King Edward's School, Bath
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| Motto |
Dieu et mon droit (To serve, not to be served) |
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| Established | 1552 |
| Type | Independent school |
| Headmaster | Martin Boden |
| Chairman of the Governors | Winifred Thomson |
| Founder | King Edward VI |
| Location |
North Road Bath Somerset BA2 6HU England Coordinates: 51°23′11″N 2°20′37″W / 51.3863°N 2.3436°W |
| DfE URN | 109374 Tables |
| Staff | 70–90 |
| Students | 976 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Colours | Maroon and navy blue |
| Publication | The Edwardian |
| Former pupils | Old Edwardians |
| Website | www |
Dieu et mon droit
(God and my right)
King Edward's School (KES), Bath, Somerset, England is an independent school providing education for 950 pupils aged 3 to 18. The school is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The school was established in the 16th century in a city centre site. In the 1960s it moved to the outskirts onto a multi building site. In addition to the academic curriculum the schools includes drama, music, sport and a combined cadet force.
The school was founded in 1552 under laws set out in the Charities Act of 1545, which had been passed by Henry VIII to use funds from the dissolution of the monasteries to replace monastic grammar schools such as that run by Bath Abbey. The Mayor of Bath and one of the members of parliament for Bath, Edward Ludwell, petitioned Edward VI for land previously owned by the priory, to establish the school, initially in Frog Lane, and support ten poor people, which also prevented the crown from selling off the land previously held by the priory. In 1580s the school moved to a disused church building by the north gate of the city. The city corporation misappropriated the considerable funds form the land granted under Letters Patent, failing to maintain or improve the school until it was exposed in the Court of Chancery in 1734. Around 1750 a new building was erected for the school in Broad Street.
The secondary school relocated from its site at Broad Street in central Bath in the 1960s to a 14-acre (57,000 m2) site at North Road in the southeastern edge of the city, previously occupied by St Christopher's Preparatory School. The junior school (7- to 11-year-olds) remained on the Broad Street site until the summer of 1990 when it transferred to a new building in the North Road school grounds. The old Broad Street site, which was built in 1754 by Thomas Jelly and is a Grade II* Listed building, remains empty. In 1997 an application to turn the building into a public house was refused. A scheme for use as a hotel has also been withdrawn. The building remains on the Heritage at Risk Register but work to repair the roof has reduced the risk to the property.
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