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Hardenhuish School
Hardenhuish School (formerly The Chippenham School, Chippenham Grammar School and Chippenham Girls' High School) is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, for students aged 11 to 18. Together with Abbeyfield School and Sheldon School, it is one of three secondary schools in the town with academy status. The school's headteacher is Lisa Percy.
The school is in the Hardenhuish area in the north-west of Chippenham. Its main building is Hardenhuish House, a large Grade II* listed late-18th-century house. Sheldon School lies to the south, in the southern part of the former grounds of the house.
In 854AD, documents record a settlement known as Hardenhuish on the north-west side of Chippenham; the name probably derives from the family landholding of one Herejeard. In 1066, the Domesday survey recorded the tenant of Hardenehus as Arnulf, who held it before this date. The medieval manor house and church were on the flat land which now forms playing fields shared between Hardenhuish and Sheldon schools.
In 1759, Joseph Colborne (a member of the tallow chandlers' guild and part of a prominent local medical family) purchased the house and estate from descendants of the Hawkins family, who had taken the manor house on from the Dunch family in 1622. Eventually he selected a new site for a fine Georgian house, Hardenhuish House, on higher ground to the north, built in 1773 to 1774. The previous house was demolished and the grounds were landscaped. Joseph Colborne of Hardenhuish was appointed Sheriff of Wiltshire for the year 1777.
In 1776, Joseph Colborne decided that a new church should be erected on higher ground to the west of his new Georgian house. Dedicated to Saint Nicholas, it was designed by the famous Bath architect John Wood and is supposed to contain recycled material from the earlier church. It was completed in 1779. Joseph Colborne's sister, Anne – who had married London merchant Abraham Craiesteyn – had been buried at the earlier church in 1764, and her remains were moved to the new church.
The ruins of a raised stone summer house in Hardenhuish wood and the cobbled flooring of a stable are still visible, as well as a stone wall, formerly a garden store, on the hill behind the property. These features, alongside the neo-classical architecture of the house, act as an educational resource used by the school's history department.
Joseph Colborne died in 1781. The ownership of Hardenhuish passed to his daughter Anne, who was married to John Hawkins of Kelston, near Bath. Their second son, George Hawkins, was next to inherit Hardenhuish.
In 1822, Thomas Clutterbuck, who had land and business interests in both Gloucestershire and Bradford on Avon, bought the Hardenhuish estate from George Hawkins.
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Hardenhuish School
Hardenhuish School (formerly The Chippenham School, Chippenham Grammar School and Chippenham Girls' High School) is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, for students aged 11 to 18. Together with Abbeyfield School and Sheldon School, it is one of three secondary schools in the town with academy status. The school's headteacher is Lisa Percy.
The school is in the Hardenhuish area in the north-west of Chippenham. Its main building is Hardenhuish House, a large Grade II* listed late-18th-century house. Sheldon School lies to the south, in the southern part of the former grounds of the house.
In 854AD, documents record a settlement known as Hardenhuish on the north-west side of Chippenham; the name probably derives from the family landholding of one Herejeard. In 1066, the Domesday survey recorded the tenant of Hardenehus as Arnulf, who held it before this date. The medieval manor house and church were on the flat land which now forms playing fields shared between Hardenhuish and Sheldon schools.
In 1759, Joseph Colborne (a member of the tallow chandlers' guild and part of a prominent local medical family) purchased the house and estate from descendants of the Hawkins family, who had taken the manor house on from the Dunch family in 1622. Eventually he selected a new site for a fine Georgian house, Hardenhuish House, on higher ground to the north, built in 1773 to 1774. The previous house was demolished and the grounds were landscaped. Joseph Colborne of Hardenhuish was appointed Sheriff of Wiltshire for the year 1777.
In 1776, Joseph Colborne decided that a new church should be erected on higher ground to the west of his new Georgian house. Dedicated to Saint Nicholas, it was designed by the famous Bath architect John Wood and is supposed to contain recycled material from the earlier church. It was completed in 1779. Joseph Colborne's sister, Anne – who had married London merchant Abraham Craiesteyn – had been buried at the earlier church in 1764, and her remains were moved to the new church.
The ruins of a raised stone summer house in Hardenhuish wood and the cobbled flooring of a stable are still visible, as well as a stone wall, formerly a garden store, on the hill behind the property. These features, alongside the neo-classical architecture of the house, act as an educational resource used by the school's history department.
Joseph Colborne died in 1781. The ownership of Hardenhuish passed to his daughter Anne, who was married to John Hawkins of Kelston, near Bath. Their second son, George Hawkins, was next to inherit Hardenhuish.
In 1822, Thomas Clutterbuck, who had land and business interests in both Gloucestershire and Bradford on Avon, bought the Hardenhuish estate from George Hawkins.