90-553: The Trusty Servant is an emblematic figure in a painting at Winchester College and the name of the college's alumni magazine. The wall-painting called The Trusty Servant was painted by John Hoskins in 1579. It was reworked by William Cave in 1809, giving the painting now on display there. It hangs outside the college's kitchen. The American author Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896) described "the time-honoured Hircocervus , or picture of 'the Trusty-servant,' which hangs near
180-620: A relief sculpture of The Trusty Servant as it appears in the painting. The Trusty Servant is the name of the Winchester College alumni magazine. There is a Trusty Servant Inn at Minstead in the New Forest . Winchester College Winchester College is an English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day attendees, in Winchester , Hampshire , England. It
270-409: A much-contested will, procured the conversion of his bequest for a collegiate church of seven priests and seven almsmen at Caistor, Norfolk, into one for seven fellows and seven poor scholars at Magdalen. In the same year the college took possession of the alien priory of Sele, in what is now Upper Beeding , Sussex, the proceedings for the suppression of which had been going on since 1469. The new, now
360-440: A neuter noun. A "Domum Dinner" is held at the end of the summer term for leavers. It was formerly restricted to those former scholars of Winchester who were also scholars of New College, and distinguished guests. Until the reforms of the 19th century, there were three successive Election Dinners held during Election Week, culminating in a Domum Ball. Originally these festivities occurred around Whitsun, as suggested by references in
450-446: A year. The full number of 70 scholars was not filled up until Waynflete's last year as Provost, 1446–1447 ( Eton Audit Roll ). So greatly did Waynflete ingratiate himself with Henry that when Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, Henry's uncle, died on 11 April 1447, the king wrote to the chapter of Winchester, instructing them to elect Waynflete as bishop. On 12 April he was given the custody of the temporalities , between 15 and 17 April he
540-589: Is a boys' boarding house at Eton College . An annual memorial service, known as the Waynflete Obit, is held in Winchester Cathedral on the anniversary of his death. The choir for the occasion is formed from members of the Waynflete Singers , who are named after the bishop. Waynflete projects are research projects undertaken by sixth formers at Magdalen College School, Oxford . Awards are given for
630-451: Is an emblematic figure in a painting at Winchester College, that serves as the school's unofficial mascot and the name of its alumni magazine. A painting of The Trusty Servant and accompanying verses both devised by the poet John Hoskins in 1579 hangs outside the college kitchen. The current version was painted by William Cave the Younger in 1809. The painting depicts a mythical creature with
720-626: Is based on the River Itchen . The club is affiliated to British Rowing (boat code WIN) and was twice winner of the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup (in 1949 and 1954) at the Henley Royal Regatta . Rivalry — particularly sporting — between Winchester and Eton has existed for centuries. Pupils of the school in their second year are currently required to serve in the college's Combined Cadet Force . The organisation
810-617: Is called the Master in College. Collegemen wear black gowns, following the founding traditions of the school. Collegemen enjoy certain privileges compared to the Commoners, such as having open fires and being allowed to walk across Meads, the walled sports field outside School. Every pupil at Winchester, apart from the Scholars, lives in a boarding house , chosen or allocated when applying to Winchester. It
900-403: Is entitled "Domum" and is sung at the end of the summer term, known as Cloister Time. The origin of the song is unknown; it was described as "an old tradition" in the 1773 History and Antiquities of Winchester . The traditional tune was composed by John Reading . A new tune, by Malcolm Archer , was officially adopted by the school in about 2007. According to legend, the text was written in
990-409: Is here that he studies, eats and sleeps. Each house is presided over by a housemaster (who takes on the role in addition to teaching duties), assisted by house tutors. Houses compete against each other in school sports. Each house has an official name, usually based on the family name of the first housemaster, which is used mainly as a postal address. Each house also has an informal name, usually based on
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#17328483219091080-523: Is improbable. Neither college claimed in his lifetime that he was one of its former students. However, that Waynflete was at the University of Oxford , and probably a scholar at one of the grammar schools there, before passing on to the higher faculties, is shown by a letter of the Chancellor addressed to him when Provost of Eton College , which speaks of the university as his mother who brought him forth into
