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Giggleswick School
Giggleswick School is a public school (a fee-charging independent boarding and day school) in Giggleswick, near Settle in North Yorkshire, England. It originated as a chantry school whose existence is documented by 1499, and was granted a royal charter by Edward VI in 1553, making it one of the older endowed schools in England. It occupies a hillside site above the village and is coeducational, educating about 460 pupils aged 2 to 18.
For much of its history the school sent a steady stream of pupils to Christ's College, Cambridge. Its alumni include the theologian William Paley, the nonconformist educator Richard Frankland, the Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels, and the television presenter Richard Whiteley. The school's grade II* listed domed chapel, given by the local landowner Walter Morrison and designed by T. G. Jackson, is a noted architectural landmark.
The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. In 2023 it was rated "excellent" in all areas by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. Two of its masters made the first recorded round of the Yorkshire Three Peaks in 1887, and its pupils have helped operate the manual scoreboards at The Open Championship golf tournament since 1987.
Giggleswick School began as a chantry school and, unusually among English grammar schools, existed before it was endowed. Its founder was James Carr, chantry priest of the Rood Chantry at the parish church of St Alkelda, whose presence in the parish is documented from 1499. Carr took boarders and taught alongside his chantry duties, and the educational historian A. F. Leach regarded the school as the only recorded example of a "private adventure school" of its kind. On 12 November 1507 the Prior and Convent of Durham leased Carr half an acre of land near the churchyard, on which he undertook to build and maintain "one gramer scole" at his own expense. The schoolhouse was completed in 1512, a date recorded by a Latin inscription later preserved in the school. Carr died in 1518, having endowed the chantry with land, and the chantry priests carried on his teaching.
When the chantries were dissolved under Edward VI, the school survived: the founder's nephew Richard Carr, described by the commissioners of 1548 as "well learned", was kept on as schoolmaster by a crown stipend. On 26 May 1553, at the petition of the vicar John Nowell, Henry Tennant and other inhabitants, Edward VI granted the school a royal charter and endowed it with property formerly belonging to the dissolved St Andrew's College, Acaster. The charter named it the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth of Giggleswick and provided for one headmaster and one usher. "Free" denoted exemption from fees rather than freedom from ecclesiastical control. The first surviving statutes, drawn up at the instance of the vicar Christopher Shute and confirmed by the Archbishop of York in 1592, vested government in eight local governors, required instruction in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and set out the duties of master, usher and scholars.
A series of early seventeenth-century bequests — by William Clapham, Henry Tennant and, in 1616, Richard Carr — endowed scholarships and fellowships at Christ's College, Cambridge for boys from the school. For about a century and a half Giggleswick sent a steady stream of pupils to Christ's, most of whom entered the Church. Among them was Richard Frankland, later founder of the Rathmell Academy, the earliest dissenting academy in the north of England.
The mastership passed in 1744 to William Paley of Langcliffe, who held it until his death in 1799 while also serving as vicar of Helpston. His son, the theologian William Paley, was educated at the school before going up to Christ's College. Rising estate revenues allowed the staff to be enlarged and new statutes obtained in 1795; the medieval schoolhouse was demolished and a second school built on the site in 1790.
Rowland Ingram was headmaster from 1799 to 1844, the Charity Commissioners recording 63 boys in 1825. Under his successor George Ash Butterton (1845–1858) the governors adopted a new scheme of management and the school was rebuilt from its foundations in 1851.
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Giggleswick School
Giggleswick School is a public school (a fee-charging independent boarding and day school) in Giggleswick, near Settle in North Yorkshire, England. It originated as a chantry school whose existence is documented by 1499, and was granted a royal charter by Edward VI in 1553, making it one of the older endowed schools in England. It occupies a hillside site above the village and is coeducational, educating about 460 pupils aged 2 to 18.
For much of its history the school sent a steady stream of pupils to Christ's College, Cambridge. Its alumni include the theologian William Paley, the nonconformist educator Richard Frankland, the Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels, and the television presenter Richard Whiteley. The school's grade II* listed domed chapel, given by the local landowner Walter Morrison and designed by T. G. Jackson, is a noted architectural landmark.
The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. In 2023 it was rated "excellent" in all areas by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. Two of its masters made the first recorded round of the Yorkshire Three Peaks in 1887, and its pupils have helped operate the manual scoreboards at The Open Championship golf tournament since 1987.
Giggleswick School began as a chantry school and, unusually among English grammar schools, existed before it was endowed. Its founder was James Carr, chantry priest of the Rood Chantry at the parish church of St Alkelda, whose presence in the parish is documented from 1499. Carr took boarders and taught alongside his chantry duties, and the educational historian A. F. Leach regarded the school as the only recorded example of a "private adventure school" of its kind. On 12 November 1507 the Prior and Convent of Durham leased Carr half an acre of land near the churchyard, on which he undertook to build and maintain "one gramer scole" at his own expense. The schoolhouse was completed in 1512, a date recorded by a Latin inscription later preserved in the school. Carr died in 1518, having endowed the chantry with land, and the chantry priests carried on his teaching.
When the chantries were dissolved under Edward VI, the school survived: the founder's nephew Richard Carr, described by the commissioners of 1548 as "well learned", was kept on as schoolmaster by a crown stipend. On 26 May 1553, at the petition of the vicar John Nowell, Henry Tennant and other inhabitants, Edward VI granted the school a royal charter and endowed it with property formerly belonging to the dissolved St Andrew's College, Acaster. The charter named it the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth of Giggleswick and provided for one headmaster and one usher. "Free" denoted exemption from fees rather than freedom from ecclesiastical control. The first surviving statutes, drawn up at the instance of the vicar Christopher Shute and confirmed by the Archbishop of York in 1592, vested government in eight local governors, required instruction in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and set out the duties of master, usher and scholars.
A series of early seventeenth-century bequests — by William Clapham, Henry Tennant and, in 1616, Richard Carr — endowed scholarships and fellowships at Christ's College, Cambridge for boys from the school. For about a century and a half Giggleswick sent a steady stream of pupils to Christ's, most of whom entered the Church. Among them was Richard Frankland, later founder of the Rathmell Academy, the earliest dissenting academy in the north of England.
The mastership passed in 1744 to William Paley of Langcliffe, who held it until his death in 1799 while also serving as vicar of Helpston. His son, the theologian William Paley, was educated at the school before going up to Christ's College. Rising estate revenues allowed the staff to be enlarged and new statutes obtained in 1795; the medieval schoolhouse was demolished and a second school built on the site in 1790.
Rowland Ingram was headmaster from 1799 to 1844, the Charity Commissioners recording 63 boys in 1825. Under his successor George Ash Butterton (1845–1858) the governors adopted a new scheme of management and the school was rebuilt from its foundations in 1851.
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