Sandroyd School

Sandroyd School
Main building
Address
Map
Rushmore Park

Tollard Royal
,
Wiltshire
,
SP5 5QD

England
Coordinates50°57′54″N 2°04′02″W / 50.9650°N 2.0673°W / 50.9650; -2.0673
Information
TypeIndependent school
Co-educational
Day and boarding school
MottoNiti Est Nitere (Latin)
To strive is to shine
Established1880
FounderLouis Herbert Wellesley Wesley
Department for Education URN126521 Tables
Chairman of the GovernorsRhodri Thomas
HeadmasterAlastair Speers[1]
Age2 to 13[1]
EnrolmentApprox. 230 [1]
HousesWylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon
Colour(s)   
Websitewww.sandroyd.org Edit this at Wikidata

Sandroyd School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland.[2] Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley.

In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2023, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' across all areas.[3]

Location[edit]

The school is in the south of Berwick St John parish, near the village of Tollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.

History[edit]

Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at Sandroyd House, Fairmile, in Cobham, Surrey in 1880.[4] He was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley.[5]

In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of the Pitt-Rivers family. The house lies in the centre of Cranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by the architect Philip Webb (1831–1915), the friend of William Morris, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore for General Pitt Rivers twenty years later.[6]

In the 1960s the school purchased the freehold of the school site.[6] In 1995 the school started to accept day pupils, and in 2004 it became coeducational.[4]

Nursery and pre-prep school[edit]

Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery which was opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2023.

List of headmasters[edit]

  • 1880–1898: L. H. Wellesley Wesley
  • 1898–1920: C. P. Wilson
  • 1920–1931: W. M. Hornby
  • 1931–1955: H. ff. Ozanne
  • 1955–1963: K. B. Buckland
  • 1963–1981: D. C. Howes
  • 1981–1982: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
  • 1982–1994: D. J. Cann
  • 1994–1995: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
  • 1995–2003: M. J. Hatch
  • 2003–2016: M. J. S. Harris
  • 2016–: A. B. Speers

Old Sandroydians[edit]

See also People educated at Sandroyd School
Anthony Eden, Prime Minister
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury

Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include:[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Sandroyd School - 126521". Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Sandroyd School, Salisbury". The Good Schools Guide. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Sandroyd School – ISI – Independent Schools Inspectorate".
  4. ^ a b "Sandroyd - 1888 to Present Day". Sandroyd School. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  5. ^ The Sunday Magazine (Strahan & Company, 1869), p. 263 Archived 20 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b Historic England. "Rushmore Park (1000542)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Old Sandroydians". Sandroyd School. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.

External links[edit]

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