Battersea Grammar School was a
Voluntary-Controlled Secondary
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Grammar School
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in
South London
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. It was established in
Battersea
Battersea is a large district in south London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and extends along the south bank of the River Thames. It includes the Battersea Park.
History
Batter ...
in 1875 by the
Sir Walter St John Trust
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and moved to larger premises in
Streatham
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Streatham was in Surrey ...
in 1936.
The school closed when it was amalgamated with
Rosa Bassett School
Rosa Bassett School was a grammar school for girls in South London. Established in 1906 in Stockwell as the Stockwell County Secondary School, in 1913 it moved to Welham Road on the boundary between Streatham and Tooting. It was renamed the C ...
, a grammar school for girls, in 1977 to create the new
Furzedown Secondary School
Furzedown Secondary School was a Coeducation, mixed comprehensive school in South London. It was established in Welham Road on the boundary between Streatham and Tooting in 1977, following the amalgamation of Battersea Grammar School, Battersea G ...
, a
mixed comprehensive school
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in
Tooting
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History
Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times ...
.
History
Beginnings
Although the school was only formally established in 1875 it shares its early history with that of the
Sir Walter St John's School in
Battersea
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History
Batter ...
. The joint history dates back to the late 1660s, when
Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet
Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet (May 1622 – 3 July 1708), of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and of Battersea (succeeded in 1657), was an English MP.
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He was the sixth son of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet of Lydiate Tregoze and inherited ...
founded a school on his estate at Battersea. Sir Walter assured the future of his school by means of an endowment signed on the 7 September 1700, stating in the
trust
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deed that "being minded to found and forever to establish a charity in the said Parish of Battersea, wherein he now dwelleth for the benefit of the said Parish and Towne, Battersea, and to erect and endow a school for the Education of 20 Free Scholars, he gave a house and garden to be forever hereafter used as a school house for the teaching of scholars therein."
The scholars were "to be elected and putt into the said schoole in a mannere hereinafter mentioned to read write and to cast accounts."
The establishment of Battersea Grammar as a separate school was prompted by the changes resulting from the
Elementary Education Act 1870
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. There was considerable debate as to how best to proceed, but eventually a proposal for a new trust scheme, under the
Endowed Schools Act 1869
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, was put before Parliament and approved at a meeting of the
Privy Council
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on the 9 August 1873.
The new scheme would create a new Upper School, with the existing site housing a public elementary school and a new middle school if the governors so decided.
A building for the new school was purchased in 1874, and the post of headmaster of the Sir Walter St John's Upper School advertised. Edmund A. Richardson, was appointed to the post on 19 January 1875 and the school opened on 12 April 1875.
The old school continued to be known as the
Sir Walter St John's School, with both schools under the control of the Sir Walter St John's Schools Trust.
The name Battersea Grammar School was not formally recorded in the scheme of the trust until 1893,
however the school had been known by that name almost from the beginning.
Development and relocation
The first few years of the new Battersea Grammar School were not promising, with the number of pupils declining and proposals to close the school. The appointment of William H. Bindley as headmaster in 1880 or 1881 (sources disagree) turned matters around in both the quality of education and pupil numbers, which increased from 48 in 1881 to 160 by 1891.
The original school building purchased to house Battersea Grammar School was known as St John's Lodge and stood on St John's Hill, on the corner of Plough Road,
Battersea
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History
Batter ...
.
This was enlarged by the addition of an East Wing in 1906 as the number of pupils rose to 250, and pupil numbers increased still further, reaching 450 by 1919.
The St John's Hill site had become increasingly constrained, as land had been purchased from the school by the
London and South Western Railway
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as it expanded around
Clapham Junction railway station
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. Although there had been earlier proposals to move, a decision was not made until 1935, when the
LCC offered a site on Abbotswood Road in
Streatham
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.
Plans for a new building to accommodate 540 pupils, designed by J. E. K. Harrison, a former pupil of the school, were quickly approved
and in September 1936 the school moved to its new location.
War years
The outbreak of the
Second World War
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in 1939 prompted the evacuation of the school from Abbotswood Road. The school initially moved to
Worthing
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, where it was accommodated by Worthing Grammar School. The worsening outlook in 1940 resulted in another move in the middle of that year, this time to
Hertford
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The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, ne ...
, where it shared the buildings of
Hertford Grammar School.
The school remained in Hertford until early 1945, when it moved back to Abbotswood Road. The return to Streatham also saw the retirement of Henry Ellis, who had taken over as headmaster from William Bindley in 1918, and he was succeeded by Walter Langford.
The war years also saw a significant change in the governance of the school in response to the
Education Act 1944
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. Up until that time the school had been an aided school under the control of the Sir Walter St John's Schools Trust, but the new Act led to the school becoming
voluntary-controlled, which gave the
local education authority
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(then the
LCC, later the
ILEA) ten seats on the school's
governing body
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, while the trust retained only five representatives.
Amalgamation and closure
With the abolition of the
Tripartite System
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, the
Inner London Education Authority
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took the decision to move to a fully
comprehensive system
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of education. In the case of Battersea Grammar School this was achieved in 1977 by an amalgamation with the
Rosa Bassett School
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, a grammar school for girls, and a move to a new site to create
Furzedown Secondary School
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. The majority of the teaching staff transferred to the new comprehensive school.
