Addey and Stanhope School
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| Motto |
A Deo et Rege ("From God and the King") |
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| Established | 1894 |
| Type | Voluntary-aided |
| Headmistress | Jan Shapiro |
| Chairman of Governors | Cliff Hardcastle |
| Founder | John Addey and George Stanhope |
| Location |
London, SE14 6TJ, England |
| Local authority | Lewisham |
| DfE URN | 100748 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | ~100 |
| Students | 596 (2011) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Addey Stanhope Pepys Evelyn |
| Colours | |
| Former pupils | Old Addeyans |
| Website | Addey and Stanhope |
Addey and Stanhope School is a voluntary-aided, co-educational secondary school, located in Lewisham, London, England. It is a former grammar school, with origins dating to 1606. The headmistress is currently Miss Jan Shapiro.
The School's origins date to 1606 when John Addey (1550–1606), Master shipwright at Deptford Dockyard, having made his fortune in shipbuilding, left £150 to help the poor of Deptford; this money was then invested in land and the rent from that land was to be given away as charity. This amounted to 40 shillings each, per annum given to 100 parishioners of Deptford. However, in 1820 the trustees felt that this type of poor relief encouraged fecklessness and instead decided to found the Addey School in 1821 on Church Street, Deptford. 'A Topographical Dictionary of England' (1848) it is explained that the Addey School "by direction of the court of chancery, erected a spacious building containing two large schoolrooms, with houses for the master and mistress; the school is wholly supported by the endowment, from which also 48 aged persons are paid £2 each annually.". Later in 1862 the School was enlarged. To commemorate Addey's charity and the help given to the poor of Deptford, a plaque was erected in St Nicholas Church, Deptford in 1862, following is quoted the inscription on the tablet:
The School's second founder Dean George Stanhope (1660–1728) the vicar of St Nicholas, Deptford, and St Mary’s, Lewisham, and who later rose to be Dean of Canterbury, and friend of Jonathan Swift, founded the Stanhope School in 1715. Dr Stanhope had previously given £150 for the establishment of a girls school in Lewisham in 1699. Originally the school educated fifty deprived children of Deptford, twenty five girls and twenty five boys, in purely practical skills such as needlework and carpentry. According to the National Archives, the school was enlarged in 1812, and in 1874, with the charity changing its name to the Stanhope Foundation. Two statues of a girl and a boy pupil once adorned the front of the Stanhope School, the statue of the girl now resides in the entrance to the main Addey and Stanhope school building. The Stanhope School was financed partly out of the sale of sermons, donations and public subscriptions. Each subscriber was entitled to put one child into the school. Additionally, several benefactions were left in the wills of a number of Deptford residents who made provision for the local poor. The School, as it was a charity school was often known as the Bluecoat School, Daniel Lysons (1796) explains Dr Stanhope's biography:
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