Stamford School
| Motto | Christ Me Spede |
|---|---|
| Established | 1532 |
| Type |
Public school Independent day and boarding |
| Headmaster | Nick Gallop |
| Principal of SES | Will Phelan |
| Founder | William Radcliffe |
| Location |
St Paul's Street Stamford Lincolnshire PE9 2BQ England Coordinates: 52°39′19″N 0°28′18″W / 52.65520°N 0.47166°W |
| DfE number | 925/6027 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Ancaster, Brazenose, Exeter, Radcliffe. Boarding – Byard, Browne |
| Colours |
Navy, maroon |
| Publication | The Stamfordian |
| Former pupils | Old Stamfordians |
| Website | Stamford School |
Navy, maroon
Stamford School is an English independent school for boys in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. It has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920. With the girls-only Stamford High School and the coeducational Stamford Junior School, it is part of the Stamford Endowed Schools (SES).
The school was founded in 1532 by a local merchant and alderman, William Radcliffe, who had been encouraged when younger by Lady Margaret Beaufort, (d.1509) mother of Henry VII, though there is evidence to suggest that a school existed from the beginning of the fourteenth century. Founded as a chantry school, it fell foul of the Protestant reformers and was only saved from destruction under the Chantries Act of Edward VI by the personal intervention of Sir William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) who worked in the service of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and who secured a specific Act of Parliament in 1548 ensuring its survival. Apart from the chantries of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, only those of Eton College, Winchester College, Berkhamsted, St Albans and Stamford schools survived.
Teaching is believed to have begun in the Corpus Christi chapel of Stamford's twelfth century church of St Mary, but by 1566 was taking place in the remaining portion of the redundant St Paul's Church, originally built no later than 1152. This building continued in use as a school room until the early twentieth century when it was reclaimed and extended and, in 1930, returned to use as a chapel. About thirty years later an interesting nineteenth century Gray and Davison pipe organ was installed although this was removed in the 1990s and replaced with an electronic substitute. Over its history the school has built or absorbed seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, besides the site of a further demolished medieval church (Holy Trinity/St Stephen's) and remains of the hall of Brasenose College built by the secessionists from the University of Oxford in the fourteenth century. Brasenose College bought the house in 1890 to recover the original medieval Brazenose Knocker.
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