Emanuel School

Emanuel School
Motto Pour Bien Desirer
(French: The Noble Aim)
Established 1594
Type Public school (Emanuel school)
Religion Christianity
Headmaster M. D. Hanley-Browne, MA
Chair of Governors F. R. Abbott Esq
Founder Lady Dacre, Elizabeth I
Location Battersea Rise
London
SW11 1HS
England
Local authority Wandsworth
DfE number 212/6292
Students 775 (2014)
Gender Coeducational
Ages 10–18
Houses Clyde, Drake, Howe, Lyons, Marlborough, Nelson, Rodney, Wellington
Colours

Navy blue and gold

         
Publication The Portcullis
Former pupils Old Emanuels (OEs)
Website emanuel.org.uk

Emanuel School is a co-educational public school in Battersea, south-west London. The school was founded in 1594 by Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre and Queen Elizabeth I and occupies a 12-acre site near to Clapham Junction railway station.

The school is part of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and at the start of the 2014–15 academic year had 760 pupils between the ages of ten and eighteen, paying fees of £16,404 per year.[1] It teaches the GCSE and A-Level syllabuses.

History

Emanuel School is one of five schools administered by the United Westminster Schools' Foundation. It came into being by the will of Anne, Lady Dacre, dated 1594. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Sackville by his wife Winifred, a daughter of Sir John Bruges (otherwise Brydges), Lord Mayor of London in 1520-21. Her brother was Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. She married Gregory Fiennes of Herstmonceaux and Chelsea, 10th Baron Dacre, in November 1558. He died on 25 September 1594 and she followed him, dying on 14 May (buried 15 May) 1595.

Her epitaph states:

Faeminei lux clara chori, pia, casta, pudica, aegis subsidium, pauperibusque decus.

Lady Dacre wrote that one of the main aims of the Foundation should be "for the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so that they might better live in time to come by their honest labour." With Lady Dacre's benefaction in 1594, Emanuel Hospital (almshouses and school), as it was first called, began. The children wore long brown tunics, rather similar in cut to those still worn by pupils at Christ's Hospital. Thanks to the interest of Queen Elizabeth I, cousin to Lady Dacre, a charter was drawn up, and the school and almshouses were established on a site at Tothill Fields, Westminster.[2] Mention is made of the Hospital and similar foundations in an undated letter written by Daniel Defoe, entitled A Scheme for a Royal Palace in the Place of White-Hall.[3]

In 1883, the school sought larger, newer buildings for the children; and the boy boarders, as they all then were, moved to the present buildings on the edge of Wandsworth Common.

Headmasters and headmistresses

Chaplains

Emanuel is an Anglican foundation with the Chapel situated in the main building above the library. Daily Chapel services are led by the Chaplain with regular Holy Communion services and musical concerts. Confirmation is available with the Chaplain who holds regular confirmation classes for pupils, whilst the Chapel is open for the use of pupils, teachers, staff and parents every day. Paintings of Moses and Aaron that formed part of the altarpiece of St. Benet Fink are now held in Chapel.

Academic life

The school is split into academic faculties as follows:

English

Mathematics

Sport and Physical Education

Creative Arts

Humanities

Modern Languages

Science

Notable Old Emanuels

References

  1. ↑ "Emanuel School fees and charges". Emanuel School. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Anne SACKVILLE (B. Dacre of the South)". Tudorplace.com.ar. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  3. ↑ "Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 26 February 2011.

Coordinates: 51°27′24″N 0°10′24″W / 51.4566°N 0.1734°W / 51.4566; -0.1734

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