Following the amalgamation with Rosa Bassett School, the Abbotswood Road site was no longer used by the new school, with the exception of the playing fields there. Then, from 1977 until its dissolution in 1991, the
South West London College
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The college was founded in 1966, and closed in 1990; initially it was proposed that it would be merged with the Thames P ...
of Further Education occupied the site. Since 1994 the Abbotswood Road site has been the home of the Senior Department (
sixth form
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) of the
Streatham and Clapham High School
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.
Headmasters
* 1875–c. 1878: Edmund A. Richardson
* c. 1878–1880: Jefferson (?)
* 1880–1918: William Henry Bindley
* 1918–1945: Henry Russell Ellis (acting headmaster 1918–1920)
* 1945–1965: Walter James Langford, d. 1996
* 1965–1972: James (Jim) Patrick Cowan, d. 22nd March 1979
* 1972–1973: Eedward Gerald Cooley (acting headmaster), d. 12th January 1989
* 1973–1977: John A. Phillips
There is some disagreement between the sources as to the date on which W. H. Bindley took over as headmaster; it was either 1880 or 1881. He had been a master at the school since its establishment in 1875.
House system
A system of four
houses
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was established in 1907.
The houses were:
* St John's – named after the founder of the original school,
Sir Walter St John.
* Bolingbroke – named after Sir Walter's grandson
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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.
* Spencer – after the later
lords of the manor
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of Battersea, the manor having been bought from the last St John in 1763 by
John, Viscount Spencer.
* Trinity – named after a church in the district.
In 1919 two additional houses were created:
* Erskine – after Canon
John Erskine Clarke, a former vicar of Battersea and member of the Sir Walter St John Trust at the time of the establishment of the school.
* Dawnay – after Sir Archibald Davis Dawnay,
Mayor
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of
Wandsworth
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from 1908 until his death on 23 April 1919
and a benefactor of the school.
House colours were:
*St John's – dark blue;
*Bolingbroke – yellow;
*Spencer – green;
*Trinity – red;
*Erskine – pale blue;
*Dawnay – purple.
Insignia and motto
Both Battersea Grammar and the
Sir Walter St John's School used the
arms
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of their founder
Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet
Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet (May 1622 – 3 July 1708), of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and of Battersea (succeeded in 1657), was an English MP.
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, although in slightly modified forms. The motto ''Rather Deathe than False of Faythe'' appears to have been a later addition.
Graveney School
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(which was formed from several schools, including Battersea Grammar) still has the motto above the war memorial.
For its
blazer
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badge the school took the gold falcon from the
crest
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of Sir Walter's arms. The crest was changed in 1959 from a gold falcon rising, wings displayed and inverted, to one rising with wings elevated and addorsed.
The falcon is
ducally gorged with a red, three-pointed crown around its neck, and belled in gold with red
jesses.
Former pupils
* Anthony Allen, chief executive of the
NHBC from 1994 to 1996
* Robert Audley, professor of psychology at
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
from 1964 to 1995, president of the
British Psychological Society
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from 1969 to 1970, and editor of the
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
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from 1965 to 1970
*
Michael R. Ayers, professor of philosophy at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
from 1996 to 2002
*
Robert Bartlett, professor of history at St Andrews University
*
Colin Bennetts, clergyman and
Bishop of Coventry
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from 1998 to 2008
*
C. W. A. Scott
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, aviator, winner of the 1934
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*
Gerald Bowden
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, Conservative MP for
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from 1983 to 1992
*
Bobby Brown
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, professional footballer
*
Michael Bryant, actor
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Oliver Bulman,
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at the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
from 1955 to 1966, and president of the
Palaeontological Association
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from 1960 to 1962
* Sir Norman Costar,
High Commissioner to Cyprus from 1967 to 1969 and to Trinidad and Tobago from 1962 to 1966
*
Maurice Cowling
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, historian
*
David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone
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, chairman of
Ofcom
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from 2002 to 2009
*
Steven Downes, journalist
*
John Gloag
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* Sir Walter Godfrey, ambassador to South Korea from 1961 to 1966
*
Hugh Gray, Labour MP for
Great Yarmouth
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from 1966 to 1970
*
John Howell, Conservative MP for
Henley since 2008
*
Phillip Jones, musician, musical administrator, leader of the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble
*
Sir Frederick Lawton, Lord Justice of Appeal 1972–86
*
Raymond Mander, theatre journalist
*
Albert Mansbridge
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, founded the
Workers' Educational Association
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in 1903
*
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, actor
*
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*
Trevor Robbins
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, professor of experimental psychology at the
University of Cambridge
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Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
since 2002
*
Bryan Robertson
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*
Ronald Robinson
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, historian and
Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
from 1971 to 1987
*
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*
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, cricketer for Middlesex, Glamorgan and England, and cricket correspondent of ''
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* Adrian Sindall,
ambassador to Syria from 1994 to 1996, and
High Commissioner to Brunei from 1991 to 1994
*
David Smith, cricketer for Surrey, Worcestershire, Sussex and England
*
Edward Thomas, poet
*
Clark Tracey
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*
John Yates,
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from 1975 to 1991
References
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