Brewood Grammar School

Brewood Grammar School

Established	c. c. 1450, refounded 1553
Closed	1975
Type	grammar school
Founders	Bishop of Lichfield
Location	Brewood Staffordshire England Coordinates: 52°40′33″N 2°10′33″W / 52.6757°N 2.1759°W / 52.6757; -2.1759
Gender	male

Brewood Grammar School was a boys' school in the village of Brewood in South Staffordshire, England.

Founded in the mid 15th century by the Bishop of Lichfield as a chantry school it was closed by the 1547 Act of Dissolution of Chantries. It was re-founded by Matthew Knightley and Sir Thomas Gifford in 1553 and survived as a grammar school until 1975 when its last headmaster, Roy Leafe, retired. It then became a mixed-sex middle school in 1977. As a 20th-century grammar school it took a number of boarders who lived at Wheaton Aston Hall, and taught agricultural science. The school had a small attached farm with cattle and poultry.

The original building does not survive. The earliest part of the remaining buildings, originally two houses donated to the school, dates from 1778. In 1799 these were enclosed in the school grounds by moving the road. They were rebuilt in 1856 as Rushall House (now Grade II listed^[1]) and used as a schoolroom and dormitories. In 1863 the headmaster's house was rebuilt, and further extensions to the school were made in 1898, 1926, 1935, and 1952.

The school is commemorated in a recent memorial window in the nearby parish church, St Mary and St Chad.

Notable staff

William Budworth (1699–1745) was headmaster here and failed to employ Samuel Johnson

References

↑ Historic England. "Grade II (271394)". Images of England.

Brewood, David Horovitz, 1988, ISBN 1-85421-011-4
Brewood and Penkridge in Old Photographs, Adrienne Whitehouse, 1988, ISBN 0-86299-519-1

Schools in Staffordshire (including Stoke-on-Trent)

Primary	St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

Middle	Oldfields Hall Middle School Windsor Park Middle School

Secondary	Abbot Beyne School Alleyne's Academy Biddulph High School Birches Head Academy Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Sports College Blessed William Howard Catholic School Blythe Bridge High School Cannock Chase High School Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School Chase Terrace Technology College The Cheadle Academy Cheslyn Hay Sport & Community High School Chesterton Community Sports College Clayton Hall Academy Codsall Community High School The Co-operative Academy of Stoke-on-Trent The de Ferrers Academy Discovery Academy Endon High School Erasmus Darwin Academy Excel Academy Fair Oak Academy The Friary School Great Wyrley High School Hagley Park Academy Haywood Academy JCB Academy John Taylor High School King Edward VI School, Lichfield King Edward VI High School, Stafford The King's Church of England School Kingsmead School Kinver High School Landau Forte Academy Amington Landau Forte Academy QEMS Leek High School Moorside High School Nether Stowe School Newcastle Academy Norton Canes High School Ormiston Horizon Academy Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy Ounsdale High School Paget High School Painsley Catholic College Paulet High School The Rawlett School St John Fisher Catholic College St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy St Peter's Academy St Thomas More Catholic Academy Sandon High School Sir Graham Balfour School Sir Thomas Boughey High School Stafford Manor High School Staffordshire University Academy Tamworth Enterprise College Thistley Hough Academy Thomas Alleyne's High School Trentham High School University Academy Kidsgrove Walton High School Weston Road Academy Westwood College Wilnecote High School Wolgarston High School Wolstanton High School

Grammar	St Joseph's College

Special	Abbey Hill School Blackfriars Academy The Meadows School Shenstone Lodge School

Further education	Burton & South Derbyshire College Buxton & Leek College Landau Forte Academy Tamworth Sixth Form Moorlands Sixth Form College Newcastle-under-Lyme College South Staffordshire College Stafford College Stafford Collegiate

Independent	Abbotsholme School Abbots Bromley School Denstone College Lichfield Cathedral School Newcastle-under-Lyme School Stafford Grammar School St Dominic's High School for Girls St Dominic's Priory School

Independent (preparatory)	St Joseph's Preparatory School Vernon Lodge Preparatory School Yarlet School

Former	Berry Hill High School and Sports College Brewood Grammar School Edial Hall School Longton High School Mitchell High School

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