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Impington Village College is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Impington in the English county of Cambridgeshire. The buildings of 1938–1939 by Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry are Grade I listed.
Impington Village College opened its doors in 1939 within days of the declaration of World War II. It was the fourth Village College to be established in Cambridgeshire by the visionary educationalist Henry Morris, who firmly believed that both formal and informal education should be a lifelong process, a vision that carved an innovative new ...
23 gen 2021 · The remarkable Grade 1 Listed Building of Impington Village College was born from the meeting of two visionary thinkers. Founder of the Bauhaus movement Walter Gropius fled Nazi Germany in 1934, when he came to London to join an architectural partnership with Maxwell Fry.
6 lug 2024 · In the late 19th century and the 20th residents of Impington shared the social amenities of Histon, many activities after 1939 taking place at Impington village college. The village Feast was said in 1982 not to have been held for many years.
14 giu 2024 · There was no village school in Impington until the mid 19th century, but Thomas Wiborough, vicar 1639-69, kept a private school in his house after the Restoration, and in 1818 some poor children were taught at Histon charity school.
On this page we explore Henry Morris’s vision of the village college (for more see Henry Morris) though the design and experience of Impington Village College. Contents : introduction · viewing Impington village college · key design elements · local groups · the success of the village colleges · further reading and references ...
The Village College Impington was opened today – a week later than originally intended owing to the outbreak of war. The senior school serves the following villages: Chittering, Waterbeach, Landbeach, Milton, Histon, Impington, Girton, Madingley, Dry Drayton and Coton.
