More information : (SP 502 749) Rugby School (NAT) (1)
Rugby School was founded as a free grammar school by Lawrence
Sheriff, a grocer of London and a native of Rugby, in 1567. It
was originally established on the site of the house in which the
founder was born and which is now represented by the eight most
eastern of the present Almshouses. (SP 57 NW 5). In 1749, the
school buildings having become very dilapidated, the manor house
and 8 acres of land were purchased. The house was altered to adapt
it for school purposes, a schoolroom was erected, and the school
was removed to its present site in 1750. Additions were subsequently made and then between 1809 and 1813 the whole school
was rebuilt in an Elizabethan style. Since then further additions
and alterations have taken place. The school chapel was built
in 1820 but entirely reconstructed in 1871. (2)
Brief history of the school, including its administration etc.(3).
Manorial descent.(4).
The Manor House, part at least of which was probably built at the
time of Charles I, stood on the site of the present schoolhouse,
and became the headmaster's residence. It was then the property
of a Mrs Pennington, and had formerly belonged to Mr. Burnaby,
the lord of the manor. It was advertised for sale in 1740 as the
Manor House. (5)
The School House noted by Authority 5 to be on the site of the
former Manor House is situated at SP 5030 7495. (6)
5397 LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET (South Side)
New Quad Buildings at Rugby School
(Formerly listed as Rugby School
Additions)
SP 5075 SW 1/13 11.10.49.
SP 5074 NW 2/13
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1867-85, by William Butterfield in a polychromatic Gothic style.
Red, black and yellow brick with stone dressings. Mainly 3
storeys, partly 2 storeys. Buttresses with offsets, casement
windows in groups with arched heads of different forms. Octagonal
staircase tower in north-west angle has tall pointed roof.
Prominent chimneys with rows of joined shafts. Welsh slated
roofs behind parapets.
New and Old Quad Buildings, School House and Doctor's Wall at
Rugby School form a group with the Chapel and War Memorial
Chapel at Rugby School, Dunchurch Road.
1.
5397 LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET (South Side)
Old Quad Buildings at Rugby School
(Formerly listed as Rugby Old School)
SP 5074 NW 2/12 11.10.49.
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2.
1809-13 by Henry Hakewill in Tudor style, possibly incorporating
some walls of 1748 school building by William Hiorn of Warwick.
South cloister added circa 1814, Headmasters School over gateway
circa 1830. Hollow square plan with low north-east angle tower
over wide arched entrance, 1st floor oriel bay window. South-east
tower with tall archway, central turret with canted angles,
battlements, cupola resembling that of 1748 building. 2 and 3
storeys, sash and casement windows. South front full height
projecting bays on left and right of centre. Octagonal turrets
either end of right hand bay.
New and Old Quad Buildings, School House and Doctor's Wall at
Rugby School form a group with the Chapel and War Memorial Chapel
at Rugby School, Dunchurch Road.
1.
5397 LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET (South Side)
School House at Rugby School
(Formerly listed as Rugby Old School)
SP 5074 NW 2/83 11.10.49.
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2.
1809-13 by Henry Hakewill in Tudor style. Brown brick, stone
dressings. Residence of many headmasters of the school, including
Dr Arnold. Early home of Matthew Arnold. Irregular L plan with
octagonal tower above entrance arch in angle. Wide stone steps
up to recessed porch flanked by buttresses. Windows mainly sashes.
Battlemented parapet. 2 and 3 storeys. Graded partly for
historical interest.
New and Old Quad Buildings, School House and Doctor's Wall at
Rugby School form a group with the Chapel and War Memorial Chapel
at Rugby School, Dunchurch Road.
5397 DUNCHURCH ROAD (East Side)
Chapel at Rugby School (Formerly
listed in Lawrence Sheriff Street)
SP 5074 NW 2/66 11.10.49.
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2.
1872 by William Butterfield in red brick with stone dressings.
Tall nave, chancel and wide transepts. Low narrow aisles rebuilt
1897. South-east tower has octagonal belfry with pyramidal roof.
Interior with elaborate painted roof contains canopied stalls
to west end, 1882 mosaic to east end apse, C16 stained glass
from Normandy and Netherlands, C19 stained glass by Willement,
Hardman and Morris.
Monuments with effigies to Dr James 1824 by Chantry, Dr Wool 1833
by R Westmacott the Younger, Dr Arnold 1844 by John Thomas, Dean
Stanley 1884 by Boehm. Many memorial tablets to famous Rugbeians,
including Arthur Hugh Clough, Rupert Brooke, etc. Graded partly
for historical interest.
The Chapel and War Memorial Chapel at Rugby School form a group
with New and Old Quad Buildings, School House and Doctor's Wall at
Rugby School Lawrence Sheriff Street.
1.
5397 DUNCHURCH ROAD (East Side)
War Memorial Chapel at Rugby
School (Formerly listed in Lawrence
Sheriff Street)
SP 5074 NW 2/67 11.10.49.
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1922 by Sir Charles Nicholson in Decorated style. Ashlar, Greek
cross plan. Stone reredos. Anti-chapel on west and 2 small chapels
south-west and north-west. A dignified, sensitive design.
The Chapel and War Memorial Chapel at Rugby School form a group
with New and Old Quad Buildings, School House and Doctor's Wall
at Rugby School Lawrence Sheriff Street.
1.
5397 LAWRENCE SHERIFF STREET (South
Side)
Doctor's Wall at Rugby School
SP 5074 NW 2/84
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2.
Low red brick wall with buttresses separating School House garden
from The Close. Granite tablet inscribed: "This stone commemorates
the exploit of William Webb Ellis who with a fine disregard for
the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball
in his arms and ran with it thus originating the distinctive
feature of the Rugby Game. AD 1823". Included for historical
interest.
5397 DUNCHURCH ROAD (East Side)
Gymnasium at Rugby School
SP 5074 NW 2/31
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2.
1872 by William Butterfield in Gothic style. Red brick with stone
dressings and darker brick decoration. Gabled roof. East front
porch with Welsh slated hipped roof backed by gable with large
central chimney flanked by 3 light pointed arched windows, with
mullions and transoms. (7)
(SP 5022 7496) Chapel (NAT) (SP 5019 7493) Memorial Chapel (NAT) (SP 5027 7497) Old Quad (NAT) (SP 5029 7495) School House (NAT) (8)
No building of before 1800 remains. The earliest work is by Henry
Hakewill, who built the Old Buildings in 1809-13, the Headmaster's
House c.1830, and the Arnold Library in 1842. William Butterfield
was commissioned in 1867 to design New Quad, the western
continuation of Hakewill's range. It is of red, yellow and black
brick, with fleuron-friezes. The composition is ruthlessly
varied, having no regard for symmetry or regularity. The south
side of New Quad is formed by the Chapel dating from 1872, with
aisles by Jackson, 1897. (9)
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