Amesbury School
| Motto | Nitere ut Vincas |
|---|---|
| Established | 1870 |
| Type | Independent school Day and boarding school Co-educational |
| Headmaster | Nigel Taylor |
| Founder | Revd. Edmund Fowle |
| Location |
Hazel Grove Hindhead Surrey GU26 6BL England Coordinates: 51°06′03″N 0°44′34″W / 51.1008°N 0.74276°W |
| Local authority | Surrey |
| DfE URN | 125346 |
| Students | 325 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 2–13 |
| Website | www |
Amesbury School is the only co-educational independent prep school in the Hindhead/Haslemere area educating pupils between the ages of 2 to 13. It is located in Surrey, England. Founded in 1870, Amesbury is the oldest preparatory school in the Farnham/Hindhead/Haslemere area. The main building was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and stands on a 34-acre (140,000 m2) estate in the heart of the Surrey countryside. The current Headmaster is Nigel Taylor.
The school is limited in size by Waverley Borough Council to 325 pupils.
The Good Schools Guide describes Amesbury as "a forward thinking yet, in many ways, traditional prep that manages to combine a purposeful approach with a relaxed atmosphere".
The Reverend Edmund Fowle, the son of the vicar of Amesbury, Wiltshire – Rev. Fulwar William Fowle – founded his school in 1870 in Redhill in Surrey, as Amesbury House. It moved to Reigate a year later and then, in 1876, it moved again, this time to a seven-acre site in Bickley, Kent. All of these moves were due to growing pupil numbers.
In 1887 Amesbury House was sold to E. H. Moore who ran it in partnership with E. A. Thompson until 1889 when the latter migrated to South Africa. Continuing success entailed another move and Bickley House was bought in 1902. At this point the school's name changed to that which it bears today. Moore died a year later and in The Old Amesburians Club instituted a prize in his memory which is still awarded today.
There was another move of location at the end of 1917, to Hindhead, under the headmastership of E. Cotgreave Brown. The reason on this occasion was to be further away from the dangers of London in war-time and to benefit from the healthy atmosphere of a rural location. It also became full boarding at this time.
The main school building had been designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1903. The building is today classified as a Grade 2* structure as it was the earliest design completed by Lutyens in the Wren style. Of particular interest are the strainer arches in the upstairs passage and the small windows on the eastern western face of the building, small because Lutyens believed that a room should contain pools of light rather than overall brightness.
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