderBoys
Age13 to 18ƒ
Enrolment560 pupils as of 2019
Houses8 (9 from 2021)
Colour(s)Blue & gold (hamstone)

  

SongCarmen Shirburniense
PublicationThe Shirburnian
Former pupilsOld Shirburnians
Websitehttp://www.sherborne.org
Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, visiting Sherborne School on 19 July 1923
On 1 June 1950 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Sherborne School and took part in the celebrations marking the four hundredth anniversary of the granting of Sherborne's royal charter in 1550
Sherborne boys in Blues walking across the Courts to classes

In the public school tradition, Sherborne remains a full boarding school with boys living seven days a week in one of nine boarding houses. Sherborne is one of only five such remaining single-sex boys' boarding independent senior schools in the United Kingdom (the others being Eton, Harrow, Radley, and Winchester)[4], although uniquely Sherborne also admits a few day boys. Sherborne educates about 560 boys, aged 13 to 18, and its A level results placed it in the top 1% of all schools in England in 2016 and 2017.[5]

Sherborne has a partnership with the neighbouring Sherborne Girls school. While both are single-sex full boarding schools, a programme of shared academic, co-curricular and social activities enables Sherborne boys and girls to mix and work together at a crucial developmental stage. [6]

It has been said that nowhere else in England is the connection of the present with the past more pleasingly marked than at Sherborne School.[7]

History

705 to 1539

Sherborne was founded as a cathedral school when in 705 AD King Ine of Wessex instructed Aldhelm, the foremost churchman and most distinguished scholar of his day, to found a cathedral and college of clergy at Sherborne to relieve pressure from the growing see of Winchester.[8] It is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom.[9]

Anglo-Saxon masonry survives in the Beckett Room, below the School Library, a reminder that Sherborne continues to occupy part of the Saxon Cathedral to which it owes its foundation.

Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo Saxons, is held to have been an early pupil of the school, a tradition supported by the seat of West Saxon government having moved to Sherborne in 860 (after Winchester was sacked by the Danes) when Alfred was about 11 years old. That Alfred's son, later Bishop of Sherborne, was also educated at a cathedral school (in Winchester following its recovery by Wessex) is regarded as additional presumptive evidence in support of the claim.

  • Sherborne was founded as a cathedral school by St Aldhelm in 705
  • The school was re-founded by King Edward VI in 1550
  • The School Room and Headmaster's House by Nathaniel Whittock (1791-1860)
  • The arms of King Edward VI above a school doorway
  • Sherborne School in 1861 (Illustrated London News)
  • The main entrance to Sherborne School

Aldhelm was the first Bishop of Sherborne, and the school remained under the direction of Sherborne's bishops until 1122 when its supervision passed to the abbot of the Benedictine monastery which had been established at Sherborne by Wulfsige III in 998. The School continued under monastic direction until the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII in 1539.

The school continues to occupy the site of the former monastery; the School Chapel (12th century, modified in the 15th, 19th, and 20th centuries), the School Library (13th century, modified in the 15th century), and the Abbot's House, occupied by the headmaster and the senior staff (13th century, modified in the 15th century), are all former monastic buildings. The outlines of the monastic cloister, and curious first floor Abbot’s Chapel, are visible on the walls beyond the Abbot's House.[10]

1539 to 1550

While the dissolution of the Benedictine Monastery of Sherborne in 1539 had an impact on administration and finances, Sherborne School remained in continuous operation, as evidenced by extant documents including the Abbey churchwardens' accounts for 1542, which record a rent received from the school, and conclusively from a note on the certificate for Dorset under the Chantries Act, dated 14 January 1548, which records the school at Sherborne as continuatur quousque [long continued].[9]

1550 to date

On 29 March 1550 a formal instruction was issued by King Edward VI to re-found Sherborne School together with a good endowment of lands that the school might ever endure. A beautifully engrossed Royal Charter was sealed on 13 May 1550, under which the school was to have a headmaster and usher for the education of boys, and a board of twenty governors under a warden. A further note of continuity was struck when the last headmaster of Sherborne under the old foundation, William Gibson, was appointed as the first headmaster under the new foundation.

