46-509: Rossall is a settlement in Lancashire , England and a suburb of the market town of Fleetwood . It is situated on a coastal plain called The Fylde . Blackpool Tramway runs through Rossall, with two stations: Rossall School on Broadway and Rossall Square on South strand. Before the Norman conquest of England of 1066, the manor of Rossall was—as part of the ancient hundred of Amounderness —in
92-458: A boarding school to consider whether they are suited to the lifestyle. On 23 March 2022, a plane was forced to make an emergency landing on the school's field as a shortage of fuel meant the pilot was unable to complete the flight. Nobody was injured, and no students were at the school at the time. This was erected in 1867, under the reign of William Osborne, with the foundation stone being laid by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire . It
138-472: A company of Volunteer Riflemen in 1804 Rossall's is the oldest contingent continuously in existence and the one from which many other schools drew the inspiration of founding theirs. Other schools such as Eton College formed their corps a few months after Rossall. From 1890 to 1908 the corps was affiliated to the 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteers . The institution is still present in the school today with around 100 cadets currently enlisted. In recent years
184-472: Is a private day and boarding school in the United Kingdom for 0–18 year olds, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood , Lancashire . Rossall was founded in 1844 by St Vincent Beechey as a sister school to Marlborough College which had been founded the previous year. Its establishment was "to provide, at a moderate cost, for the sons of Clergymen and others, a classical, mathematical and general education of
230-604: Is also positioned 8th overall in the Anderson Scale of past performances in the competition. Rossall is also home to the Lawrence House Astronomy and Space Science Centre – the only centre dedicated solely to the teaching of astronomy . The project consists of the telescope in Rossall's Assheton Observatory as well as a building of its own containing a lecture theatre, classrooms and a portable planetarium. The telescope
276-479: Is believed to have been designed by Edward Graham Paley . It is clearly modelled on the entrance gates of the Oxbridge colleges and originally had large wooden doors which were locked at night; these have since been removed for improvements in access. In the 1860s a new school chapel was built to cope with the increasing number of students, the old chapel serving, as it does today, as the school library. The new chapel
322-503: Is located in the south-west of Fleetwood along the coast with Thornton-Cleveleys to the south. Rossall is in the Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency . Rossall ward is one of five local council wards in Fleetwood. An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to include part of Fleetwood with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 6,381. Rossall School is
368-441: Is made predominantly from brass and thus suffered minimal corrosion and damage. Most importantly the lens of the telescope survived unscathed allowing for restoration. This was carried out at first by several dedicated parents and governors of the school, amongst them Syd Little . Soon after the basic restoration ideas were raised for a larger project allowing the teaching of astronomy on a larger scale. After getting clearance from
414-520: Is of particular note – being 12 feet (3.7 m) long, 18 inches wide and dating from 1870. The objective diameter of the telescope is 6.5 inches and it has a focal length of f/13.5. The project has been funded by the Lawrence House Trust and predominantly run by Nick Lister, originally the head of design and technology at the school and now Astronomer in Residence. Lister is a fellow of
460-601: The Cambridge Review . Despite some financial difficulties as a result of fund embezzling by a bursar, by the end of the 1920s Rossall's academic results were amongst the best in the country with record numbers achieving scholarships to Oxbridge and attaining distinctions in the Higher Certificate examinations. During the world wars large numbers of Old Rossallians lost their lives in combat, 297 in World War I alone –
506-497: The Church of England . This was to be the first major Church of England school in the north of England and a sister school to Marlborough College which had opened the previous year. It was soon established that there was little hope of founding the girls' school and this idea was abandoned, with the boys' school pupil numbers reduced to 200. Consequently, Vantini's involvement with the scheme steadily dissipated, Rev. St. Vincent Beechey ,
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#1732863285759552-573: The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and was granted a royal charter on 21 October 1890. It is an 'all-through' school with a nursery , 'pre-prep', preparatory and senior school. Rossall's campus has a large array of facilities for extracurricular activities and the school is home to the Lawrence House Space Science and Astronomy Centre, the only facility of its type in the UK. Over
