Bloxham School
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| Motto |
Justorum semita lux splendens (The path of the just is a shining light) |
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| Established | 1853 (original foundation) 1860 (present foundation) |
| Type |
Independent Boarding school Public school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Paul Sanderson |
| Chaplain | Revd. Dr. Gerard Moate |
| Chairman | N J E Bankes |
| Founder | Philip Reginald Egerton |
| Location |
Bloxham Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 4PE England Coordinates: 52°01′21″N 1°22′24″W / 52.0225°N 1.3733°W |
| DfE URN | 123275 Tables |
| Students | 417 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Six senior, one junior |
| Colours | Black & White |
| Publication | The Bloxhamist |
| Former pupils | Old Bloxhamists |
| Affiliation |
Woodard Corporation HMC |
| School Hymn |
For All the Saints A Shining Light |
| Website | www |
Bloxham School, also called All Saints' School, is an independent co-educational day and boarding school of the British public school tradition, located in the village of Bloxham, three miles (5 km) from the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. The present school was founded in 1860 by the Philip Reginald Egerton and has since become a member of the Woodard Corporation. The current headmaster is Paul Sanderson, who took over from Mark Allbrook in 2013. The school has approximately 420 pupils.
Founded as a school of the Oxford Movement, Bloxham is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school has been described as 'one of Britain's best smaller public schools.'
The original school on the site in the north of the village of Bloxham was founded in 1853 by J W Hewett, a local Anglo-Catholic curate. The school was supported by Samuel Wilberforce who commissioned the diocesan architect, George Edmund Street, to draw up plans for the new school buildings. Street's design was described by the The Gentleman's Magazine as the 'most beautiful modern Gothic buildings ever devoted in England to a scholastic purpose'. The foundation stone was blessed by Wilberforce on 7 June 1855. Hewett's plans were for a school for 100 commoners, 40 scholars and an unspecified number of choristers. In February 1855 a trust for the school was established, naming it All Saints' Grammar School, with the intent of providing for 'the liberal education of the sons of the clergy, gentry, Naval, Military and professional men and others'. Hewett contributed his own extensive library and the bulk of the funds for the ambitious building project. By mid-1856, Hewett was bankrupt and the school had failed to attract sufficient numbers of boys, who were expected to pay unusually high fees. Hewett's school, with several dozen pupils and incomplete buildings, was closed in April 1857. The school trust approached Nathaniel Woodard for help, but he was uninterested in buying or supporting the school.
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