1170-471: Is played in the spring term with a competition between the school's houses; it is largely managed by the boys. A distinctive Winchester version of fives resembles Rugby fives but with a buttress on the court. The buttress enables a skilful player to cause the ball to ricochet in an unexpected direction. The school has an active rowing club called the Winchester College Boat Club which
1260-581: Is to ensure a broad education. From year 9, pupils study for at least nine GCSE and IGCSEs . Every pupil studies English, mathematics, Latin, French or German, and at least two sciences at this level, as well as "Div". Pupils then study three A-levels , "Div", and an Extended Project Qualification . Winchester College is particularly known for its academic rigour. In 2023 at A-Level, 79.6% of student results were graded A*-A, with 42.4% at A*. At GCSE, 88.4% of results were graded 7 or higher, with 73.1% of grades being 8 or 9, and 50.5% of all grades achieving
1350-563: The Duke of York encamped near Dartford, Waynflete with three others was sent from the King's camp at Blackheath to propose terms, which were accepted. Edward, Prince of Wales , was born on 13 October 1453 and was baptised by Waynflete the next day. That year Waynflete acquired the reversion of the manor of Stanswick, Berks, from Lady Danvers for Magdalen Hall. The king became insane in 1454. The Chancellor, John Kemp , Archbishop of Canterbury, died during
1440-544: The French wars without the Warden's leave. The William Waynflete who was presented to the vicarage of Skendleby , Lincs, by the Priory of Bardney on 14 June 1430, may also have been our Waynflete. There was, however, another William Waynflete, who was instituted rector of Wraxall, Somerset , on 17 May 1433 and was dead when his successor was appointed on 18 November 1436. A successor to
1530-807: The Makin Review by the Church of England and a review by the Titus Trust (which succeeded the Iwerne Trust). On 12 November 2024, following publication of the Makin Review, Justin Welby announced his intention to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury; this report was critical of the Church's handling of allegations of abuse committed by the barrister John Smyth, aided by Doggart, and was also critical of Welby's failure to investigate
1620-645: The New College of St Mary Magdalen . Meanwhile, Waynflete himself had been advanced to the highest office in the state, the Chancellorship, the seals being delivered to him on 11 October 1456 by the King in the priory of Coventry in the presence of the Duke of York, apparently as a person acceptable to both parties. On 27 October 1457 he took part in the trial and condemnation for heresy of Reginald Pecock , Bishop of Chichester, who had been ordained subdeacon and deacon on
1710-518: The 15th century and George Ridding in the 19th century. Former pupils are known as Old Wykehamists . Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham , Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to both Edward III and Richard II , in part because of the lack of trained priests following the Black Death . Winchester was to act as a feeder school to New College , also founded by Wykeham. According to its 1382 charter and final statutes (1400),
1800-470: The 17th century by a pupil who was confined for misconduct during the Whitsun holidays. (In one account, he was tied to a pillar.) It is said that he carved the words on the bark of a tree, which was thereafter called "Domum Tree", and cast himself into Logie (the river running through the school grounds). There is still a "Domum Cottage" in that area. The author of the text apparently wrongly treated domum as
1890-578: The 1874 refurbishment. In 1924, a War Cloister was constructed; it now serves as a memorial of the Wykehamists killed in the two World Wars. Visitors may tour areas such as Chamber Court, the Chapel, College Hall, the Cloisters, School and Museum, for a fee. The seventy scholars live in the original buildings, known as "College". The scholars are known as "Collegemen", and the schoolmaster in charge of them
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#17328483219091980-591: The Ass, his Master's wrath will bear; Swiftness in Errand, the Stagges feet declare; Loaded his left Hand, apt to Labour saith; The Vest his Neatness; Open hand his Faith; Girt with his Sword, his Shield upon his Arm, Himself and Master he'll protect from Harm. In 2014 Winchester College commissioned a medal by Old Wykehamist Anthony Smith to be awarded to staff in recognition of "Long And Loyal Service". The medal features
2070-472: The William Waynflete at the King's Hall was admitted on 3 April 1434. In 1429, Waynflete became headmaster of Winchester College, a position which he held until 1441. During this time, Waynflete was appointed by Bishop Beaufort to the mastership of St Mary Magdalen's Hospital, a leper hospital on St Giles Hill, just outside the city of Winchester. The first recorded headmaster after the foundation of