598-532: The North Euston Hotel in Fleetwood , Vantini opened his hotel expecting many visitors but few people arrived. To boost the number of visitors to Fleetwood and help his hotel and the local economy, Vantini opened two schools in the vicinity of Fleetwood, one for boys and another for girls, totalling 1,000 students. The early Victorian period was marked by high child mortality rates, and Vantini expected that in
644-559: The Royal Astronomical Society and was appointed as vice-president of the Association for Astronomy Education , where he succeeded Dr Robert Massey, who became president of the organisation. When initial assessments were being made for the feasibility of restoring the observatory, both the telescope and observatory were in a poor condition as a result of years of neglect and an arson attempt by some local children. The telescope
690-460: The 1830s, the house and estate was in the ownership of Edmund's descendant Peter Hesketh , High Sheriff of the County of Lancashire and MP for Preston , who later changed his name to (Sir) Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood. By 1844, Hesketh had run into serious financial difficulties. He had engaged Frederick Kemp as his agent and the two had considerable financial differences of opinion. Kemp borrowed against
736-481: The 1880s to 1900 to accommodate more students and to create further facilities such as the gym which still stands. In 1874 Rossall became the first Church of England school to play a Catholic school in an inter-school sports fixture, at cricket, leading Protestant newspapers to warn against such activities and advise Rossall parents to be wary of encroaching papism (the school in question was Stonyhurst College ). Two decades later, roughly one hundred O.R.s served in
782-500: The 1970s, in a bid to ensure the highest standards during a period of declining boarding, girls were allowed to enrol. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the school pushed on with a development programme and had royal visits including from the Queen in 1994 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its foundation. The school went through great financial difficulty at the turn of the millennium. Rossall has since had more investment than previously, with
828-584: The Boer War, nearly half of them winning distinctions or mentions in despatches . Seventeen old boys died in active service, all of whom are now commemorated in the stalls of the school chapel. Rossall was widely considered to be in top 30 public schools in the UK by the end of Queen Victoria 's reign also earning itself a place in the Public Schools Yearbook and the Public School News section of
874-518: The Country Houses of the North West , the 18th century hall was a "great rambling whitewashed house", with irregular wings. By the 19th century, it had five family bedrooms, nursery rooms, a drawing room, dining room, libraries and an organ room, as well as servant accommodation and service rooms. The grounds included a workshop, four stables, a shippon, a coach house, an ice house and a gazebo . By
920-596: The International Baccalaureate IB Diploma Programme for Sixth form students. Senior School students follow the British curriculum, whilst the Junior School has its own curriculum. There are 64 clubs and societies in operation at Rossall including the traditional rugby union , football , fives and hockey . There is a Croquet Club . As well as competing in sporting competitions around
966-576: The Rossall estate, married Roger Hesketh of North Meols and Tulketh Hall , bringing Rossall into the Hesketh family. The couple chose to live at Rossall and it is likely that Roger Hesketh built the hall that existed into the 20th century. Previous houses on the estate were said to have been eroded or swept away by the sea. A chart drawn for Hesketh in 1737 shows a ruined "Old Rossall" slightly north of Rossall Hall. According to John Martin Robinson in A Guide to
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#17328632857591012-503: The boarding houses including Maltese Cross having undergone varying degrees of refurbishment. The middle school now runs from years 7 to 9, one year longer than traditionally. As a part of the modernising of the school the IB was introduced as an alternative to A-Levels in 1998, being only the 3rd school in the UK to do so, and there is now an international boarding contingent. Rossall promotes relatively affordable private education in relation to
1058-443: The country, Rossall plays host to inter-school tournaments. These have included hockey, preparatory school rugby union and basketball. The fives competition in 2005 included Lancing College , Malvern College , Uppingham School and Shrewsbury School . Since 2016, Rossall School offers the "Elite Football Programme", a co-corricular program for boys and girls. The program was run in partnership with Fleetwood Town F.C. Following
