SW corner of Bridgnorth Endowed School
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SW corner of Bridgnorth Endowed School
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 2 Jul 2014
Viewed across the B4373 Northgate. The school's website states that the school began in 1503 during the reign of King Henry VIII. The chantries, places where people paid for the saying of prayers for the departed, did not provide fulltime work for a priest, who were thus often employed as schoolmasters. The priests who served the chantries attached to St Leonard’s Church were assisted by children and those children were ordered by instruction of the Bridgnorth Court Leet in March 1503 to receive an education. This measure of responsibility assumed by the town for running the school and appointing a schoolmaster lasted until 1909. The beginning of the endowment of the Grammar School came with the dissolution of the chantries throughout England and Wales by an Act of Parliament in 1547. £8 per year from the revenues of the now dissolved chantry at St Leonard’s was set aside for a schoolmaster to run a Grammar School there.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.538429
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-2.421036