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When a boy joins Sherborne School, he becomes a member for life. The Old Shirburnian Society is Sherborne's Alumni community consisting of 11.000 members worldwide.
Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) Actor. Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1933-1934. Actor, best known for The Navy Lark, Dr Who and Worzel Gummidge.
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705–1539
Sherborne was founded as a cathedral school when, in 705 AD, King Ine of Wessex instructed Aldhelm, a churchman and distinguished scholar, to found a cathedral and college of clergy at Sherborne to relieve pressure from the growing see of Winchester. It is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Anglo-Saxon masonry survives in the Beckett Room, below the school library, a reminder that Sherborne continues to occupy part of the Saxon Cathedral to which it owes its foundation. Alfred t...
1539–1550
While the dissolution of the Benedictine Monastery of Sherborne in 1539 had an impact on administration and finances, Sherborne School remained in continuous operation, as evidenced by extant documents including the Abbey churchwardens' accounts for 1542, which record a rent received from the school, and conclusively from a note on the certificate for Dorset under the Chantries Act, dated 14 January 1548, which records the school at Sherborne as continuatur quousque[long continued].
1550–present
On 29 March 1550 a formal instruction was issued by King Edward VI to re-found Sherborne School – the first of his whole foundation– together with a good endowment of lands that the school might ever endure. A beautifully engrossed Royal Charter was sealed on 13 May 1550, under which the school was to have a headmaster and usher for the education of boys, and a board of twenty governors under a warden. A further note of continuity was struck when the last headmaster of Sherborne under the old...
Boarding school
In the English public school tradition, Sherborne remains a full boarding school with boys living seven days a week in one of eight boarding houses. Sherborne is one of only five such remaining single-sex boys' boarding independent senior schools in the United Kingdom (the others being Eton, Harrow, Radley, and Winchester,although Winchester is in the process of becoming co-educational). Of these five, Sherborne is unique in also admitting a few day boys.
School terms
There are three academic termsin the Sherborne year, 1. The Michaelmas Term, from early September to mid December. New boys are admitted at the start of the Michaelmas Term. 2. The Lent Term, from mid-January to late March. 3. The Trinity Term, from late April to late June.
Houses
Sherborne is a full boarding school for boys with boarding houses operating on the house system. In addition to a house master, each house has a matron, assistant matron, senior tutor and one or more resident tutors. Each house has around 70 boys from across all year groups. There are nine boarding houses: Abbey House has been in continuous use since 1868, but it was also used from 1835 to 1849. Wallace House (formerly Elmdene) was originally used as a 'waiting house', but in 1977 it became a...
Chapel and library
The school chapel was originally the monastic hall (built in the early 15th century over the 12th century undercroft) used by the Abbot of Sherborne Abbey. It was in use as a silk mill from c. 1740 and was acquired by the school in 1851 from Lord Digby. It was restored and extended, and in 1855, consecrated as a chapel, dedicated to St John the Evangelist. It has been extended several times: eastwards in 1853; westwards in 1865; northwards, to create the north aisle, in 1878 and; eastwards in...
Old Schoolroom and The Slype
The Old Schoolroom (OSR) is the oldest of the buildings specifically designed for school use and was the original "scholehouse" built in 1554, on the site of an earlier "schole". The building as seen today dates from when it was rebuilt in 1606 with the architect believed to have been Inigo Jones (1573–1652). High on the east wall is an effigy of Edward VI, sculpted by Godfrey Arnold in 1614.A bay window was added to the South wall in 1886 when the building was undergoing another restoration....
Bow House and Abbey Grange
Bow House is thought to date from the 14th century, but probably rebuilt in the 16th or 17th century. It became an inn c1850 and in 1916 the school bought the building as a staff common room, which it remains as today. Built in the 14th or 15th century, the Abbey Grange was originally the monastic granary. In 1827 it was converted into a dwelling by an OS governor, and in 1969 the governors bought the property to house the headmaster and their family.
Music
Music is a Sherborne tradition. Many boys achieve grade 8 distinctions for voice and a range of instruments. Several boys each year also pass their ATCL diplomas, many with distinction. Some then go on to take their LTCL diplomas. The Week Good Schools Guide named Sherborne as The Best Independent School in the Country for Musicin 2015. In 2010 Sherborne built a new music school with highly specialist recital and recording space. Designed by Richard Keating of Orms, the building won numerous...
Sport
The school's cricket ground – the Upper – is usually used by the 1st XI cricket team. The ground was first used in 1870, when Sherborne School played Clifton College. The ground is also one of the venues used by Dorset for their home fixtures. Dorset played their first match on the ground in the 1902 Minor Counties Championship against Devon. From 1902 to 1997, the ground played host to 69 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Championship match involving Dorset coming in 1997 w...
Rugby
Rugby has been played at Sherborne since 1846. Sherborne was the third school to take up the sport after Rugby itself and Cheltenham, and it competes in an invitational tournament, the Veterrimi IV, involving the four oldest rugby-playing schools. The school has played over 100 matches against local rivals Downside, and the Pilgrims (Old Shirburnians) played their 100th match against Radley in 2015. Robert Hands, a former sports journalist for The Times, has written a history of rugby at Sher...
School magazine
The Shirburnianis the official School magazine, first published in March 1859. It was devised as 'an outlet for its [the school's] wit, and also an easy means of printing all its News, both as regards those of us who are here and those who have left.' The initial run was short-lived, but it was resurrected in May 1864 and has been published continually – almost every term since that year, becoming an annual publication from 1997.
In popular culture
Sherborne School's buildings and grounds have been used in several films including: 1. The Guinea Pig(1948) 2. The Browning Version(1951) 3. Goodbye Mr Chips(1969) 4. A Murder of Quality(1991) 5. The Browning Version(1994) 6. The Imitation Game(2014) 7. Wolf Hall(BBC TV Series 2015) 8. Far from the Madding Crowd(2015)
Headmasters
Headmasters of Sherborne from 1437 to the present time.
Ushers
The usher, or lower master, was appointed by the governors of Sherborne independent of the headmaster. The qualifications required were similar to those for a headmaster, although he was usually a younger man who might reasonably expect to obtain a headmastership elsewhere in time. He was required to have attained at least a BA from Oxford or Cambridge, and he may have been in Holy Orders. The usher was responsible for teaching the lower three forms and had responsibilities over the boys simi...
Old Shirburnians
Former pupils of Sherborne School are known as Old Shirburniansor OS. What follows is a selection of more recent notable Old Shirburnians: Notable Old Shirburnians in academia include mathematician, cryptanalyst and father of artificial intelligence and the first modern computer Alan Turing; headmaster of Eton College, master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University Michael McCrum; master of Balliol College and vice-chancellor of Oxford University Sir C...
Profile on the Independent Schools Councilwebsite- 8 (9 from 2021)
Welcome to the OSS website. The Old Shirburnian Society was founded in 1896 and today has 11,000 members worldwide. The OSS continues its original objective of keeping former pupils of Sherborne School in touch with the School and with each other.
The following are some of the notable old boys of Sherborne School who were born in the 19th century. [1] Speaker of the House of Representatives, New Zealand Sir William Fitzherbert. QC and Conservative MP William Forsyth (barrister) 1801 to 1809.
Sherborne School is an HMC independent full boarding and day School for boys aged 13-18 in Dorset.
Boys in The Courts, Sherborne School, 1904. For further information about the Sherborne School Archives please contact the School Archivist . Return to the School Archives homepage .
