Chipping Campden School

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Chipping Campden School is an outstanding non-selective secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Chipping Campden, in the English county of Gloucestershire. Founded in c1440 the school celebrated its 575th birthday in 2015.The school was founded with money left by John Fereby and his wife, a wealthy wool merchant, for the education of the poor boys of the town. Further investments were provided by Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden and later the Earl of Gainsborough in the 17th century and John Townsend. The school now uses these founders as its house names.The original school buildings were situated in the High Street in Chipping Campden offering boarding for boys and later girls in other local buildings.The school came to be a grammar school until 1965 when it merged with Moreton Secondary Modern School to become a comprehensive. The school buildings were substantially enlarged in 1964 to house the incoming students from Moreton.Headmasters of Chipping Campden Grammar School (up to 1964) 1547 Sir Robert Glaseman 1627 Rev Ambrose Jenks 1632 Rev Broadway 1635 Rev Samuel Edwards 1647 Rev Butler 1648 Rev Mason MA 1664 Rev Kirkham 1669 Rev Taylor 1686 Rev Morse 1700 Rev Smith 1717 Rev R Goodhall 1741 Rev Lumbert 1766 Rev W Boyce 1772 Rev T Symonds 1797 Rev J Worgan 1822 Rev R O Wilson 1832 Rev J Harling 1835 Rev T F Layng 1837 Rev H Miniken 1840- Rev Barton 1855 Rev G B Dodwell 1862 Rev Dr S F Hiron 1871 Rev J Foster 1889 Mr F B Osborne 1913 Mr W M Cox MA 1927 Mr W J Bright MA 1951 Mr A L Jones MC MA