Bourne Grammar School
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| Motto |
Vigila et Ora (Watch and pray) |
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| Established | 1330 |
| Type |
Grammar school; Academy |
| Religion | Christian; none |
| Headmaster[update] | Jonathan P J Maddox |
| Chairman Of The Governors[update] | Mr I Fytche |
| Founder | Lincoln Cathedral |
| Location |
South Road Bourne Lincolnshire PE10 9JE England 52°45′45″N 0°22′24″W / 52.76246°N 0.37334°WCoordinates: 52°45′45″N 0°22′24″W / 52.76246°N 0.37334°W |
| DfE number | 925/4501 |
| DfE URN | 137793 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Staff | 150 |
| Students | 1115 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Behn, Meitner, Tinbergen, Rorschach |
| Colours | Red and Gold |
| Publication | BGS Bulletin |
| Former pupils | Old Brunnians |
| School Song | Christian, seek not yet repose |
| Re-Endowed | 1636 |
| Website | www |
Bourne Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school with academy status on South Road (A15), in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. The school was founded in 1330. It previously held Arts College Status, and was awarded Academy status in January 2012, although it retains its former name.
The original foundation dates from no later than 1330, when a new headmaster was admitted to the school by the Lincoln Cathedral Chapter. It was re-endowed in 1636 by a bequest of William Trollope, who had built the old school building in 1626. That building still exists in the Abbey Churchyard, although it was re-roofed and partially rebuilt in 1736 and the school moved to its present site in July 1921.
In its original form, it appears to have been operated by the regular canons of Bourne Abbey but that was dissolved in 1536. The school continued but the nature of its management structure in this period is not wholly clear. In 1626, William Trollope provided it with a new building and in 1636, on his death, he endowed it as the 'Free Grammar School of King Charles in the Town of Bourne in the County of Lincoln, of the foundation of William Trollope, gentleman', with £30 per year to pay the teacher's salary.
In 1736, the building was re-roofed and partially rebuilt. With maintenance and the installation of better heating, it continued until 1904 but railways had made better-equipped schools accessible and school faded away. Efforts were made to reinstate it and once the First World War was over, in 1920, it opened in the building of the former National School, in North Street. In 1921, once its longer-term premises in South Road were usable, it moved there. At this stage, it was run by trustees under the name of the 'Harrington and Trollope Secondary School', after Robert Harrington and William Trollope, two local seventeenth-century philanthropists whose bequests had been made for the poor and the school of Bourne respectively. Kesteven County Council topped up the funds required with an annual grant and by paying for free places at the school for pupils who qualified for assistance.
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