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  Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gloucester Cathedral, in the north of the city near the river, originates in the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter in 681.
Gloucester was incorporated by King Richard III in 1483, the town being made a county in itself.
Gloucester gained notoriety in 1994 with the arrest of Fred West and his wife Rose West for the abduction and murder of more than a dozen young women between 1967 and 1987, including one of their daughters.
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 The Crypt School, Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Crypt School is a grammar school for boys in the city of Gloucester, England, founded in 1539 by John and Joan Cooke.
The Crypt School is one of the Specialist Science Schools in Gloucester, which reflects the school's achievements in the scientific field as well as its investment in facilities for all sciences (including Mathematics, Geology and ICT etc.).
The school is currently the oldest post of education in the city of Gloucester, and is the pride of the City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Crypt_School,_Gloucester   (363 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Gloucester, England
Gloucester is a city in south-west England, close to the Welsh border.
Gloucester Cathedral, in the north of the city near the river, originates in the foundation of an abbey dedicated to St Peter in 681.
There are three endowed schools: the College school, refounded by Henry VIII of England as part of the cathedral establishment; the school of St Mary de Crypt, founded by Dame Joan Cooke in the same reign; and Sir Thomas Rich[?]'s Blue Coat Hospital for boys (1666).
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/gl/Gloucester%2C_England   (871 words)

  
 A Brief History of Gloucester
Gloucester, it was said, ranked 10th in among the towns of England for wealth.
Gloucester was strategically important in the 12th and 13th centuries because there was frequent warfare between the Welsh and the English.
Gloucester suffered severely in the civil war between king and parliament, which lasted from 1642 to 1646.
www.localhistories.org /gloucester.html   (1770 words)

  
 GENUKI: Gloucester, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
Gloucester is situated on the banks of the Severn, and is surrounded by a large and fertile district.
The most ancient parts are the crypt, the chapels surrounding the choir, and the lower part of the nave, built in the 11th century.
Gloucester has been represented in parliament since the 23rd of Edward I. At a very early period it was constituted a county in itself; it is also the head of a Poor-law Union, and of new County Court and registration districts.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/GLS/Gloucester/Gaz1868.html   (1319 words)

  
 George Whitefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born on December 16, 1714 at the Bell Inn, Gloucester, England, and died in Newburyport, Massachusetts on September 30, 1770.
He was educated at the Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke College, Oxford.
Later the society meeting at the second Kingswood School at Kingswood, a town on the eastern edge of Bristol, was also called Whitefield's Tabernacle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Whitfield   (1094 words)

  
 Founder's Trail
The first school used the family house of Sir Thomas Rich but then it was known as The Blue Coat Hospital.
School lunches were provided in Friars Orchard where the concrete building at the rear of Gloscat stands today.
Robert Raikes was one of the founders of the Sunday School movement.
www.strs.org.uk /school_life/founders_trail.html   (870 words)

  
 Preface to the online release, October 2006
Schools and charitable institutions affect countless lives, making it appropriate that their founders should always have been well represented in the dictionary.
By the fifteenth century, as Nicholas Orme shows in his new schools feature article, such munificence was no longer confined to nobles and bishops, but was also the work of lawyers and knights, often acting together with their wives, and this trend continued in the sixteenth century and afterwards.
As with the school founders, these biographies are accompanied by a new feature essay, ‘Lives in service’, surveying the dictionary's coverage of historically significant servants.
www.oup.com /oxforddnb/info/prelims/title/preface   (1855 words)

  
 Living Gloucester - Gloucester Journal
In 1722 when the first Hanoverian King, George 1 had been on the throne for eight years, The Gloucester Journal made its appearance at a time when the city probably had a population of about 7,500.
The role he played in the formation of Sunday Schools may be somewhat unclear but there is little doubt he did much to publicise the scheme.
He in turn was followed by his two sons, Alexander and David.Because of the Stamp Tax and other costs the price of The Journal rose to 7d but in 1836 with the reduction of the tax it went down to 5d and there was a further reduction to 4d in 1855.
www.livinggloucester.co.uk /made/newspapers/gloucester_journal   (502 words)

  
 King's School, Gloucester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Williams' entry to the College School is recorded in the School Admissions Register begun by headmaster Maurice Wheeler as having entered the school in June 1755 at the age of eight: "Johannes Henricus Williams Annor:8 - Johannis Williams de Civit:Gloc:Arm:filius".
As the school is unlikely to have a 1st XV composed entirely of over 17s, it is proposed that G.K.S.S. should field a team against a special Headmaster's Invitation side, which will include as many as possible of the current 1st XV.
Douglas Pett was Sacrist at Gloucester Cathedral from 1954 to 1958.
www.thekingsschool.co.uk /gkss/may05.php   (4847 words)

  
 Restore and repair damaged photo / photographs, photo digital retouching, enhancement & manipulation services.
Following the death of my mother a school photograph of my father's school - Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester was discovered.
Crypt School did not have that particular photo in their collection.
The school which was founded in 1539 now has another part of its history, I have a quality picture and am very pleased.
www.borderpics.co.uk /restoration03.htm   (334 words)