When Edward VI re-founded Sherborne, he granted the school an endowment of valuable lands which belonged to abolished Chantries in the churches of Martock, Gillingham, Lytchett Matravers, Ilminster and the Free Chapel of Thornton in the parish of Marnhull.[10] The lands with which the Chantries were endowed are predominantly in Dorset, specifically in the manors of:

Sherborne International
Main article: Sherborne International

Established in 1977, Sherborne International is an independent co-educational boarding school, owned and governed by Sherborne School, for those from non-British educational backgrounds who wish to improve their English language skills before moving on to study at boarding schools elsewhere in the United Kingdom. It is located in Sherborne, occupying its own campus, Newell Grange, while sharing some facilities with Sherborne School.[11]

Sherborne Qatar
Main article: Sherborne Qatar

In 2009 Sherborne founded Sherborne Qatar Prep School in Doha, Qatar, followed by Sherborne Qatar Senior School in 2012.[12]

School fees cartel

In 2005, 50 of the country's leading independent schools, including Sherborne, were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, which had allowed them to drive up tuition fees.[13] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000. All schools involved in the scandal agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling £3 million into a trust. The trust was designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.[14] However, Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, and were following a long-established procedure in sharing information with each other, and were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed."[15] [[File:Sherborne school cloisters.jpg|260px|thumb|upright=0.9|Sherborne School undercroft.

Best Head of a Public School

In September 2019 the Headmaster of Sherborne, Dr Dominic Luckett, was named as the Tatler Best Head of a Public School 2020.[16]

School terms

There are three academic terms[17] in the Sherborne year,

  • The Michaelmas Term, from early September to mid December. New boys are admitted at the start of the Michaelmas Term.
  • The Lent Term, from mid-January to late March.
  • The Trinity Term, from late April to late June.

Houses
The cornerstone of School House was laid on 26 June 1860 by the Earl of Shaftesbury and has been in continuous use as a boarding house to this day.

Sherborne is a full boarding school for boys with boarding houses operating on the house system. In addition to a House Master, each house has a Matron, Assistant Matron, Senior Tutor and one or more Resident Tutors. Each house has around 70 boys from across all year groups.

There are nine boarding houses:

HouseDistinctive

letter

 Date

founded

 House Colours
School Housea1860 Magenta and Black
Abbey Houseb1868 Purple and Black
The Greenc1865 Yellow and Black
Harper Housed1873 Light Blue and Black
Wallace Housee1931 Red and Blue
Abbeylandsf1872 Red and Black
Lyon Houseg1912 Dark Blue and Black
Westcott Househ1920 White and Black
The Digbym1964 Green and Black

While Abbey House is the second oldest school boarding house in continuous use, part of the building was first used as a boarding house from 1835 to 1849 making it technically the oldest Sherborne School house.[18]

Westcott House was closed to pupils in 1999 for use as part of Sherborne International. It will be reopened as a Sherborne boys' boarding house in September 2021.[19]

Sherborne houses are separated into in and out houses, with in houses situated near to the school, and out houses spread out around the town.

Former boarding houses
HouseLetterDates House Colours
Mapperty Houseg1885-1890 White and Black
Ramsam House-1868-1890 Blue and Black

Chapel
View of the Abbey from Sherborne School Courts
Pupils at Sherborne School in 1907

The school chapel was originally the Monastic Hall (built in the 15th century over the 12th century undercroft) used by the Abbot of Sherborne Abbey and was acquired by the school in 1851 from Edward, Earl Digby.[20] It was restored and extended, and in 1855, consecrated as a chapel, dedicated to St John the Evangelist. It has been extended several times: eastwards in 1853; westwards in 1865; northwards, to create the North aisle, in 1878 and; westwards and northwards in 1922 to extend the nave, and create the antechapel which has the names engraved of those who died in the Great War and World War II.

