Beginnings

The site for the school and the adjoining school house was built on glebe (Church) land in 1849. The land was given by the Rector, the Rev Edmund Mortlock. He writes "The building was erected wholly at my expense, at the cost of a little over £600, including the fittings of the school and the furniture of the residence. Being therefore at the sole cost of the buildings and the site being granted from the glebe, I reserved the management of the school, to the Rector exclusively." As the school was built on glebe, the consent Cambridge had to be obtained.

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The Duke of Rutland, giving his consent for the school, gave £100 towards the building. He also promised to give the sum of £5 annually towards the salary of the mistress or master and other expenses of the school, on the beginning of the month of January in each year. The Rev Edward Mortlock maintained the school at his own expense and endowed it with the rent, from the former Town House Cottages, which he bought for that purpose. (Cottages were situated on the other side of the river to the church entrance, demolished in 1912).

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