List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)
Standard name Other names Foundation Comments
Acaster Selby Grammar School 1535 Founded by Bishop Robert Stillington . In mid-19th century Sir William Milner was a major benefactor , who built both the church and school after 1850
Arksey Grammar School Bryan Cooke Esq . 's will ( 3 January 1660 ) endowed a grammar school . His son Sir George Cooke , bart built the school and master 's house . Rev . Crichley of Doncaster paid £10 p.a . for half a scholarship for a poor boy of Bentley-in-Arksey
Batley Grammar School 1613 Founded by Rev William Lee , Vicar of Stapleford , Cambridge and endowed with 30 acres in the Township of Gomersall yielding £15 p.a . Further endowments followed at Gomersall for £327 8s. , and Horbury for £32 5s
Bedale Grammar School Ancient Endowed with £7 11s . 4d at the Dissolution . Additional rent charge of £13 6s . 8d p.a . ( 20 marks ) out of lands at Collough Grange , Lincolnshire
Beverley Grammar School 700 Britain 's oldest state school
Bingley Grammar School 1529 Since 2011 the school has had specialist status
Bowes Grammar School Bowes Free School , Bowes Hall School , Bowes Academy 1693 The founder was William Hutchinson . Further endowment of £399 was issued from Charles Parkin , nephew of the founder . Near Greta Bridge . Widely thought to be the model for Dotheboys Hall , and Charles Dickens researched the press reports of the 1823 legal cases against the head William Shaw
Bradford Grammar School 1553 Incorporated by letters patent on 10 October 1663 from Charles II . Bradford Grammar School had Direct Grant status until 1975 , when it became independent
Cawthorne Grammar School The Free School at Cawthorne 25 June 1639 £5 4s . paid to schoolmaster by Receiver of the Honour of Pontefract of the Duchy of Lancaster plus an additional sum from the town of £8 2s . 8d
Coxwold Grammar School The Free Grammar School at Coxwold 1603 Founded by Sir John Harte knight , citizen , and alderman of London charged his manor of Silton for an annual payment of £36 to the master of the school
Doncaster Grammar School Hall Cross Academy 1350 the grammar amalgamated with the Doncaster Girls School ; converted to academy status in 2012
Drax Grammar School The Free Grammar School at Drax , The Read School 1667 Founded by a local lawyer and philanthropist , Charles Reade , gentleman , of Darleton , County of Nottingham , who built a school and almshouses in the town
Drighlington Grammar School The Free Grammar School at Drighlington , near Leeds 1678 James Margetson , Archbishop of Armagh , founded a benevolence for the school 's endowment from lands , tenements and hereditaments in Drighlington and Newhall . Received letters patent in 1691 . Replaced in 1875 by the Drighlington Board School
Giggleswick Grammar School The Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth of Giggleswick 26 May 1553 Founded by letters patent on the petition of a clerk , John Newell . Six scholarships founded by Mr Carr to Christ 's College , Cambridge
Guisbrough Grammar School Prior Pursglove College 19 June 1561 The Grammar School , Almshouse or Hospital in Honour of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Town of Gisburn . An Elizabethan foundation by letters patent to Prior Robert Pursglove , pro Dean of Cleaveland was endowed with £41 4s. , by the division of Common fields at Bolam . Rebuilt in 1887 by Alfred Waterhouse , and refurbished in 2013
North Halifax Grammar School The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth at Skircoat in the Parish of Halifax 15 February 1585 Founded by a royal charter procured by Henry Farrer of Ewood at his own expense . Archbishop Blackburn appointed eleven governors nominated , signed and under seal on 23 October 1727
Hartford Grammar School 1561 Robert Pursglove , clerk , the last prior of Guisbrough Priory , was granted letters patent for the education and learning of boys and youth
Hemsworth Grammar School The Free School of Robert Halgate , Archbishop of York 24 October 1546 Founded by Robert Halgate of Hemsworth , Archbishop of York and President of the King 's Council in the North on property of a rental charge of £150
Heptonstall Grammar School 14 July 1642 The Free School was founded by Charles Greenwood , clerk in holy orders , Rector of Thornhill , by his will dated 14 July 1642
Hipperholme Grammar School 15 October 1647 The Free School in Hipperholme was founded by Matthew Broadley of London by his will dated 15 October 1547 to educate and instruct in Grammar , and other Literature and Learning , the Scholars and Children of the Township and Constablery of Hipperholme cum Brighouse
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This is a list of endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of Endowed Grammar Schools published in 1818, but is referenced to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later. Most English and Welsh endowed schools were at the time described as grammar schools, but by the eighteenth century there were three groups: the old public schools (Eton and eight others); schools in manufacturing towns that innovated to some extent in syllabus; and more traditional grammar schools in market towns and rural areas. A medieval grammar school was one which taught Latin, and this remained an important subject in all the schools, which generally followed the traditions of Oxford and Cambridge, from which almost all of their graduate schoolmasters came. Some of the schools listed by Carlisle had long been fee-paying public schools, although in most cases (as at Eton and Winchester) retaining some provision for the teaching of scholars who paid reduced or no fees. An endowment for educational purposes had an original purpose, often intended by the founder or founders to be legally binding, but the objects of such endowments were not always fully honoured by those controlling the schools. Carlisle compiled his list by means of a questionnaire, which was not always answered. The Commission's report built on his research, while not accepting all his claims on the continuity of certain schools from monastic and chantry foundations, which affected the dating of schools. The chronological list in the report has numerous further details of endowments. There is little consistency in the actual names of grammar schools from this period. Many were called free schools. Carlisle used some unorthodox spellings, and he listed Hampshire under its alternative historical name of Southamptonshire.