There are two organs in the chapel: one is a 24-stop Neo-Baroque pipe organ by S.F. Blank;[21] the other is a virtual organ by Hauptwerk with the specification of the Hereford Cathedral organ.[22]

Library
Sherborne Library North End
Sherborne Library South End

The library was the Abbot's Guesten Hall (13th century, modified 15th century) and would have looked over the Garth and Conduit before the latter was moved to the town's market place in 1560.The building was later a silk mill and later still, perhaps, a brewery. It was acquired by the school in 1851 and restored in 1853. The Upper Library was used as the main school assembly room up until 1879 (when the Big Schoolroom was built) and has been used as the main school library since. The Lower Library was the Cellarer's store room and outer parlour. Later it was used as three classrooms, then the headmaster's office, but since 1926 it has been used as the Lower Library. In the 1980s the library expanded into the 12th century undercroft below the chapel. From 1670-1861, the school library was situated in the current School House Oak Room (built 1607), before being moved to its current location.

Music
Sherborne School Choir sings in twice weekly services attended by the whole school in the Abbey

Music is a Sherborne tradition. Many boys achieve grade 8 distinctions for voice and a range of instruments. Several boys each year also pass their ATCL diplomas, many with distinction. Some then go on to take their LTCL diplomas.[23] The Week Good Schools Guide named Sherborne as The Best Independent School in the Country for Music in 2015.[24]

In 2010 Sherborne built a new music school with highly specialist recital and recording space. Designed by Richard Keating of Orms, the building won numerous architectural awards including the 2012 RIBA South West Region Award, BCSE Award 2012 and RIBA South West Excellence In Architecture Award 2012.[25]

The school has two choirs, two close harmony groups, a symphony orchestra, sinfonia, chamber orchestra, concert and radio orchestras (Trinity term only), wind band, wind quintet, string, wind, brass and jazz ensembles and various other smaller instrumental ensembles.[26]

Performance spaces include the Tindall Recital Hall, the Big Schoolroom, and the Powell Theatre.

There are two Abbey services a week which are accompanied by the chapel choir, with the chamber choir singing an introit on Sundays. Once a term the chamber choir sings for a service in an external venue. These include: Salisbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and various Oxford College chapels, amongst numerous others, as well as these, international tours are available for various ensembles.

The Sherborne School Choral Society was founded in 1871 by J R Sterndale-Bennett, the then director of music. Nowadays it consists of the Sherborne School choirs, Girls' school Choir, and members of public from the local area. It performs annually and concert venues have included Sherborne Abbey, Wells Cathedral, and Poole Lighthouse.

The school song is Carmen Saeculare, also known as Carmen Shirburniense, and features a rousing last line in each verse of Vivat Rex Eduardus Sextus or Long Live King Edward the Sixth to commemorate the School’s Royal foundation in 1550. The words were written by Edward Mallet Young in 1887, and set to music by Louis Napoleon Parker. It is sung by the entire school, including the staff, although only the first and last verses are sung nowadays.[27]

Sherborne holds its own rock festival in the heart of its historic grounds, aptly named "Concert in the Courts", featuring Shirburnians and boys and girls from local senior schools, performing and spectating. The festival began in the mid 1990s and the proceeds from it are donated to charity.[28]

Sport

Grounds

Sherborne has over 60 acres of sports grounds, all within walking distance from the school.

Sherborne School cricket ground
Sherborne 1st XI 1863

The school's cricket ground – the Upper – is usually used by the 1st XI cricket team. The ground was first used in 1870, when Sherborne School played Clifton College.[29] The ground is also one of the venues used by Dorset for their home fixtures. Dorset played their first match on the ground in the 1902 Minor Counties Championship against Devon. From 1902 to 1997, the ground played host to 69 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Championship match involving Dorset coming in 1997 when they played Herefordshire.[30] In addition, the ground has hosted 13 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches, the last of which was in 2008, when Dorset played Buckinghamshire.[31]

The ground has also played host to a single List A match, when Dorset played Bedfordshire in the 1968 Gillette Cup.[32]

On 30 May 2010, Dorset played Somerset, which included international players such as Craig Kieswetter in a friendly Twenty20 fixture on the ground. On 27 May 2011, the Upper hosted Dorset against Gloucestershire.[33]

Rugby

Rugby has been played at Sherborne since 1846. Sherborne was the third school to take up the sport after Rugby itself and Cheltenham, and it competes in an invitational tournament, the Veterrimi IV, involving the four oldest rugby-playing schools. The school has played over 100 matches against local rivals Downside, and the Pilgrims (Old Shirburnians) played their 100th match against Radley in 2015.[34] Robert Hands, a former sports journalist for The Times, has written a history of rugby at Sherborne School.[35]

School magazine

The Shirburnian is the official School magazine, first published in March 1859. It was devised as ‘an outlet for its [the School’s] wit, and also an easy means of printing all its News, both as regards those of us who are here and those who have left.’ The initial run was short-lived, but it was resurrected in May 1864 and has been published continuously almost every term since that year, becoming an annual publication from 1997.

