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Bishop's Stortford College is a
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tradition for more than 1,200 pupils aged 4–18, situated in a campus on the edge of the market town of
Bishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, just west of the M11 motorway on the county boundary with Essex, north-east of central London, and by rail from Liverpool Street station. Stortford had an estimated po ...
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, England. As an " all-through" school, it is a member of both the
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and the
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. It is also a founding member of the Bishop’s Stortford Educational Trust, a consortium of local primary and secondary schools, and currently the only such trust in the UK to involve both state and independent sectors. The college head is Kathy Crewe-Read.


History

The college was founded in 1868 by a group of prominent
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n Nonconformists who wanted to establish a public school "in which Evangelical Nonconformists might secure for their boys, an effective and Christian education on terms that should not be beyond the reach of the middle class generally". They approached the Bishop's Stortford Collegiate School, a non-sectarian school founded in 1850, and acquired the buildings, renaming it The Nonconformist Grammar School. It was inaugurated on 23 September 1868, with 40 pupils, including 17 boarders, under the headship of Rev Richard Alliott, who remained at the helm until his death in 1899. Former star pupil Francis Young became second headmaster, in 1900. During his 31-year tenure the roll increased from just 90 pupils to nearly 400 and the school grew in reputation. Among Young's first acts were: renaming it the Bishop's Stortford College in 1901, to avoid confusion with the town's rival Grammar School; in 1902 taking over an existing school for boys aged 8–13 years, which became the new preparatory department; in 1903 introducing rugby; and in 1904 changing the school's status from private commercial ownership to publicly endowed. He also commissioned many of the campus's redbrick buildings designed in the arts and crafts style by architect and former pupil Herbert Ibberson, acquired the 100 acre sports fields and oversaw construction of the Memorial Hall, commemorating the Old Stortfordians who had died in the
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. The college changed status in 1945, from a
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to fully independent
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. It celebrated its centenary in 1968 with a major building programme and a visit by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, followed in 1969 with a book, ''Bishop’s Stortford College: A Centenary Chronicle''. September 1977 saw the first four girls admitted, and the following year the first girls' house, Young, opened. In 1995 the college became fully
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, appointed its first female deputy head, Wendy Bellars, and opened a new co-ed Pre-Prep day school. Since 2013 large parts of the college have been substantially redeveloped and expanded, including new premises for Alliott, Collett, Trotman and Rowe Houses, and an extension to the Prep School (during which workers excavated 2.5 tonnes of
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, one of the rarest rocks). In the early hours of 29 September 2015 Robert Pearce boarding house was devastated by fire. Pupils and staff were evacuated safely but the building lost its roof and burned down to the bricks. It was renovated and reopened in January 2018, in time for the college's 150th anniversary, which was commemorated in the book, ''Bishop's Stortford College: Celebrating 150 Years 1868-2018.'' On 1 September 2020 Kathy Crewe-Read, formerly head of
Wolverhampton Grammar School Wolverhampton Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Wolverhampton, England. History Initially a grammar school for boys, WGS was founded in 1512 by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a master of the ancient guild of Merchant Taylors, who ...
, became the first woman to lead the school and only the tenth head in its 152-year history.


College heads

In its first century, the college had just five headmasters. * 1868–1899: Rev Richard Alliott * 1900–1931: Francis S Young * 1932–1943: H Leo Price * 1944–1957: AN Evans * 1957–1970: Peter Rowe * 1970–1984: Colin Greetham * 1984–1997: Stephen George Garnett Benson * 1997–2011: John Trotman * 2011–2020: Jeremy Gladwin * 2020–present: Kathy Crewe-Read


Present day

There are 1,213 pupils at Bishop's Stortford College: 580 in the Senior School (aged 13–18), including 238 in the Sixth Form, 505 in the Prep School (aged 7–13) and 128 in Pre-Prep (aged 4–7). Pupils board from the age of seven. The Senior School has 111 boarders, including full, weekly and part-time; the Prep School has 26 full, weekly or flexi-boarders. Most UK boarders come from Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex and London, while most international boarders are Senior School pupils. In 2020, the college produced its best-ever GCSE results, with 79% of all grades at 9-7 (up from 76% in 2019). At A Level, students achieved a 100% pass rate in 2020, with 86% of results graded A*-B and 62% at A*-A. Most students go on to study at
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. The lates
ISI
Education Quality Inspection report, published in March 2017, found that "the quality of the pupils' academic and other achievements is excellent", with pupils displaying "excellent attitudes towards their learning and highly developed study skills". The report also stated that "the school is highly successful in creating an ethic of hard work and enthusiastic participation". The college maintains a Christian ethos but promotes matters of faith from a non-denominational perspective that is sensitive towards pupils of other faiths and none. Morning assemblies are led by the head and the school chaplain, with an evening service for boarders every Sunday and a weekly prayer breakfast for staff on Wednesday mornings. Since 2009 it has hosted an annual Festival of Literature, which is open to the public and includes events for local primary schools. Speakers and performers have included
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Anthony Browne, broadcasters
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and the bestselling novelist Rachel Joyce. Due to the
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restrictions, the 2021 festival was a virtual event.


Houses

The college has 14 houses, all named after prominent figures in its history. Each of the six, single-sex day houses in the Senior School is in the care of a housemaster or housemistress, while the five boarding houses all have resident house parents, a resident assistant and other resident staff. Prep School pupils are split into four houses for competitions: Monk-Jones, Newbury, Westfield and Grimwade, but the latter is the only bricks and mortar house and is home to the boarders. The Senior School has five houses for boys – Collett, Hayward and Sutton for day boys, and Robert Pearce and Rowe for boys' boarding; and five houses for girls – Alliott, Benson and Tee for day girls, and Trotman and Young for girls' boarding.