1104-490: The development of Fleetwood, he agreed to lease his ancestral home of Rossall Hall to the school for 21 years, with the option of buying it for £7,000 after ten years. The Northern Church of England Boarding School, renamed Rossall College under the reign of William Osborne, opened on 22 August 1844, Initial problems were not unusual for boarding schools of the time, though Rossall nearly shut down in its infancy because of huge outbreaks of scarlet fever . The foundation stone to
1150-563: The end of the relationship of the schools partnership with Fleetwood Town in 2024 the School and the new partnership Club, Manchester City F.C. , announced their collaboration going forward in running the "Elite Football Programme". Rossall was the first school in the United Kingdom to form a Cadet Corps. It was founded in February 1860 when the threat of a French/Irish Catholic invasion was at its height. Although Rugby School claims to have raised
1196-404: The estate revenues to finance the expansion of Fleetwood, and Hesketh became over-leveraged. He was obliged to sell much of the estate, together with Rossall Hall itself. The Hall was taken over by Rev. St. Vincent Beechey and converted into a Church of England boarding school , designed as a Northern equivalent of Beechey's Marlborough College and later to become Rossall School . Rossall
1242-678: The government requisitioned the campus for several departments of the Office of Works , the Board of Education and the Ministry of Pensions . As a result, the school moved to Naworth Castle . The government departments put up prefabricated buildings and found other premises close by as soon as possible, and left in 1940. The school returned and took in a school from the south-east, as the Westminster School had found an alternative solution. The eventual choice
1288-402: The highest class, and to do all things necessary, incidental, or conducive to the attainment of the above objects." Along with Cheltenham , Lancing and Marlborough , Rossall was part of a flurry of expansion in public school education during the early Victorian period . Set in a 161-acre (0.65 km ) estate next to Rossall Beach, and now with about 900 students, Rossall is a member of
1334-475: The long term, the schools could be funded by a form of tontine insurance scheme, whereby the cost to educate children who reached their teenage years was offset by those who had died in infancy. Vantini called a meeting at the North Euston Hotel to discuss the foundation of the schools with local businessmen and clergy. It was decided that any school that was to be founded would be directly affiliated to
1380-566: The majority of whom are now commemorated in the extension memorial chapel. Rossall has a memorial plaque at St Georges Chapel by the Menin Gate in honour of its fallen, alongside schools such as Rugby , Eton and Harrow . 1,617 ORs fought in World War I, 300 of whom received war honours. Before the outbreak of the Second World War Rossall had made plans to accommodate Westminster School however these plans were scrapped when
1426-648: The most prominent school in Fleetwood., The school is a co-educational , independent , day and boarding school catering to ages 5 to 18. It was founded in 1844 on the site of Rossall Hall by Rev. St Vincent Beechey. Lancashire Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 455329212 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 06:54:45 GMT Rossall School Rossall School
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1472-575: The opportunity to gain internationally recognised BTEC First Diploma qualifications in Public Services and Music. Each BTEC First Diploma is the equivalent of 4 GCSEs, grade C – A*. Many notable people have studied at Rossall over the years. The school alumni society is called the Rossallian Club. The Rossallian Club has gatherings every year all over the UK and, with the advent of a large international boarding contingent in recent years, all over
1518-483: The parish priest of Fleetwood, took over. Beechey set about finding the funds required to set up such a school. Beechey got the financial support of Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood , The Earl of Derby as patron, the Duke of Devonshire as vice-president and John Bird Sumner , then Bishop of Chester and later Archbishop of Canterbury , as visitor. As a result of Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood's financial problems from over-investing in
1564-530: The possession of Earl Tostig , the brother of King Harold II . In the Domesday Book of 1086, the manor was listed as Rushale , and in later documents as Rossall (1212) and Roshale (1228). In 1086, the area of Rossall was assessed at two carucates of land. King John gave the estate to Dieulacres Abbey in Staffordshire in 1206. Later in the 13th century, the moiety of Little Bispham and Norbreck
1610-463: The rest of the UK – 80% of those who attend the school are the first in their family to attend an independent school and a large number of scholarships and bursaries are available. 2007 saw the return of the Rossall Summer School – developed to give children from outside the UK the opportunity to develop their English speaking skills as well as being a chance for those thinking of going to
