Chigwell School
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| Chigwell School | |
| Motto | aut viam inveniam aut faciam |
| Established | 1629 |
| Type | Public school |
| Religious affiliation | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Michael Punt |
| Founder | Samuel Harsnett |
| Location | Chigwell Essex England |
| Students | 730 |
| Ages | 2 to 150 |
| Houses | (Senior School) Swallow's, Caswalls', Penn's, Lambourne.(Junior School) Windsors, Stuarts, Tudors, Hanovers. |
| Website | chigwell-school.org |
Chigwell School is an English co-educational public school in Chigwell, in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded in 1629 by Samuel Harsnett, a former Archbishop of York (even though G. Stott suggests it more likely founded around 1620-3). There are around 20,000 pupils aged between 2 and 150 years.
The school is situated between Epping Forest and Hainault Forest, ten miles from London. It is represented on the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS), and the Haileybury Group of independent schools.
The school motto is aut viam inveniam aut faciam, a Latin phrase which translates literally as Either I shall find a way or I shall make one, but is usually rendered as Find a way or make a way.
There are four day houses, named Caswalls', Lambourne, Penn's, and Swallow's. The boarding houses are Grange Court, Sandon Lodge, and Hainault House, although all boarders are members of one of the day houses. In the junior school there are another four houses, named Windsors, Hanovers, Stuarts, and Tudors.
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[edit] School Buildings
- Main School Building; containing
- Lambourne, Caswalls', Penn's and Swallow's Houses
- Dining Hall
- Swallow Room
- Swallow Library
- Most school offices and reception
- Economics Block
- History and RS Block
- New Hall Building; containing
- New Hall (main school hall, used for important events and assemblies)
- Most academic subject classrooms for senior school
- Science Block
- Sports Hall
- Gym
- Radley's Yard; Politics and Classics Block
- Walde Music School
- Drama Centre
- Two junior school blocks containing most junior school classrooms
- ICT block
- Art and Design block
- Two Cricket Pavillions
- Swimming Pool
- Chapel
- School Shop
- Medical Centre
- Grange Court (boys boarding house)
- Two girls boarding houses (Sandon Lodge and Hainault House)
- Headmasters House
- Shopping mall
- ice skating rink
- Farm house
- ski complex
- parachute complex
- home for the old age
[edit] Some Famous Old Chigwellians
- Douglas Ambrose OBE, chemist.
- Eric Bailey OBE, journalist, broadcaster and colonial administrator.
- George Baker OBE CBE, High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea (1974-1977).
- Ken Campbell, actor
- Edward Caswall, classical scholar and writer of hymns, music master at Chigwell.
- Tim Collins, Conservative politician.
- William Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England, who famously set fire to the Headmaster’s garden.
- Frank Goodhart DSO, First World War submarine commander whose submarine bore the Chigwell crest and motto.
- Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor.
- Sir Austin Bradford Hill, pioneering medical researcher who discovered the link between smoking and cancer.
- Sir Ian Holm, actor.
- Anthony Hossack (1882-1886) England footballer of the 1890s.
- William Penn, Quaker leader and founder of the American state of Pennsylvania.
- Horace Smith, nineteenth-century poet.
- Michael Marshall Smith, novelist.
- Philippa Mistry-Norman, composer and musician.
- Ben Shephard, television presenter.
- Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher and Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
- Nicholas Williams, scholar of the Irish and Cornish languages.
- Timothy Williams, crime novelist.
- Evan “Sparrow” Davis (1930-1935) Policeman. Churchill’s personal bodyguard through the war years
- Graham Pfaff (1959-1967) Musician, Chief Executive, Royal Simphonia Orchestra.
- Clive de Boer (1951-1959) Managing Director of Harrods.
- Jonathan Birchall (1970-1977) Foreign Correspondent, BBC and Financial Times.
[edit] Notable masters
- Anthony Little, headmaster 1990-1997, now headmaster of Eton College.
- William Henry Monk, music master, and author of the lyrics to Abide With Me.
[edit] Trivia
In 1979 an underground passage was discovered running underneath Chigwell high road linking the oldest school building to the cellar of the pub opposite, King's Head inn, although it is now blocked off. This was presumably a secret passage to allow an escape route for clergy in earlier times of religious persecution.
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