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Monkton Combe School | |
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Location | |
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Monkton Combe, near
Bath , , BA2 7HG England | |
Coordinates | 51°21′25″N 2°19′37″W / 51.3569°N 2.3270°W |
Information | |
Type |
Public school Private boarding school |
Motto |
Latin: Verbum Tuum Veritas (Thy Word is Truth) |
Established | 1868 |
Founder | The Revd Francis Pocock |
Head Master | Christopher Wheeler (Senior School), Catherine Winchcombe (Prep School) |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 2 to 18 |
Enrolment | 711 (Senior, Prep and Pre-Prep) |
Houses | 6 Senior, 5 Prep |
Colour(s) | Navy Blue & White |
Former pupils | Old Monktonians |
Website | http://www.monktoncombeschool.com |
Monkton Combe School is a public school ( fee-charging boarding and day school), located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England.
It is a member of the Rugby Group of major independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom. [1]
Monkton Combe School was founded in 1868 by the Revd. Francis Pocock, a former curate to the Bishop of Sierra Leone in the 1850s. [2]
Several of the school's buildings are listed, including the main Senior school block known as The Old Farm, [3] and the part of the Terrace Block known as The Old Vicarage. [4]
The school has extensive grounds at both the Preparatory and Senior schools, and its Senior cricket pitches (Longmead and Langham) has been described as one of the most picturesque in England, regularly featuring in the Wisden Cricket Calendar. [5]
The school maintains two boathouses, both on the River Avon. The older is situated on the edge of the Senior school grounds, sitting below the Dundas Aqueduct and is used mainly for junior rowing. In 2014 the school opened a new boathouse in the nearby village of Saltford, which benefits from a wider and straighter stretch of river, as well as more spacious land facilities. [6] Students row as the Monkton Bluefriars Boat Club.
At the Senior school there are three boys houses: Farm, Eddystone and School; and three girls houses: Grange, Clarendon and Nutfield. Each house mixes day and boarding pupils.
Clarendon house continues the traditions of Clarendon School for Girls, a former independent girls school which merged with Monkton in 1992, at which point the school became coeducational. [7]
The Preparatory school has four day pupil houses: Howard, Easterfield, Kearns and Jameson; in addition to Hatton house, a mixed boarding house.
According to the school’s website it has produced six Olympic rowing medalists. Each represented Great Britain and three won gold medals.
In addition an OM achieved an Olympic Gold Medal representing Great Britain at men's hockey, while another captained the England Netball Team which won Gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [8]
The school has ties to the Royal Navy ship HMS Magpie, a Black Swan-class sloop which was commanded by then Lieutenant-Commander, later Admiral of the Fleet the Duke of Edinburgh. The ties were established when the ship took the Junior school’s badge, a magpie (designed by the art mistress, Miss Bulmer), as its ship’s emblem.
The ship's bell was presented to the Junior School upon its decommissioning. The link is maintained with the current HMS Magpie, a survey ship, which continues to use the magpie emblem. [9]
The following have been Head Masters or Principals of Monkton Combe School: [10]
Name | Years as Head Master |
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Revd F. Pocock | 1868–1875 |
Revd R.G. Bryan | 1875–1895 |
Revd W.E. Bryan | 1895–1900 |
Revd N. Bennett | 1900 |
Revd J.W. Kearns | 1900–1926 |
Revd E. Hayward | 1926–1946 |
D.R. Wigram | 1946–1968 |
R.J. Knight | 1968–1978 |
R.A.C. Meredith | 1978–1990 |
M.J. Cuthbertson | 1990–2005 |
R. Backhouse | 2005–2015 |
C. Wheeler | 2016–Present |
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Monkton Combe School | |
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Location | |
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Monkton Combe, near
Bath , , BA2 7HG England | |
Coordinates | 51°21′25″N 2°19′37″W / 51.3569°N 2.3270°W |
Information | |
Type |
Public school Private boarding school |
Motto |
Latin: Verbum Tuum Veritas (Thy Word is Truth) |
Established | 1868 |
Founder | The Revd Francis Pocock |
Head Master | Christopher Wheeler (Senior School), Catherine Winchcombe (Prep School) |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 2 to 18 |
Enrolment | 711 (Senior, Prep and Pre-Prep) |
Houses | 6 Senior, 5 Prep |
Colour(s) | Navy Blue & White |
Former pupils | Old Monktonians |
Website | http://www.monktoncombeschool.com |
Monkton Combe School is a public school ( fee-charging boarding and day school), located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England.
It is a member of the Rugby Group of major independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom. [1]
Monkton Combe School was founded in 1868 by the Revd. Francis Pocock, a former curate to the Bishop of Sierra Leone in the 1850s. [2]
Several of the school's buildings are listed, including the main Senior school block known as The Old Farm, [3] and the part of the Terrace Block known as The Old Vicarage. [4]
The school has extensive grounds at both the Preparatory and Senior schools, and its Senior cricket pitches (Longmead and Langham) has been described as one of the most picturesque in England, regularly featuring in the Wisden Cricket Calendar. [5]
The school maintains two boathouses, both on the River Avon. The older is situated on the edge of the Senior school grounds, sitting below the Dundas Aqueduct and is used mainly for junior rowing. In 2014 the school opened a new boathouse in the nearby village of Saltford, which benefits from a wider and straighter stretch of river, as well as more spacious land facilities. [6] Students row as the Monkton Bluefriars Boat Club.
At the Senior school there are three boys houses: Farm, Eddystone and School; and three girls houses: Grange, Clarendon and Nutfield. Each house mixes day and boarding pupils.
Clarendon house continues the traditions of Clarendon School for Girls, a former independent girls school which merged with Monkton in 1992, at which point the school became coeducational. [7]
The Preparatory school has four day pupil houses: Howard, Easterfield, Kearns and Jameson; in addition to Hatton house, a mixed boarding house.
According to the school’s website it has produced six Olympic rowing medalists. Each represented Great Britain and three won gold medals.
In addition an OM achieved an Olympic Gold Medal representing Great Britain at men's hockey, while another captained the England Netball Team which won Gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [8]
The school has ties to the Royal Navy ship HMS Magpie, a Black Swan-class sloop which was commanded by then Lieutenant-Commander, later Admiral of the Fleet the Duke of Edinburgh. The ties were established when the ship took the Junior school’s badge, a magpie (designed by the art mistress, Miss Bulmer), as its ship’s emblem.
The ship's bell was presented to the Junior School upon its decommissioning. The link is maintained with the current HMS Magpie, a survey ship, which continues to use the magpie emblem. [9]
The following have been Head Masters or Principals of Monkton Combe School: [10]
Name | Years as Head Master |
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Revd F. Pocock | 1868–1875 |
Revd R.G. Bryan | 1875–1895 |
Revd W.E. Bryan | 1895–1900 |
Revd N. Bennett | 1900 |
Revd J.W. Kearns | 1900–1926 |
Revd E. Hayward | 1926–1946 |
D.R. Wigram | 1946–1968 |
R.J. Knight | 1968–1978 |
R.A.C. Meredith | 1978–1990 |
M.J. Cuthbertson | 1990–2005 |
R. Backhouse | 2005–2015 |
C. Wheeler | 2016–Present |