Films

Sherborne School's buildings and grounds have been used in several films including:

Headmasters

Headmasters of Sherborne from 1437 to the present time

Ushers

The Usher, or Lower Master, was appointed by the Governors of Sherborne independent of the Headmaster. The qualifications required were similar to those for a Headmaster, although he was usually a younger man who might reasonably expect to obtain a headmastership elsewhere in time. He was required to have attained at least a BA from Oxford or Cambridge, and he may have been in Holy Orders.[9]

The Usher was responsible for teaching the lower three forms and had responsibilities over the boys similar to the modern position of a House Tutor. From the fragment of an Account Roll, still extant, dating from 1549, there is evidence that there was an Usher before the Re-founding of Sherborne in 1550, but unfortunately the name is not given.[39] The office was abolished in 1871,[40] although the title was later briefly revived to denote the Senior Deputy Head.[41]

OS = Old Shirburnians

Old Shirburnians
The father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence Alan Turing
Leading English actor Jeremy Irons
Former Commander Land Forces General Sir Nicholas Parker
Lead singer and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay Chris Martin
Writer John le Carré

Former pupils of Sherborne School are known as Old Shirburnians or OS.

Old Shirburnians born in the 8th to 17th centuries

Old Shirburnians born in the 18th century

Old Shirburnians born in the 19th century

Old Shirburnians born in the 20th century

What follows is a selection of more recent notable Old Shirburnians:

See also: List of Old Shirburnians
  • Academia

Notable Old Shirburnians in academia include mathematician, cryptanalyst and father of Artificial Intelligence and the first modern computer Alan Turing, Headmaster of Eton College, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University Michael McCrum, Master of Balliol College and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Sir Colin Lucas, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge Sir Derman Christopherson, literary scholar Sir Malcolm Pasley Bt, historian The Right Honourable The Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, chemist, Curator of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford and Director of the Science Museum Sherwood Taylor, Provost of Worcester College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Francis John Lys, historian and aster of Peterhouse College, Cambridge Harold Temperley, neurologist John Newsom-Davis, prehistorian and archeologist Richard Atkinson, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and author Timothy Garton Ash.

  • The Armed Forces

Notable Old Shirburnians in the military include Commander in Chief Naval Home Command Admiral Sir Horace Law, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Admiral Sir James Perowne, Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, commander of 6th Airlanding Brigade during the Rhine Crossing Brigadier Hugh Bellamy, World War One flying ace Captain Keith Muspratt, Battle of Britain flying ace Flight Lieutenant Carl Raymond Davis, Commander in Chief India, Governor of Gibraltar General Sir Charles Monro, Bt, Master-General of the Ordnance General Sir Jeremy Blacker, Commander in Chief Land Command General Sir John Wilsey, Commander in Chief Land Command and Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan General Sir Nicholas Parker, developer of machine gun tactics and Conservative MP Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Applin, CEO of Aegis Defence Services Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Spicer, Director General of the European Union Military Staff in the Council of the European Union, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Lieutenant General David Leakey, Commandant General Royal Marines Lieutenant General Sir Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines Lieutenant General Sir Steuart Pringle, Bt, Commander of Royal Marines in the Falklands War Major General Julian Thompson, overall British Commander in the Gulf War Major General Patrick Cordingley, Major-General Commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District, Major General Sir Iain Mackay-Dick, Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong Major General Sir Roy Redgrave, and Deputy Commander Operation Inherent Resolve Major General Rupert Jones.

  • Diplomatic Service

Notable Old Shirburnians in diplomacy include Sir Alan Campbell, UK High Commissioner to Australia Sir Brian Barder, British High Commissioner in Malaya Sir Donald MacGillivray, colonial administrator Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sir John Weston, UK Ambassador to Turkey and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man Sir Timothy Daunt, ambassador to Thailand, Austria and Brazil Sir Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger, diplomat, philanthropist and explorer Hugh Carless, and Governor-General of New Zealand The Right Honourable Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe.

