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Repton School
Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was then established at the Repton Priory. For its first 400 years, the school accepted only boys; girls were admitted from the 1970s, and the school was fully co-educational by the 1990s.
Notable alumni, also known as "Old Reptonians", include C. B. Fry, Harold Abrahams, Christopher Isherwood, Jeremy Clarkson, Andy Wilman, Roald Dahl, Adrian Newey and Archbishop Lord Ramsey of Canterbury.
The school was founded by a 1557 legacy in the will of Sir John Port of Etwall, leaving funds for a grammar school at Etwall or Repton, conditional on the students praying daily for the souls of his family:
"And I will that the Scollers of the said Scoole everye mornynge at their comynge to the said Scoole, and also at the after nowne at and upon their departinge from the Schole to pray for my parentes soules, my soule..." – The Will of Sir John Port, 6th June 1557
Through this private endowment, Repton School was set up as a charity, with early boarding pupils coming from Repton and the neighbouring villages.
The school was founded within the remains of Repton Priory, which were granted for the school in 1559 by Gilbert Thacker. The religious site had been founded in the 12th-century by the Augustinian order and had been in existence until it was dissolved in 1538 by Henry VIII. After dissolution, the Thacker family had lived at the priory until 1553. Gilbert Thacker destroyed the church, almost entirely in a day, during the time of Queen Mary fearing the priory would be recommissioned as part of the Counter-Reformation.
Only parts of the original buildings remained when the school was established. These comprised: the footings of areas of the priory remain in some areas, uncovered during construction work in 1922; the bases of a cluster of columns of the former chancel and chapels; fragments of an arch belonging to the former pulpitum, moved to their current position in 1906; fragments of the door surrounds of both the chapter house and warming room. and largest surviving portion of the priory known as "Prior Overton's Tower", which is post-1437; largely altered, it has been incorporated into a 19th-century building.
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Repton School
Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was then established at the Repton Priory. For its first 400 years, the school accepted only boys; girls were admitted from the 1970s, and the school was fully co-educational by the 1990s.
Notable alumni, also known as "Old Reptonians", include C. B. Fry, Harold Abrahams, Christopher Isherwood, Jeremy Clarkson, Andy Wilman, Roald Dahl, Adrian Newey and Archbishop Lord Ramsey of Canterbury.
The school was founded by a 1557 legacy in the will of Sir John Port of Etwall, leaving funds for a grammar school at Etwall or Repton, conditional on the students praying daily for the souls of his family:
"And I will that the Scollers of the said Scoole everye mornynge at their comynge to the said Scoole, and also at the after nowne at and upon their departinge from the Schole to pray for my parentes soules, my soule..." – The Will of Sir John Port, 6th June 1557
Through this private endowment, Repton School was set up as a charity, with early boarding pupils coming from Repton and the neighbouring villages.
The school was founded within the remains of Repton Priory, which were granted for the school in 1559 by Gilbert Thacker. The religious site had been founded in the 12th-century by the Augustinian order and had been in existence until it was dissolved in 1538 by Henry VIII. After dissolution, the Thacker family had lived at the priory until 1553. Gilbert Thacker destroyed the church, almost entirely in a day, during the time of Queen Mary fearing the priory would be recommissioned as part of the Counter-Reformation.
Only parts of the original buildings remained when the school was established. These comprised: the footings of areas of the priory remain in some areas, uncovered during construction work in 1922; the bases of a cluster of columns of the former chancel and chapels; fragments of an arch belonging to the former pulpitum, moved to their current position in 1906; fragments of the door surrounds of both the chapter house and warming room. and largest surviving portion of the priory known as "Prior Overton's Tower", which is post-1437; largely altered, it has been incorporated into a 19th-century building.