Dauntsey's School
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Dauntsey's School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the village of West Lavington
, Wiltshire
, England
. The School was founded in 1542, in accordance with the will of William Dauntesey
, a master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers
.
in 2004 when they held the 'Backyard Jam'. Where the Osiris
BMX
team did a show there, though the park has since been bulldozed by the school to avoid law suits as the local residents took to using it without permission. The school also owns a large portion of land approximately 15 minutes' walk (or a mile's drive) from the main school. The land has an old Manor
building on it, which is used as a lower school boarding house, a wood, a golf course, a defunct swimming pool and an athletics track and now also a cricket pitch set in the walled garden.
All classes have pupils from all houses.
The points are awarded from inter-house events throughout the academic year. Such events include athletics, swimming, rugby, cricket, tennis, hockey, football, general knowledge quiz, basketball, water polo,music and a minor sports festival which includes badminton, squash, skittles, chess and table tennis.
, the famous gaff rigged pilot cutter, is sailed exclusively by Dauntsey pupils throughout the year. In summer 2000 Dauntsey crews took part in the The Tall Ships' Race 2000, which took her from Southampton to Hull, Brixton, Sunderland, Newcatle-Under-Lyme, Boston (Lincs) and Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, Jolie Brise
was declared the overall winner of this prestigious international race and so the crew enjoyed a hearty night out in the district. She also won The Tall Ships' Races
2002, which took her from Alicante to Malaga. Last summer Jolie Brise
cruised to the Azores; this summer Jolie Brise
circumnavigated Britain before sailing to Spain. In 2009 the Jolie Brise came second, in its class, of the Tall Ships Race, the final destination of which, was Belfast, where the ships were greeted, after a transatlantic race, by an estimated 400,000 people.
of Mercer
William Dauntesey
,
Dauntesey was himself from West Lavington, the son of John Dauntesey, and when he died in April 1542, he left money in his Will dated 10 March 1542 for the founding of the School. He gave the Mercers' Company lands in London
so that they could build a schoolhouse for a grammar school
at West Lavington and also support seven poor persons in an almshouse
, within the same charity
. The master of the school was to be appointed by the heir of Dauntesey's brother Ambrose Dauntesey, but the company was to have the power of dismissal. In 1868, a Schools Inquiry Commission noted that "By ancient custom, the owner of the Dauntesey estate at West Lavington, now Lord Churchill, appoints".
Three and a half centuries after the school's foundation in 1542 (above), the school moved to its current site at the north end of West Lavington, Wiltshire
. The new school buildings were designed by the architect C.E. Ponting
and in May 1895 the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain
officially opened them and inaugurated Dauntsey's Agricultural School.
In 1929 the school bought the Manor House estate which is now accommodation for lower school borders. In 1930, the school changed its name to Dauntsey's School although remained largely dedicated to an agriculture-based education. At that time it fulfilled the role that the County Agricultural Colleges fill today, the latter partly sponsored by the state. Since the level of the playing fields changed, the perceived statutory age for continuing education, the educational needs, changed as well. The intake of pupils in the 1930s was a very broad cross section of the Wiltshire farming community, from farm labourer's children to those of very well heeled Gentlemen farmers. It continued thus, with the addition of sons of commissioned officers in the armed forces
, until 1971.
In 1967, the 'Olive Block' opened, which is now Fitzmaurice House. 1970 saw the foundation of the sailing club, while, in 1971, the first ever girls were admitted. In 1972, the farm buildings were closed and the school became a primarily academic institution. In 1977, the school acquired Jolie Brise (above). The school continues a wide range of building and expansion projects to this day, including the recent building of Mercers' House and the new school library. More recent developments have included a new astroturf around the back of the school near the foot of strawberry hill
for hockey purposes, alongside this new development - there is also a new mini astro, for small training exercises, warm-ups https://www.zoominfo.com/people/Palmer_A._693673122.aspx. Currently the school is planning on developing new drama departments and a new cricket pavilion.
The school's affiliation with the Mercers Company
remains, and the Master Mercer is a regular guest of honour or speaker at school events. The company also helps with the financial support of students' individual ventures, including gap years
and sporting tours, where the company sees fit.