  • Entertainment and Arts

Notable Old Shirburnian actors, musicians and directors include Jeremy Irons, Hugh Bonneville, James Purefoy, John Le Mesurier, Charles Collingwood, film, theatre, television and opera director Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre, film director Sir Gerald Grove Bt, Jon Pertwee, Charlie Cox, Lance Percival, lead singer of rock band Coldplay Chris Martin and creative director and manager of Coldplay Philip Harvey.

  • Intelligence Service

Notable Old Shirburnians in intelligence include two former Heads of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Sir Christopher Curwen, and Sir David Spedding.

  • The Law

Notable Old Shirburnians in the law include High Court Judge Sir Antony James Cobham Edwards-Stuart, Senator of the College of Justice and Principal Commercial Judge in the Court of Session in Scotland The Right Honourable Lord Glennie, high court judge in colonial India and prolific author Charles Augustus Kincaid, Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord Advocate William Milligan, Lord Milligan, and solicitor and author Sir Dermot Turing Bt.

  • Media

Old Shirburnians in the media include TV journalist and ITV News Political Editor Tom Bradby, TV journalist and Sky News Defence Correspondent Alistair Bunkall, journalist Nigel Dempster, TV journalist and BBC News news presenter Simon McCoy, BBC producer and creator of panel games including Just a Minute, Many a Slip. and Twenty Questions Ian Messiter, journalist and film critic for The New Yorker magazine Anthony Lane, and TV, radio and print journalist, and BBC News Central Europe Correspondent Nick Thorpe.

  • Politics

Notable Old Shirburnians in politics include Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford, Education Minister Sir Christopher Chataway, Michael Marsham, 7th Earl of Romney, William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, The Right Honourable The Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, Thomas Buchanan, Robert Key, The Right Honourable The Lord Tyler, Liberal Party politician John Pardoe, Conservative Party politician Denzil Kingston Freeth, Liberal Party politician Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane, writer, farmer and father of Boris Johnson Stanley Johnson, Liberal Democrat politician Andrew Duff, and journalist, author and political commentator Peter Oborne.

  • Writers

Old Shirburnians who have been writers and poets include, novelist Alec Waugh elder brother of Evelyn Waugh, their father author, literary critic, and publisher Arthur Waugh, Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, novelist David Cornwell (a.k.a. John le Carré), John Cowper Powys, Jon Stock, literary scholar Sir Malcolm Pasley Bt, Robert McCrum, Tim Heald, novelist Roger Norman, journalist, historian and biographer Brian Moynahan, and Warren Chetham-Strode.

  • Overseas

Old Shirburnians who have come from overseas include Emir of Qatar His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Sherborne International College), king of Swaziland King Mswati III (Sherborne International College), and Regent and Crown Prince of Pahang, Malaysia Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim.

Victoria Cross holders
The Victoria Cross (VC)

Five Old Shirburnians have been awarded the Victoria Cross, to whom a memorial plaque was commissioned, the unveiling of which took place in the School Chapel on 19 September 2004.[42]

  • Rear Admiral Henry James Raby VC CB.
    VC won in the Crimean War, when he was a Lieutenant in the Naval Brigade. Raby was the first man to actually receive the medal, with Queen Victoria pinning it onto him in the first investiture.
  • Brigadier General Sir Arthur George Hammond VC, KCB DSO
    VC won in the Second Afghan War, when he was a Captain in the Bengal Staff Corps, Indian Army
  • Major General Charles Edward Hudson VC, CB, DSO & Bar MC
    VC won in the First World War, when he was a Temporary Lieutenant Colonel in the Sherwood Foresters
  • Major Edward Bamford VC, DSO,
    VC won in the First World War, when he was a Captain in the Royal Marine Light Infantry
  • Captain John Hollington Grayburn VC,
    VC granted posthumously and he was gazetted Captain; won in the Second World War, as a Lieutenant in the Parachute Regiment

See also
  • Sherborne School For Girls
  • List of Victoria Crosses by School
  • Sherborne Bone

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