1656-456: The school chapel, now the Sumner Library, was laid in 1848 by the first ever Bishop of Manchester , James Prince Lee – the diocese having only been created that same year. Rossall's swift and successful development can be seen by its inclusion in the book The Great Schools of England (1865). The current chapel was constructed in the 1860s and the school underwent further development from
1702-646: The sequestered property of the Roman Catholic Allens during the English Reformation ; the Fleetwood family who intermarried with the Heskeths and became the most recent owners of the site prior to the original loan of Rossall Hall for the opening of the school by their last representative, Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood ; and the Beechey Family for the founder of the school, St. Vincent Beechey . During
1748-647: The shooting team has excelled with notable victories in the Home Guard Cup and Loyal's Regimental Cup. The CCF at Rossall received the Queens colours on Tuesday 29 June 2010, to celebrate its 150th anniversary and to acknowledge its status as the oldest cadet corps in the UK. Through the Cadet Vocational Qualifications Organisation ( CVQO ) the School CCF offers cadets (aged 16–19) and above
1794-687: The summer of 2020 the Dining Hall was undergoing major renovations, for the first time after Queen Elizabeth II visited the school in 1994. The project was funded through the Rossall School Foundation. Renovations included a new colour scheme, which is now light blue and white. Stone from Rossall can be found in the cloisters of Canberra Grammar School along with stones from Eton, Westminster, St Paul's, Charterhouse, Uppingham, Clifton, Tonbridge, Shrewsbury, Sherborne, Wellington, Cheltenham, Repton and Radley. The school offers both A-levels and
1840-767: The world – the first ‘OR’ (Old Rossalian) meal in Germany took place in 2006. The school also has its own masonic lodge , founded in 1928, that meets three times a year at Freemasons' Hall in London . It is part of the Public School Lodges Council and is open to any Old Rossallian who wishes to join. Rossall alumni are among just nine schools to have won The Halford Hewitt golf tournament more than twice. These schools are (in order of victories): Charterhouse (16), Harrow (11), Eton (10), Tonbridge (6), Rugby (5), Watson's (4), Rossall (3), Shrewsbury (3), Merchiston (3). Rossall
1886-517: The years, Rossall has adapted itself to changing attitudes in education, and was the first school in the UK to have a Combined Cadet Force and one of the first to introduce the International Baccalaureate and host a dedicated international study centre on campus. The idea of founding a boarding school on the Fylde coast originates with a Corsican man named Zenon Vantini. As the owner of
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1932-709: Was added to the estate. The abbot of Dieulacres leased Rossall to George Allen, who was a relative of his. The Allens, a prominent Roman Catholic family, occupied the manor until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. Cardinal William Allen was born at Rossall in 1532. Dieulacres Abbey was dissolved in the 1530s and Rossall was sold to Thomas Fleetwood. Later, when George Allen's grandson Richard died, Thomas Fleetwood's son Edmund evicted Richard's widow and daughters, and they went to live with Richard's brother, Cardinal Allen. In 1733, Margaret Fleetwood, heiress to
1978-405: Was constructed from bricks encased in a weatherable coating that would dissolve away to leave it looking in the same condition as the rest of the square . The largest section of wood panelling behind the headmaster's table in the dining hall is made from an oak tree that grew in the back garden of George Mallory . It was claimed in 1944 that it was the largest school dining hall in the country, and
2024-565: Was described by F. A. M. Webster in his book Our Great Public Schools as, "one of the most splendid in the country." There are four coats of arms attached to the exterior of the dining hall to commemorate the various families associated with Rossall over the years: the Allen Family for the medieval and Renaissance owners of the site; the Hesketh Family for the Anglican family who acquired
2070-425: Was designed by Edward Graham Paley , extended by Robert Lorimer and includes carvings by Eric Gill . The chapel organ was designed by Harrison & Harrison . Rossall celebrated the chapel's 150th Anniversary on 1 April 2012. The original school dining hall burnt down in the 1920s. The replacement, the current dining hall, was designed by Sir Hubert Worthington . The design was not without fault however – it
2116-670: Was that of Alleyn's who had to be evacuated from London as a result of the risk of bombing. Another side effect of the war was that there was only one centenary dinner celebrating the 100th year of Rossall. It was conducted by Old Rossallians imprisoned in Changi Prison , a notorious POW camp in Singapore during the Japanese occupation . Benjamin Britten gave a concert in Big School in 1954. In
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