When the Mercers' School closed in 1959 it was decided, to extend membership to former pupils from other schools in the Mercers' Cluster. Membership is now open to pupils of the following schools; Abingdon School
, Dauntsey's School, Mercers' School
, St Paul's School, St Paul's Girls School and Thomas Telford School
, and the Colleges of Richard Collyer
and Peter Symonds
.
West Lavington, Wiltshire
West Lavington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.West Lavington is located on the A360 road between Devizes and Salisbury in Wiltshire, five miles south of Devizes. The village was originally known as Bishops' Lavington....
, Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The School was founded in 1542, in accordance with the will of William Dauntesey
William Dauntesey
Alderman William Dauntesey was a London merchant and Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.A merchant of the Staple at Calais he was the son of John Dauntesey of West Lavington in Wiltshire...
, a master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers
Worshipful Company of Mercers
The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in order of precedence. It is the first of the so-called "Great Twelve City Livery Companies". It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1394...
.
The school
The school was moved to its current site in the year 1895. The school occupies approximately 25 acres (101,171.5 m²) of land at the main school campus, though this was recently increased by the acquisition of a field behind the school. However, the school has yet to develop this land, and it remains a ploughed field with a bike park. The bike park featured in MBUKMBUK
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in 2004 when they held the 'Backyard Jam'. Where the Osiris
Osiris Shoes
Osiris Shoes is a skate shoe company that was founded in 1996 by Tony Chen, Tony Magnusson, Brian Reid, Doug Weston and Laura Kim. They created the company when they saw a void in the skateboard industry for pro designed and endorsed footwear. -History:...
BMX
BMX
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team did a show there, though the park has since been bulldozed by the school to avoid law suits as the local residents took to using it without permission. The school also owns a large portion of land approximately 15 minutes' walk (or a mile's drive) from the main school. The land has an old Manor
Manor house
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...
building on it, which is used as a lower school boarding house, a wood, a golf course, a defunct swimming pool and an athletics track and now also a cricket pitch set in the walled garden.
Houses
Most houses are named after former headmasters, the exceptions being Manor, Farmer, and Mercers (named after a building, a generous donor and the Worshipful Company respectively). All houses are on main school site, except Manor.Lower school houses
In lower school the day pupils' houses determine little more than where their locker is, and where they must be for registration. For lower school boarders, however, the Manor house is the only boarding house available, and therefore will be where they live, and eat.All classes have pupils from all houses.
| Day | Boarding |
| Forbes | Manor |
| Rendell | |
| Scott |
Upper school houses
In upper school, houses are not mixed, and the eight houses are divided equally among day, boarding, female and male pupils . A pupil's house is determined at random, although siblings tend to be placed in the same house. The boys' houses compete for the Strong Cup.| Day | Boarding | |
| Girls | King-Reynolds | Jeanne |
| Lambert | Evans | |
| Boys | Hemens | Mercers Worshipful Company of Mercers The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in order of precedence. It is the first of the so-called "Great Twelve City Livery Companies". It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1394... |
| Farmer | Fitzmaurice |
Strong Cup
Strong Cup is the annual point-system senior house competition for boys at Dauntsey's School, so Farmer, Fitzmaurice, Hemens and Mercers are the only houses that are involved. Farmer have won the cup more times than any other house and they are currently in possession of it (2011).The points are awarded from inter-house events throughout the academic year. Such events include athletics, swimming, rugby, cricket, tennis, hockey, football, general knowledge quiz, basketball, water polo,music and a minor sports festival which includes badminton, squash, skittles, chess and table tennis.
Jolie Brise
Jolie BriseJolie Brise
Jolie Brise is a gaff-rigged pilot cutter built and launched by the Albert Paumelle Yard in Le Havre in 1913 to a design by Alexandre Pâris. After a short career as a pilot boat, owing to steam replacing sail, she became a fishing boat.Bought by E. G...
