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Bishop Wordsworth personally donated £3000 (about £35,000 today), which was used to purchase a portion of land in the Cathedral Close and build the original school buildings. After Bishop Wordsworth's death in 1911, the school was renamed to Bishop Wordsworth's School to continue the lasting tradition of quality education that he had started.
The Bishop’s School, as it was then called, opened on its current site on the 16th April 1890 with 45 boys. Girls were welcomed in 1902 and the school was coeducational until 1927, when the girls departed to their new school on Stratford Road. Originally there were boarders, but since the Second World War we have catered for day pupils only.
We now have around 1200 pupils across the school, about 400 of whom are in the Sixth Form. In Years 7-11 we cater for boys only, but since September 2020 we have welcomed girls to our coeducational sixth; approximately 30% of Years 12 and 13 are female students. The legacy of Bishop John Wordsworth and our heritage and traditions are something ...
The school was known at the time as the Bishop’s School, being renamed the year after the Bishop’s death as "Bishop Wordsworth’s School". John Wordsworth was married twice, first to Susan Esther Coxe (1870) who died at the palace in 1894 and then to Mary Anne Frances Williams (1896). There were four sons and two daughters to this second ...
15 apr 2024 · Bishop Wordsworth’s School is a boys' grammar school in Salisbury, Wiltshire. It was originally known as The Bishop's School when it was founded by the Bishop of Salisbury in 1890. Girls have been welcomed into the sixth form since 2020. The school occupies a unique position in Salisbury’s iconic medieval Cathedral Close.
20 lug 2023 · The Bishop’s School was founded in 1890, by John Wordsworth, the Bishop of Salisbury. After his death, the school was renamed Bishop Wordsworth’s School and remains known as such, to this day.
