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Hipperholme Grammar School

The original school – which was to become Hipperholme Grammar School – is believed to have been founded in a chantry chapel at Coley in 1530.

The grammar school was founded on 27th August 1647 by an endowment in the will of Matthew Broadley on land and in farm buildings donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall.

There were legal & financial complications, but with the help of Captain John Hodgson of Coley Hall, the School eventually opened in 1661.

The school motto is

Doctrina fortior armis

In 1783, a new building was designed by Longbottom and probably Joseph Jagger, and this is now the hall of the present school.

In 1835, additions to the building included the gable surmounted by the bell turret.

In 1860, an advertisement said that

the School is free for boys of the township of Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse, except that each boy pays to the master £2 2/- yearly for the teaching of writing and arithmetic

In 1864, an advertisement said that the school offered

great educational advantages, at a moderate cost. There are no free scholars

In 1880, it was reconstituted as a first-grade public school and a new house was designed by J. F. Walsh for the headmaster with dormitories for pupils.

In 1906, two new wings were added by Walsh & Nicholas in Vernacular Revival style.

Stephen Ellis was one of the first trustees.

Masters have included

1672: Dr Samuel Threapland
1683-1697: Rev Thomas Heald
16??: Abraham Crowther
1730: Rev Nathan Sharpe
1761: Rev Robert Harrison
1779: Rev Richard Sutcliffe
1782-1835: Rev Richard Hudson
1835: Rev John Warburton
1861: Rev William Edensor Littlewood
1874: Rev F. Stork
1876: Rev G. A. Thompson
1890: Rev Henry Jackson Hardcastle Faulkner
1894: Frank William Lucas
1904: Gilbert Leonard Bretherton
1909: Rev Frederick Gard Fleay
190?: Rev George Thomas Jowett
1911-1915: Captain Maynard Percy Andrews
1916: William Stanley Booth
1928: J. W. Houseman
1960: J. M. Edwards
19??-1960: Mr Garside

Pupils and masters attended Lightcliffe Old Church.

Past pupils include

John Stanley Armitage John Raymond Berry Edgar Athelstan Boardall Newton Brooke Gary Cady Vincent Collier James Crossley Professor Sir Gordon Duff Danny and Richard McNamara of the band Embrace George Stanley Faber John Exley Greenwood Trevor Greenwood Frederick Haller Rev Charles Hoyle John Edmund Hoyle Courtney Stanhope William Kenny

Rev Samuel Knight Dr John Leftley Wilf Lunn Joseph Oddy Sir Robert Peel Reginald Peel Pohlmann Patrick Edward Robertshaw Professor Kenneth Robinson Norrison Cavendish Scatcherd Alphonse Sharp John Taylor Simpson Rev George Sowden Laurence Sterne Dr David Sturgeon Wilfred Sykes Sir Donald Thompson John William Tillotson Thomas Firth Turner

It is said that school time at the School was always 5 minutes fast, and the clock set accordingly.

It has been an independent grammar school since 1985.

The school arms include a balance [representing Matthew Broadley's work as Paymaster], 3 crosses [in memory of Matthew Broadley], and 3 lions [in memory of Samuel Sunderland].

See Brookfoot Corn Mill, Colonel Robert Howard Goldthorp, Hipperholme Grammar Junior School, Hipperholme Grammar School: War Memorial, Hipperholme Grammar School: Memorial Gateway, Hipperholme Grammar School: Badge, Hipperholme Grammar School: Song, Rev Hudson's Academy, Hipperholme, John Moore and Canon George Watkinson

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