2160-549: The William Waynflete who was admitted a "scholar" of the King's Hall, Cambridge , on 6 March 1428, and was described as LL.B. when receiving letters of protection on 13 July 1429 to enable him to accompany Robert FitzHugh , Warden of the hall, on an embassy to Rome. The "scholars" of the King's Hall were what are now called Fellows , as may be seen by the appointment to the hall on 3 April 1360 of Nicholas of Drayton, B.C.L., and John Kent, B.A., in place of two scholars who had gone off to
2250-400: The addition of boarding houses for "commoners", paying pupils, as opposed to the scholars who continued to live in the medieval College. At the turn of the 20th century, a Music School, "Museum" (art school), and Science School, all architect-designed, were added. A hall big enough for the enlarged school, New Hall, was opened in 1961, accommodating the oak panelling removed from the Chapel in
2340-641: The allegations. In 2005, Winchester College was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools found guilty of running an unlawful price-fixing cartel by the Office of Fair Trading . As a penalty, the schools paid for a trust fund to benefit the affected pupils. Winchester College, like Eton, received a fifty per cent reduction in its penalty in return for its full cooperation. In 2017 Winchester College suspended its Head of Art History for providing students with information about questions on an upcoming public exam. The headmaster of Winchester confirmed that
2430-417: The area includes St Catherine's Hill . The medieval buildings, representing most of the original foundation from the school's opening in 1394, include Outer Gate and Outer Court, Chamber Court, the chapel, and the Cloisters. These are built in flint with limestone facings and slate roofs. The chapel retains its original wooden fan-vaulted ceiling, designed by Hugh Herland, carpenter to Richard II . Little of
2520-453: The bishop's favour in parliament the following December. This also suggests that he was not regarded as an enemy by the Yorkists, even though he was a personal favourite of Henry's. A general charter of confirmation to him and his successors of the property and rights of the bishopric of Winchester on 1 July 1462 points in the same direction. It is certain that Waynflete took an active part in
2610-412: The boarding houses) was originally used only on laundry tags. Winchester is considered one of the most prestigious schools in the world. It has its own entrance examination, and does not use Common Entrance like other major public schools . Those wishing to enter a Commoner House make their arrangements with the relevant housemaster some two years before sitting the exam, usually sitting a test set by
2700-416: The body of a man, the head of a pig, with its snout closed with a padlock, the ears of an ass, the feet of a stag, and tools in his left hand. The verses are on the virtues that pupils of the college were supposed to have. The college arms are shown in the background of the painting. A notion is a specialised term peculiar to Winchester College. The word notion is also used to describe traditions unique to
2790-570: The chapel, at Eton: his glazier supplied the windows, and he contracted on 15 August 1475 for the rood-loft to be made on one side "like to the rode bite" in Bishop Wykeham's college at Winchester, and on the other like that of the college of St Thomas of Acre in London. In 1479 he built the ante-chapel at the west end of the chapel, of Headington stone . In 1474 Waynflete, being the principal executor of Sir John Fastolf , who died in 1459 leaving
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2880-733: The college endows four professorial fellowships in science in his honour, which are collectively known as the Waynflete Professorships . There is also a Waynflete School in Portland, Maine , which is named after him. There is a road named Waynflete Road in his honour in the Barton area of Headington, Oxford, one named Waynflete Place in Winchester , a Waynflete Close in Bishop's Waltham , and also Waynflete Street, in Earlsfield, London. "Waynflete"
2970-409: The college, John Melton, had been presented by William of Wykeham to the mastership of this hospital in 1393 shortly before his retirement. On 3 July 1441 Henry VI went for a weekend visit to Winchester College to see the school for himself. Here he seems to have been so much impressed with Waynflete that by the autumn Waynflete had ceased to be headmaster of Winchester. In October he was dining in
3060-524: The college, where he passed the night, and in July 1483 he received Richard III there in even greater state. In 1484 Waynflete founded another Magdalen College School in his birth town of Wainfleet All Saints , Lincolnshire as a satellite feeder school for Magdalen College, Oxford. The building is now used as a library, with a museum upstairs. On 27 April 1486, Waynflete, like Wykeham, made his will at their favourite manor, now Bishop's Waltham Palace . He gave