, the famous gaff rigged pilot cutter, is sailed exclusively by Dauntsey pupils throughout the year. In summer 2000 Dauntsey crews took part in the The Tall Ships' Race 2000, which took her from Southampton to Hull, Brixton, Sunderland, Newcatle-Under-Lyme, Boston (Lincs) and Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, Jolie Brise
Jolie Brise
Jolie Brise is a gaff-rigged pilot cutter built and launched by the Albert Paumelle Yard in Le Havre in 1913 to a design by Alexandre Pâris. After a short career as a pilot boat, owing to steam replacing sail, she became a fishing boat.Bought by E. G...
was declared the overall winner of this prestigious international race and so the crew enjoyed a hearty night out in the district. She also won The Tall Ships' Races
The Tall Ships' Races
The Tall Ships' Races are races for sail training "tall ships" . The races are designed to encourage international friendship and training for young people in the art of sailing. The races are held annually in European waters and consists of two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles, and a...
2002, which took her from Alicante to Malaga. Last summer Jolie Brise
Jolie Brise
Jolie Brise is a gaff-rigged pilot cutter built and launched by the Albert Paumelle Yard in Le Havre in 1913 to a design by Alexandre Pâris. After a short career as a pilot boat, owing to steam replacing sail, she became a fishing boat.Bought by E. G...
cruised to the Azores; this summer Jolie Brise
Jolie Brise
Jolie Brise is a gaff-rigged pilot cutter built and launched by the Albert Paumelle Yard in Le Havre in 1913 to a design by Alexandre Pâris. After a short career as a pilot boat, owing to steam replacing sail, she became a fishing boat.Bought by E. G...
circumnavigated Britain before sailing to Spain. In 2009 the Jolie Brise came second, in its class, of the Tall Ships Race, the final destination of which, was Belfast, where the ships were greeted, after a transatlantic race, by an estimated 400,000 people.
History
The school was founded in accordance with the willWill (law)
A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...
of Mercer
Worshipful Company of Mercers
The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in order of precedence. It is the first of the so-called "Great Twelve City Livery Companies". It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1394...
William Dauntesey
William Dauntesey
Alderman William Dauntesey was a London merchant and Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.A merchant of the Staple at Calais he was the son of John Dauntesey of West Lavington in Wiltshire...
,
Dauntesey was himself from West Lavington, the son of John Dauntesey, and when he died in April 1542, he left money in his Will dated 10 March 1542 for the founding of the School. He gave the Mercers' Company lands in London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
so that they could build a schoolhouse for a grammar school
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
at West Lavington and also support seven poor persons in an almshouse
Almshouse
Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people to live in a particular community...
, within the same charity
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
. The master of the school was to be appointed by the heir of Dauntesey's brother Ambrose Dauntesey, but the company was to have the power of dismissal. In 1868, a Schools Inquiry Commission noted that "By ancient custom, the owner of the Dauntesey estate at West Lavington, now Lord Churchill, appoints".
Three and a half centuries after the school's foundation in 1542 (above), the school moved to its current site at the north end of West Lavington, Wiltshire
West Lavington, Wiltshire
West Lavington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.West Lavington is located on the A360 road between Devizes and Salisbury in Wiltshire, five miles south of Devizes. The village was originally known as Bishops' Lavington....
. The new school buildings were designed by the architect C.E. Ponting
Charles Ponting
Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.-Career:Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for Meux brewing family's estate from 1870 until 1888...
and in May 1895 the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended Oxford or Cambridge University....
officially opened them and inaugurated Dauntsey's Agricultural School.
In 1929 the school bought the Manor House estate which is now accommodation for lower school borders. In 1930, the school changed its name to Dauntsey's School although remained largely dedicated to an agriculture-based education. At that time it fulfilled the role that the County Agricultural Colleges fill today, the latter partly sponsored by the state. Since the level of the playing fields changed, the perceived statutory age for continuing education, the educational needs, changed as well. The intake of pupils in the 1930s was a very broad cross section of the Wiltshire farming community, from farm labourer's children to those of very well heeled Gentlemen farmers. It continued thus, with the addition of sons of commissioned officers in the armed forces
British Armed Forces
The British Armed Forces are the armed forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Also known as Her Majesty's Armed Forces and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, the British Armed Forces encompasses three professional uniformed services, the Royal Navy, the...
