| Established | 1685 |
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| Type | Voluntary aided school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headteacher | Mrs Elizabeth Sims |
| Chair of Governors | Mr Robert Moreland |
| Specialism | Arts (Operational) |
| Location | Kennington Oval Lambeth London SE11 5SR England |
| Local authority | Lambeth |
| DfE number | ???/5403 |
| DfE URN | 100640 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 533 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | blue and Black |
| Diocese | Lambeth |
| Website | Tenison's School |
Archbishop Tenison's C of E School, commonly known as Tenison's, is a Church of England boys secondary School located in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Tenison's is now an 11-18 voluntary aided, boys comprehensive school, part of the educational provision of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and the London Borough of Lambeth. Girls are admitted to the Sixth Form. Tenison's became a Specialist Arts College in 2003. The school caters for around 500 pupils, of whom 50 are in the Sixth Form. The School is located directly opposite The Oval cricket ground, home of Surrey County Cricket Club. Pupils are given the chance to train and play at the famous ground. The roof of the main school building is often used as a base for television cameras on match-days.
Thomas Tenison, an educational evangelist and later Archbishop of Canterbury, founded several schools in the late 17th and early 18th century. A boys' school now at the Oval was founded in 1685 in the crypt of St Martin's in the Fields and relocated by 1895 in Leicester Square on the site previously occupied by the Sabloniere Hotel. A girls' school was formally established in 1706 for 12 girls and in 1863 a new school building was erected at 18 Lambeth High Street. The girls school closed in 1961, when it amalgamated with Archbishop Temple's Boys School to form a mixed VA school. The building was used by Temple's as a first-year annex from 1968 to 1974, when Archbishop Temple's School closed. Archbishop Tenison founded another school in nearby Croydon in 1714.
It became a grammar school, then a comprehensive.
The badges of both the schools founded by Thomas Tenison are based on his personal coat of arms, which consist of the arms of the see of Canterbury impaled with the Tenison family arms. The former, placed on the dexter side of honour, are blazoned as: Azure, an archiepiscopal cross in pale or surmounted by a pall proper charged with four crosses patee fitchee sable. The arms of Tenison, placed on the sinister side of the escutcheon are blazoned as: Gules, a bend engrailed argent voided azure, between three leopard's faces or jessant-de-lys azure. In standard English: a red field bearing a white (or silver) diagonal band with scalloped edges, and a narrower blue band running down its centre. This lies between three gold heraldic lion's faces, each of which is pierced by a fleur-de-lys entering through the mouth.
These arms are a difference, or variant, of the mediaeval arms of the family of Denys of Siston, Gloucestershire, and may have been adopted by the Tenison family because its name signifies "Denys's or Denis's son". The arms were originally those of the Norman de Cantilupe family, whose feudal tenants the Denys family probably were in connection with Candleston Castle in Glamorgan. St Thomas Cantilupe(d.1282), bishop of Hereford, gave a reversed (i.e. upside down) version of the Cantilupe arms to the see of Hereford, which uses them to this day. A version of the Denys arms was also adopted by the family of the poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, not known to have been a descendant of Archbishop Thomas Tenison.
It gets well above average GCSE results.
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