3150-433: The double foundation, formed the model for Eton College and King's College, Cambridge , some 50 years later. Eton and Winchester formed a close partnership at that time. At first only a small number of pupils other than scholars were admitted; by the 15th century the school had around 100 pupils in total, nominally the 70 scholars, 16 choirboys known as "quiristers", and the rest "commoners". Demand for places for commoners
3240-519: The early modern period, under Henry, Edward, Elizabeth and James, royal visits were accompanied by presentations of Latin and a small amount of Greek occasional poetry, composed by the pupils. Elizabeth also granted an exemption to allow Winchester, Eton and elsewhere to conduct their religious services in Latin, to help pupils to improve their skills in the language. From the 1860s, ten boarding houses, each for up to sixty pupils, were added, greatly increasing
3330-433: The example of Wykeham and his royal patron in becoming a college founder. On 6 May 1448 he obtained licence in mortmain and on 20 August founded at Oxford for the extirpation of heresies and errors, the increase of the clerical order and the adornment of holy mother church, a perpetual hall, called Seint Marie Maudeleyn Halle, for study in sacred theology and philosophy, to consist of a president and 50 scholars. Its site
3420-403: The first extant "Eton Audit Roll 1444–1445" as magister informator , and was probably such from May 1442. If Waynflete was headmaster from October 1441 to May 1442, his duties must have been little more than nominal. As Provost, Waynflete procured the exemption of the college from archidiaconal authority on 2 May, and made the contract for completion of the carpenter's work on the eastern side of
3510-407: The hall there as a guest, and at Christmas 1442 he received a royal livery, five yards of violet cloth, as provost of Eton. Under the influence of Archbishop Chichele (who had himself founded two colleges in imitation of Wykeham); Thomas Bekynton , the king's secretary and privy seal ; and other Wykehamists, Henry VI , on 11 October 1440, founded, in imitation of Winchester College, a college in
3600-455: The headmaster George Ridding , "tunding", beatings given by a prefect (a senior pupil), using a ground-ash across the shoulders, were still permitted. The matter became a national scandal, known as " the Tunding Row ", when "an overzealous Senior Commoner Prefect" beat a pupil for refusing to attend a notions test. Ridding made matters worse by trying to defend the action. He eventually limited
3690-640: The heresies of John Wycliffe and Pecock. Waynflete presided as Chancellor at the parliament at Coventry in November 1459 (the Parliament of Devils ), which attainted the Yorkist leaders after their defeat at Ludlow . Because of this, three days before the Yorkist attack at Northampton, he delivered the great seal to King Henry VI in his tent near Diapre Abbey, a nunnery near Northampton, on 7 July 1460. Whether, as alleged by some, Waynflete fled and hid himself during
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3780-467: The housemaster and an interview. Those applying to College do not take the normal entrance examination but instead sit a separate, harder, exam called "Election": successful candidates may obtain, according to their performance, a scholarship, an exhibition or a Headmaster's nomination to join a Commoner House. Admission to College was historically coupled to remission of fees, but this has ceased; instead, means-tested bursaries ranging from 5% to 100% of
3870-465: The king endowed the college with some £500 a year taken from the alien priories : almost exactly the amount of the original endowment of Winchester. Though reckoned first headmaster of Eton, there is no definite evidence that Waynflete acted as such. The school building was not begun until May 1442. William Westbury left New College, Oxford in May 1442, transferring himself to the king's service. He appears in
3960-441: The kitchen, and which emblematically sets forth those virtues in domestics, of which we Americans know nothing. It is a figure, part man, part porker, part deer, and part donkey; with a padlock on his mouth, and various other symbols in his hands and about his person, the whole signifying a most valuable character." The painting of The Trusty Servant had a didactic function: it is accompanied by allegorical verses that associate
4050-494: The light of knowledge and nourished him with the alimony of all the sciences. Waynflete is probably the William Barbour who was ordained as an acolyte by Bishop Fleming of Lincoln on 21 April 1420 and subdeacon on 21 January 1421; and as William Barbour, otherwise Waynflete of Spalding , was ordained deacon on 18 March 1421, and priest on 21 January 1426, with entitlement from Spalding Priory. Waynflete may have been
4140-503: The model for Eton College and King's College, Cambridge , some 50 years later. Pupils of the school have appeared in many works of fiction : the school itself rather less often. The figure of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series Yes Minister is among the best-known Old Wykehamists in fiction. As with other prominent public schools, a locomotive of the Southern Railway V Class
