Bishop's Stortford College
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| Established | 1868 |
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| Type | Independent Day & Boarding school |
| Headmaster | Jeremy Gladwin |
| Location |
10 Maze Green Road Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 2PJ United Kingdom |
| Local authority | Hertfordshire |
| Students | 1146 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 4–18 |
| Houses | 9 (Senior) 4 (Junior) |
| Former pupils | Old Stortfordians |
| Website | bishopsstortfordcollege |
Bishop's Stortford College is a leading independent, co-educational day and boarding school for pupils from the ages of four to eighteen, with a 130-acre (0.53 km2) campus located on the edge of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. As an "all-through" school it is a member of both the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools.
Bishop's Stortford College was founded in 1868 by a group of prominent Nonconformists in East Anglia who wanted to establish a public school
They approached the Bishop's Stortford Collegiate School, a non-sectarian school founded in 1850, and acquired the school buildings, naming the new educational establishment as the Nonconformist Grammar School.
Two grammar schools in the town proved confusing so in 1901 the name was changed to the Bishop’s Stortford College and the association became instead a board of governors with nominees from the Baptist, Congregational and Presbyterian churches on the panel.
The school’s first headmaster was the Reverend Richard Alliott and its first pupils were 40 in number. Rev Alliott led the school for 31 years and his successor Francis Young was also in post for 31 years.
It is notable that the school only had five head teachers during its first one hundred years:
then:
During its early years, the school built up a strong reputation in the sports field and swimming, and was one of the first schools in the country to have its own indoor heated pool, built in 1895. The Bishop's Stortford College Centenary Chronicle records:
Under the headmastership of Francis Young, the school continued to grow in both size and reputation. Young commissioned many of the red brick school buildings designed in the arts and craft style by Herbert Ibberson (an Old Stortfordian with an architectural practice in Hunstanton), acquired the sports fields which occupy 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land and, in 1902, took over an existing school for boys aged 7 to 13 years. The life of the Bishop's Stortford College Preparatory School began with just eight day pupils and eight boarders.
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