Fitzmaurice Grammar School

Fitzmaurice Grammar School

The original building of Fitzmaurice Grammar School, currently in residential use as Fitzmaurice Place
Established 1897
Closed 1980
Type Grammar school
Founder Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice
Location Junction Road
Bradford-on-Avon
Wiltshire
Local authority Wiltshire
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18

The Fitzmaurice Grammar School was a Grammar School in Bradford on Avon, England.[1]. The school opened as the County School in 1897[2] with financial support from Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice. It was renamed Fitzmaurice Grammar School in 1936 after the death of Lord Fitzmaurice. The grammar school was closed in 1980 and merged with Trinity Secondary modern school [3] to form the comprehensive school called St Laurence School.

A primary school, known since 1985 as the Fitzmaurice Primary School[4], uses some of the former classrooms of the grammar school.

Notable former pupils

Alumni of the Grammar school include:

References

  1. ^ Bradford-on-Avon's Schools: The story of education in a small Wiltshire town by Keith Berry, Ex Libris Press, 1998 ISBN 0948578963
  2. ^ http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getschool.php?id=315
  3. ^ http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getschool.php?id=314
  4. ^ http://www.fitzmauriceschool.info/