4230-422: The name or nickname of an early housemaster. Each house also has a letter, in the order of their founding, to act as an abbreviation, especially on laundry tags. A member of a house is described by the informal name of the house with "-ite" suffixed, as "a Furleyite", "a Toyeite", "a Cookite" and so on. College does not have an informal name, although the abbreviation Coll is sometimes used; "X" (meaning, not one of
4320-400: The old, buildings at Magdalen were begun the same year, the foundation-stone being laid in the middle of the high altar on 5 May 1474. Licences from 1477 to authorized additions to the endowment. On 23 August 1480, the college being completed, the great west window being contracted to be made after the fashion of that at All Souls' College, a new president, Richard Mayew , fellow of New College,
4410-561: The original medieval glass, designed by Thomas Glazier , survives, as it was scattered in the 1820s, but some is now housed in Thurburn's Chantry, at the back of the chapel, and in Fromond's Chantry, inside the Cloisters. The "School" building was constructed in 1683–1687 in Wren style , with a statue of the founder above the door by C. G. Cibber . The school was greatly extended in the 19th century with
4500-550: The parish church of Eton by Windsor (not far from his own birthplace) called the King's College of the Blessed Mary of Eton by Windsor, as a sort of first-fruits of his taking the government on himself. The college was to consist of a provost, 10 priests, 6 choristers, 70 poor and needy scholars, 25 almsmen and a magister informator (later "headmaster") to teach (Latin) grammar to the foundation scholars and to all others coming from any part of England, at no cost. On 5 March 1440/41 ,
4590-499: The period covered by the battle of Wakefield and Edward's first parliament in 1461 is very doubtful. A testimonial to his fidelity written by Henry to the Pope on 8 November 1460 was written while Henry was in Yorkist hands. Complaints of wrongful exaction of manorial rights laid before Edward IV himself in August 1461 by the tenants of the episcopal manor of East Meon , Hampshire, were decided in
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#17328483219094680-423: The prefects' power to beat, and forbade notions tests as a "disgraceful innovation". In the 1970s and 80s, the college allowed a Christian Forum to operate on college grounds which was later described as "cult-like", and which gave access to pupils to a man who carried out sadomasochistic abuse on several of them. The perpetrator, John Smyth , was a leader of the evangelical Christian Iwerne camps where abuse
4770-474: The principal executor of his will for that purpose, and if there was any variance between the executors, he was to determine it. From 1448 to 1450 £3336 was spent on the church, of which Waynflete with the Marquis of Suffolk and the Bishop of Salisbury contributed £100 or £1,000 according to interpretation. The troubles which began in 1450 put a stop to the work. Waynflete, as bishop, lost no time in following
4860-671: The proceedings of the Privy Council . With a view to an ampler site for his college, Waynflete. Retrieved 5 July 1456 a grant of the Hospital of St John the Baptist outside the east gate at Oxford and on 15 July licence to found a college there. Having obtained a papal bull , he founded it by deed of 12 June 1458, converting the hospital into a college with a president and six fellows, to which college two days later Magdalen Hall surrendered itself and its possessions, its members being incorporated into
4950-558: The quadrangle on 30 November 1443. On 21 December 1443 Waynflete was sworn to observe the statutes by Bishop Bekynton and the Earl of Suffolk, the king's commissioners, and he himself administered the oath to the other members of the foundation: then only five fellows and eleven scholars over 15 years of age. (Younger scholars were not required to take an oath.) It is said that he took half the Fellows and scholars of Winchester College to Eton to start
5040-566: The request of the War Office that Senior Cadets be given appropriate training for the war effort, almost every student became involved in the Corps, though it was never explicitly compulsory. In the Second World War, it was renamed as "The Junior Training Corps", though its function was still to prepare boys for Officer responsibilities. Montgomery remarked on inspecting the Corps in 1946 that there
5130-453: The restoration of Eton College. Edward had annexed it to St George's, Windsor in 1463, depriving it of a large part of its possessions. In the earliest Audit Rolls after the restoration of the college in 1467 there are many entries of visits of Provost Westbury to the lord of Winchester, which in January 1468–69 were for beginning the work of the church and providing money for them. Why a pardon
5220-472: The same day and by the same bishop as Waynflete himself. Only Pecock's books and not the heretic were burnt. As the heresy consisted chiefly in defending the clergy on grounds of reason instead of authority, the proceeding does not show any great enlightenment on Waynflete's part. It must have been at this time that an addition was made by Waynflete to the Eton College statutes, compelling the Fellows to forswear