, until 1971.
In 1967, the 'Olive Block' opened, which is now Fitzmaurice House. 1970 saw the foundation of the sailing club, while, in 1971, the first ever girls were admitted. In 1972, the farm buildings were closed and the school became a primarily academic institution. In 1977, the school acquired Jolie Brise (above). The school continues a wide range of building and expansion projects to this day, including the recent building of Mercers' House and the new school library. More recent developments have included a new astroturf around the back of the school near the foot of strawberry hill
Strawberry Hill
Strawberry Hill may refer to:*Strawberry Hill, Cambridge, Massachusetts*Strawberry Hill *Strawberry Hill *Strawberry Hill, London, England...
for hockey purposes, alongside this new development - there is also a new mini astro, for small training exercises, warm-ups https://www.zoominfo.com/people/Palmer_A._693673122.aspx. Currently the school is planning on developing new drama departments and a new cricket pavilion.
The school's affiliation with the Mercers Company
Worshipful Company of Mercers
The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in order of precedence. It is the first of the so-called "Great Twelve City Livery Companies". It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1394...
remains, and the Master Mercer is a regular guest of honour or speaker at school events. The company also helps with the financial support of students' individual ventures, including gap years
Gap year
An expression or phrase that is associated with taking time out to travel in between life stages. It is also known as sabbatical, time off and time out that refers to a period of time in which students disengage from curricular education and undertake non curricular activities, such as travel or...
and sporting tours, where the company sees fit.
The Civic Guild of Old Mercers
The Civic Guild of Old Mercers, established c. 1947, by ex-pupils of Mercers' School, has the stated aim of encouraging former pupils of the Mercers' School to become Freemen and Liverymen of the City of London: and to select, if possible, a Livery Company appropriate to their own trade or profession.When the Mercers' School closed in 1959 it was decided, to extend membership to former pupils from other schools in the Mercers' Cluster. Membership is now open to pupils of the following schools; Abingdon School
Abingdon School
Abingdon School is a British day and boarding independent school for boys situated in Abingdon, Oxfordshire , previously known as Roysse's School. In 1998 a formal merger took place between Abingdon School and Josca's, a preparatory school four miles to the west at Frilford...
, Dauntsey's School, Mercers' School
Mercers' School
The Mercers' School was a private school in the City of London, England, with a history going back to at least 1542, which closed in 1959.After the disestablishment of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acon in 1538, the hospital's land was bought by the Mercers' Company , and the school was founded in...
, St Paul's School, St Paul's Girls School and Thomas Telford School
Thomas Telford School
Thomas Telford School is a City Technology College in Telford, Shropshire, England. Often referred to as 'TTS', it achieved the highest GCSE pass rate of any comprehensive school in England in 2008 and 2009.-Background:...
, and the Colleges of Richard Collyer
The College of Richard Collyer
The College of Richard Collyer, or Collyer's, is a coeducational sixth form college in Horsham, West Sussex, England.-Admissions:Collyer's serves about 1600 students between 16 and 19 years of age. It offers AS and A-level courses in 45 different subjects, including a selection not taught at other...
and Peter Symonds
Peter Symonds College
Peter Symonds College is a sixth form college in Winchester, Hampshire, in the south of England. It is one of the largest sixth form colleges in Britain.-Admissions:...
.
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, philosopher and theologian - A. G. StreetA. G. StreetArthur George Street , who wrote under the name of A. G. Street, was an English farmer, writer and broadcaster. His books were published by the literary publishing house of Faber and Faber...
, authorAuthorAn author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and broadcaster - Lord TedderJohn Tedder, 2nd Baron TedderJohn Michael Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, FRSE , was the Purdie Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews University, Scotland.-Early life and education:...
, professor of Chemistry at St Andrew's
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- Civic Guild of Old MercersCivic Guild of Old MercersThe Civic Guild of Old Mercers has changed its name to the Guild of Mercers' Scholars....
- List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom
- Detailed WCC history