College facilities

The FS Young Library was built in 1936 as a permanent memorial to FS Young, college headmaster from 1900 to 1931. Since 1992 it has been run by qualified librarians and is fully supervised for 70 hours a week to provide research and study facilities and assistance for pupils and staff. It is also home to an extensive archive of college records, publications, photographs, cuttings, and memorabilia including old uniforms from the college's early days. Sports facilities include a sports hall, fitness centre and indoor pool, officially opened in 2002 by Olympian swimmer
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. The playing fields cover more than 100 acres, including 12 rugby pitches, seven cricket squares and 16 cricket nets, three grass hockey pitches, five football pitches and a grass running track. There are also two floodlit
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pitches for tennis and hockey, all-weather surface courts for netball and tennis and a multi-use games area. The college has been included in ''The Cricketer'' magazine's guide to cricket's top 100 schools in England since 2017 and the Prep School is in the top 50 for the first time in the 2021 edition. In 2020 it became an MCC Foundation Cricket Hub, providing free cricketing facilities and coaching to state-educated young cricketers. The
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Memorial Hall has been used for assemblies, concerts and special events since it was formally opened in 1922 by
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in North Wales), it was built to commemorate the 62 former college boys who had died in the First World War. The doors were given in memory of EA Knight, a popular master killed on active service in Belgium in 1917. A second Roll of Honour was added in 1949, inscribed with the names of a further 92 former students who died while serving in the Second World War. Wooden chairs in the hall had names individually carved for dedication. The Ferguson Building, opened in 2007 and named after Old Stortfordian Professor John Ferguson, who was a founding member of the
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, provides a lecture theatre for up to 180 people, meeting room, ICT suite and sixth form social centre. It is built on the site of the old indoor swimming pool and retains some of its original features. It hosts the Ferguson Lectures, which focus on contemporary issues and are open to the public; speakers have included former
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; Jason Cowley, editor of the New Statesman;
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. Other facilities include the purpose-built Charles Edwards Centre, which houses ICT, physics and design and technology, and the Walter Strachan Art Centre, which has a sculpture studio, workshop, gallery space, IT suite, sixth form studio and departmental library.


Notable Old Stortfordians

Former pupils are known as Old Stortfordians. For a more complete list, see
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. * Sir Leonard Pearce (1873–1947),
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(1897–1986) MC, Olympic medalist, teacher, soldier, chemist, nuclear scientist * H Leo Price (1899–1943), hockey and rugby international, Bishop's Stortford College headmaster, 1932–1943 *
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Ben Clarke Ben Clarke (born 15 April 1968), is a former England back-row international rugby union player. Biography Educated at Bishop's Stortford College, Clarke played for Bath Rugby from 1992 to 1996, before joining Richmond F.C. as the first £1- ...
(born 1968), England
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
player (1992–1999) *
Alastair Lukies Alastair David Lukies CBE (born 1973 Harlow, United Kingdom) is a British entrepreneur who is involved in mobile communications. In 2003, Lukies co-founded Monitise. In 2006, he was recognised as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. ...
(born 1973),
entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
and co-founder of
Monitise Monitise Plc was a British company in financial services technology. Monitise was founded by Alastair Lukies and Steven Atkinson in 2003. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the US, Turkey, and Cardiff. The compan ...
*
Iain Mackay Iain Mackay (born 24 April 1985) is a British field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the tournament. Club career MacKay played club hockey with Reading but left after the Olympics to join Hampst ...
(born 1985), hockey international, Olympian *
Charli XCX Charlotte Emma Aitchison (born 2 August 1992), known professionally as Charli XCX, is an English singer and songwriter. Born in Cambridge and raised in Start Hill, Essex, she began posting songs on Myspace in 2008, which led to her discovery ...
(Charlotte Aitchison; born 1992), multi-award-winning singer-songwriter *
Elinah Phillip Elinah Phillip (born 3 April 2000) is a British Virgin Islander swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The first Olympic swimmer to represent the British Virgin Islands, Phillip ranked 48th ...
(born 2000), Olympic swimmer Notable teachers have included: *
Percy Horton Percy Frederick Horton MA, RBA, ARCA (8 March 1897 in Brighton, England – 1970) was an English painter and art teacher, and Ruskin Master of Drawing, University of Oxford from 1949 to 1964. During the First World War he was imprisoned as ...
(1897–1970),
painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
, College art master 1925–1930 *
Herbert Sumsion Herbert Whitton Sumsion (14 January 1899 – 11 August 1995) was an English musician who was organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1928 to 1967. Through his leadership role with the Three Choirs Festival, Sumsion maintained close associations ...
(1899–1995), Organist of Gloucester Cathedral, College director of music 1924–1926 * Viscount Bracken (1901–1958), publisher, politician,
First Lord of the Admiralty The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible for the di ...
, College master c.1920–1922 * Bernie Cotton
MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...
(born 1948), England and Great Britain hockey player and coach, college geography master 1960s, 1970s, 1990s


References


Further reading

* John Morley and Norman Monk-Jones (1969), ''Bishop's Stortford College 1868-1968 Centenary Chronicle'' (JM Dent & Sons Ltd, London) * John Ferguson (1970), ''Cricket at Bishop's Stortford College Essex 1868-1968'' * Bob Kisby (2017), ''Bishop's Stortford College 1968-2018: Fifty Years On'' * Bishop's Stortford College (2018), ''Bishop's Stortford College: Celebrating 150 Years 1868-2018''


External links


Bishop's Stortford College Prospectus: HistoryProfile
in the Good Schools Guide *Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI
reports
{{Coord , 51, 52, 12, N, 00, 09, 07, E, display=title Educational institutions established in 1868 Independent schools in Hertfordshire Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Boarding schools in Hertfordshire 1868 establishments in England * Bishop's Stortford