5310-513: The same pecuniary bequests to Winchester and New Colleges as to his own college of Magdalen, but the latter he made residuary devisee of all his lands. Waynflete died on 11 August 1486 at Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire. He was buried in the Magdalen Chapel at Winchester Cathedral . The Waynflete Building at Magdalen College, Oxford , a hall of residence , commemorates Bishop Waynflete, and
5400-948: The scholarship process. Manners makyth man – Motto of Winchester College, New College, Oxford , and the founder of the two colleges, William of Wykeham The Latin grace before meals in College goes: Benedic nobis, Domine Deus, Atque iis donis tuis, Quae de tua largitate Sumus Sumpturi, Per Jesum Christum, Dominum nostrum. Amen. Bless us, Lord God, And those Thy gifts, Of which through Thy bounty We are about to partake, Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. The Latin grace after meals in College goes: Agimus tibi gratias, Omnipotens Deus, Pro his et universis donis tuis, Quae de tua largitate Accepimus, Qui vivis et regnas, Et es Deus, In saecula saeculorum. Amen. We return thanks to Thee, Almighty God, For these and all Thy gifts, Which through They bounty We have received Who livest and reigneth, And art God, World without end. Amen. The school song
5490-540: The school fee are provided, according to need. From 2022, Winchester admitted girls into the 6th form (year 12) as day pupils, with girls boarding from 2024. For 2023/24, the fee is £49,152 per annum (£16,384 per term) for boarding pupils and £36,369 per annum (£12,123 per term) for day pupils. In addition to normal lessons, all boys throughout the school are required to attend a class called Division (known as "Div") which explores parts of history, literature, and politics that do not lead to external examinations; its purpose
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#17328483219095580-886: The school had treated the matter "very seriously" and that no boy was responsible for the "exam irregularity". The information was widely distributed, resulting in their papers being disallowed. William Waynflete William Waynflete ( c. 1398 – 11 August 1486), born William Patten , was Headmaster of Winchester College (1429–1441), Provost of Eton College (1442–1447), Bishop of Winchester (1447–1486) and Lord Chancellor of England (1456–1460). He founded Magdalen College, Oxford , and three subsidiary schools, namely Magdalen College School in Oxford , Magdalen College School, Brackley in Northamptonshire and Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire . Waynflete
5670-479: The school is called in Latin Collegium Sanctae Mariae prope Wintoniam ("St Mary's College, near Winchester"), or Collegium Beatae Mariae Wintoniensis prope Winton ("The College of the Blessed Mary of Winchester, near Winchester"). The first 70 "poor scholars" entered the school in 1394. In the early 15th century the specific requirement was that scholars come from families where the income
5760-401: The school there. However, only five scholars and perhaps one commoner (pupil not on the foundation) left Winchester for Eton in 1443, probably in July, just before the election. Three of them were admitted scholars of King's College, Cambridge on 19 July. That college, by its second charter of 10 July 1443, had been placed in the same relation to Eton that New College bore to Winchester: i.e. it
5850-468: The school's capacity. By 2020, the number of pupils had risen to 690. From 2022, the school has accepted day pupils in the Sixth Form, including girls. The college consists of an assemblage of buildings from medieval times to the present day. There are 94 listed buildings , set in grounds of some 250 acres, of which 100 acres are water meadows, 52 acres are playing fields, and 11 acres are formal gardens;
5940-469: The school's policy. Winchester offers extensive opportunities for musical development, with two-thirds of pupils playing at least one instrument. The school has a music school and numerous practice rooms, and a variety of choirs, ensembles, and orchestras. The chapel choir has existed since the school's foundation. Music and choral scholarships fund free tuition for candidates proficient in multiple instruments at grade 6 level or above. The Trusty Servant
6030-638: The school. An example of a notion is "toytime", meaning homework, from the notion "toys", a wooden cubicle that serves as a pupil's workspace in a communal room, known as "mugging hall" in Commoner Houses or a "chamber" in College. Since the foundation, Winchester College has had numerous words and phrases directly associated with it, including its motto, its graces, and a prayer. A grace is read before and after every lunch and formal meal in College Hall. Two separate graces are traditionally sung during Election,
6120-760: The servant's various animal parts with distinctive virtues that the students of Winchester College were meant to follow. Effigiem servi si vis spectare probati, Quisquis es, haec oculos pascat imago tuos. Porcinum os quocunque cibo jejunia sedat: Haec sera, consilium ne fiat, arcta premit. Dat patientem asinus dominis jurgantibus aurem; Cervus habet celeres ire, redire, pedes. Laeva docet multum tot rebus onusta laborem; Vestis munditiem, dextera aperta fidem. Accinctus gladio, clypeo munitus; et inde Vel se, vel Dominum, quo tueatur, habet. A Trusty Servant's Portrait would you see, This Emblematic Figure well Survey. The Porker's Snout not Nice in diet shows; The Padlock Shut, no Secrets he'll disclose; Patient
6210-492: The sitting of parliament, presided over by the Duke of York. Commissioners, headed by Waynflete, were therefore sent to Henry to ask the king to name a new Chancellor, apparently intending that Waynflete should be named. But no answer could be extracted from the king, and after some delay Lord Salisbury took the seals. During York's regency, both before and after the First Battle of St Albans , Waynflete took an active part in
6300-424: The song to early summer such as "See the year, the meadow, smiling" and "Now the swallow seeks her dwelling". Winchester's approach to education was influential on later schools. It was unusual in the medieval period in giving education to boys aged 12–18, as universities would accept students within this age range. The age range, the double foundation with New College, Oxford,, and the approach to discipline formed
6390-401: The top grade of 9. In the same year, 17% of pupils secured places at Oxbridge, while notable US destinations included Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, and Chicago. Between 2010 and 2018, an average of 33% of leavers obtained places at Oxford or Cambridge . Winchester College has its own game, Winchester College football (also known as "Win: Co: Fo:" or "Winkies"), played only at Winchester. It
6480-453: Was "latent leadership in all ranks". In 1948, the "Junior Training Corps" became known as the "Combined Cadet Force" (CCF) which incorporated RAF and RN sections. In 1963, "Alternative Service Activities" were introduced for boys who did not want to join the CCF. Pupils were made eligible to opt out of the CCF at the end of their second year after starting at the beginning of the year: this is still
6570-473: Was added in the 17th century. An art school ("museum"), science school, and music school were added at the turn of the 20th century. A war cloister was built as a memorial in 1924. The school has maintained traditions including its mascot, the Trusty Servant ; a set of " notions " forming a sort of private language; and a school song, Domum . Its headmasters have included the bishops William Waynflete in
6660-477: Was also reported to have taken place. He was assisted in this by former Winchester pupil Simon Doggart . The college and the Iwerne Trust became aware of these allegations in 1982, but neither reported them to the police. Smyth was warned off and moved to Zimbabwe and then South Africa where abuse continued. An independent review into the abuse, commissioned by the college, was published in January 2022, alongside
6750-523: Was born in Wainfleet in Lincolnshire (whence his surname) in about 1398. He was the eldest son of Richard Patten (alias Barbour), a merchant. His mother was Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, Cheshire . He had a younger brother named John, who later became the dean of Chichester . It has been suggested that Waynflete attended Winchester College and New College, Oxford , but this
6840-501: Was due to some disturbances at Winchester where one of Cade's quarters was sent after his execution. But it is more likely, that it was some Yorkist attack on him in progress in the papal court. To meet this, he next day appointed 19 proctors to act for him. In the end result nothing disturbed Waynflete's peaceable possession of the see: so that with the archbishop of Canterbury he was able to receive Henry VI when he came to Canterbury on pilgrimage on 2 August 1451. When in November
6930-447: Was elected, and on 10 May provided to the see by a papal bull. On 13 July 1447 he was consecrated in Eton church, when the Warden and Fellows and others of his old college gave him a horse at a cost of 10 marks (£6 13s 4d), and one mark (13s 4d) to the boys. Subsequent visits to Winchester inspired Henry with the idea of rebuilding Eton church on cathedral dimensions. Waynflete was assigned as
7020-500: Was enthroned in Winchester Cathedral in the presence of the king; and, probably partly for his sake, parliament was held there in June and July 1449, when the king frequently attended the college chapel, Waynflete officiating. When Jack Cade's rebellion broke out in 1450 Waynflete was employed with Archbishop Stafford, the Chancellor, to negotiate with the rebels at St Margaret's Church, Southwark , close to Winchester House. A full pardon
7110-515: Was established at the gates of the college to be, like Eton, a grammar school free of tuition fees for all comers, under a master and usher, the first master being John Ankywyll , with a salary of £10 a year, the same as at Winchester and Eton. The renewal of interest in classical literature was shown in the prohibition of the study of sophistry by any scholar under the age of eighteen, unless he had been pronounced proficient in grammaticals. On 22 September 1481 Waynflete received Edward IV in state at
7200-491: Was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 as a feeder school for New College, Oxford , and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission . The school has begun a transition to become co-educational , and has accepted male and female day pupils from September 2022, having previously been a boys' boarding school for over 600 years. The school
7290-583: Was founded in 1860 as "The Winchester College Rifle Volunteer Corps" by various boys in their top year as a result of the perceived threat of Napoleon III after the Orsini plot , and remained entirely autonomous until it was taken over by the Second Master in 1868. It was enrolled as a Cadet Corps in the 1st Hants Volunteer Battalion. In 1908, the Officer Training Corps was established, and by 1914, through
7380-416: Was founded to provide an education for 70 scholars. Gradually numbers rose, a choir of 16 "quiristers" being added alongside paying pupils known as "commoners". Numbers expanded greatly in the 1860s with the addition of ten boarding houses. The scholars continue to live in the school's medieval buildings, which consist of two courtyards, a chapel, and a cloisters. A Wren -style classroom building named "School"
7470-468: Was granted to Waynflete on 1 February 1469 does not appear. On the restoration of Henry VI on 5 October 1470 Waynflete welcomed him on his release from the Tower of London . This necessitated a new pardon, granted a month after Edward's reinstatement on 30 May 1471, and a loan to the king of 2000 marks (£1333 6s 8d). In the years 1471–1472 to 1474 Waynflete was largely engaged in completing the church, now called
7560-467: Was high, and though at first restricted, numbers gradually rose. As the college was a religious as well as educational establishment, it was threatened with closure during Henry VIII's reign. A statute to this effect was drawn up in 1545, which was only halted by his death. Edward VI swiftly reversed direction. Edward made provision for worship and Bible readings to be made in English rather than Latin. In
7650-435: Was installed on 23 August 1480, and statutes were promulgated. The statutes were for the most part a replica of those of New College, members of which were, equally with members of Magdalen, declared to be eligible for the presidency. They provided for a head and 70 scholars, but the latter were divided into 40 fellows and 30 scholars called demies , because their commons were half those of the fellows. Magdalen College School
7740-533: Was less than five marks sterling (£3 6s 8d) per annum ; in comparison, the contemporary reasonable living for a yeoman was £5 per annum . Other innovations at Winchester included enforcing discipline through the pupils themselves, using prefects . Discipline was in any case meant to be less harsh than was common in medieval schools, at least as the statutes read. Winchester was also unusual in giving education to boys aged 12-18, as universities would accept students within this age range. These features, including
7830-600: Was named after Winchester College. The second of the class, No. 901 Winchester was constructed by Southern at the nearby Eastleigh Works ; it entered service in 1930. The headmasters of Winchester College from the 14th century onwards are: Current pupils of Winchester College are known as Wykehamists, in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham; former pupils are known as Old Wykehamists , or amongst themselves as Old Woks. Fictional Old Wykehamists appear in over 50 novels, starting with Tobias Smollett 's eponymous Peregrine Pickle in 1751. In 1872, under
7920-492: Was not that of the present college, but that of two earlier halls called Bostar Hall and Hare Hall, where the Examination Schools now are. Thirteen M.A.s and seven bachelors, besides the president, John Hornley, B.D., were named in the charter. The dedication to St Mary Magdalen was no doubt derived from the hospital at Winchester of which the founder had been Master. On St Wolstan 's Day, 19 January 1448/49 , Waynflete
8010-410: Was promised, but on 1 August Waynflete was one of the special commissioners to try the rebels. On 7 May 1451 Waynflete, from le peynted chambre in his manor house at Southwark, asserting that his bishopric was canonically obtained and that he laboured under no disqualification, but feared some grievous attempt against himself and his see, appealed to the protection of the pope. It is suggested that this
8100-410: Was to be recruited entirely from Eton. The chief part of Waynflete's duties as Provost was the financing and completion of the buildings and establishment. The number of scholars was considerably increased by an election of 25 new foundation scholars on 26 September 1444. The college's annual income was then £946, of which the king contributed £120 and Waynflete £18, or more than half his stipend of £30
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