  
 Church Architecture: Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire
The crypt is provided with altars and chapels and does not seem to have been constructed simply to house relics.
The nave of the Abbey Church at Gloucester is the area where most of the experimentation took place, and this is a general trend that can be seen in other churches such as Tewkesbury and Exeter.
Gloucester remained an important city from the Roman period due to its trade links, river location and its natural resources such as wool, timber and iron ore. It was an important centre for Mercian rulers, and later Norman rulers as well.
www.britannia.com /church/studies/glosarch.html   (2116 words)

  
 Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of Liverpool's important early schools was The Liverpool Blue Coat School; founded in 1708 as a charitable school, it continues today.
Historic grammar schools, such as the Liverpool Institute High School and Liverpool Collegiate, closed in the 1980s are still remembered as centres of academic excellence.
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, founded to address some of the problems created by trade, continues today as a post-graduate school in the University of Liverpool and is one of only two institutions internationally that house the de facto standard anti-venom repository
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool   (3889 words)

  
 Robert Raikes - Founder of the first Sunday School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born to Robert and Mary Raikes in 1736, Robert Raikes was baptised at St. Mary de Crypt (still there in Southgate St.) and educated at the Crypt School (the authors old School) and later on at Kings School which can still be found by the Cathedral.
The gardeners wife told him that it was even worse on Sunday when the street was full of children cursing and swearing and spending their time in noise and riot.Most of these children were employed in the pin making industry and would have worked six days a week for very long hours.
The local children that attended his Sunday School attended his burial in St. Mary de Lode church and were each given 1 shilling and a large piece of Mr.
www.softdata.co.uk /gloucester/robert.htm   (492 words)

  
 GENUKI: Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Stuart has also recorded the Inscriptions on Central Technical School, Gloucester, War Memorial, which commemorates former pupils of the school who died during the Second World War.
The story of the Siege of Gloucester, including photographs of the 350th anniversary of its reenactment in September 1993, by Richard Derrick.
Gloucester Docks and the Sharpness Canal - Past, Present and Future.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/GLS/Gloucester/index.html   (759 words)

  
 ‘The Future Is Wild’ at the Crypt School
The Crypt School is a 11-18 boys grammar school with a mixed sixth form in Gloucester.
Others, such as John Stringer (educational consultant for FIW series) thanked the school and the pupils in particularly, and was very impressed by the standard of the work achieved in only 8 days.
The Crypt school is in the process of forming international links with two schools, using FIW as a common bridge.
www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk /Article.aspa?PageId=218852&NodeId=0   (980 words)

  
 Crypt School - home
Through the aims and ethos of the Crypt School, you will find that we are a school that cares for each individual.
Citizenship concerns relationships with the wider world and is a statutory part of the Crypt School curriculum.
The standard of school sport is very high, and the school has been represented at national level in a variety of activities.
www.cryptschool.org   (253 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Gloucestershire | Education future debated
A total of 13 secondary schools in Gloucester, and all the county's sixth forms, are affected by what is being billed as the biggest shake-up in education since comprehensives were introduced.
Under the review, sixth form provision at the smallest schools could end, and a new college could be created in Gloucester Docks, or linked to Gloscat.
The Crypt School in Gloucester, which dates to 1539, looks certain to close, or be merged with Ribston High School.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3312391.stm   (218 words)

  
 Virtual Gloucester Brunswick Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This fine old Church is now in a pleasant spot right in the centre of the city of Gloucester.
The fifteenth century nave contains an early renaissance style pulpit from which George Whitfield preached his first sermon in 1736.In the north transept are 16th century brasses to Alderman John Cooke and his wife, founders of the Crypt School.
The Virtual Gloucester site is produced by local people who are proud of their city.
www.softdata.co.uk /gloucester/decrypt.htm   (200 words)

  
 L'ÉCOLE DE CRYPTE, GLOUCESTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Une école de grammaire de garçons dans la ville de Gloucester, fondée en 1539 par John et Joan Cooke.
L'école originale faisait partie d'église de St Mary de Crypt dans la rue de Southgate et la classe peut encore être vue là.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.faktis.com /wiki/fr/l%c9/L%C9cole%20De%20Crypte%2C%20Gloucester.htm   (145 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chapel
Under the high altar of Chartres cathedral is the chapel of St-Lubin, bounded on the west by a piece of the Gallo-Roman wall of the fortress of the Carnutenses, and here, it is believed, the first Christians of Chartres, who were allowed to erect a chapel against the wall itself, worshipped.
At Gloucester there are three stories of chapels, one above the other, the crypt and the triforium containing altars exactly corresponding with those of the ground level.
At Gloucester the Lady chapel is furnished with two galleries (with chantry chapels below) for the singing of "pricksong"; each is provided with a broad stone desk for the necessary books, thus differing from the choir where such accommodation was unusual and unnecessary, but few books being used there except on the lectern.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03574b.htm   (5348 words)

  
 The Crypt School, Gloucester - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Current education changes in Gloucestershire now ensure the survival of the Crypt as a grammar school.
The Crypt School is the only Specialist Science School in Gloucester, this reflects the schools achievements in the scientific field as well as its investment in facilities for all sciences (including Maths, Geology and ICT etc.).
The school has also been awarded an 'Artsmark' Award by the Arts Council of England for the quality of provision in creative and perfoming arts.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/The_Crypt_School%2C_Gloucester   (304 words)

  
 Gloucester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bartholomew's Hospital, the largest and wealthiest of the three ancient hospitals, stood in the Island between Westgate bridge and the Foreign bridge.
An Act of Parliament confirming the grant in 1566 made the bishop of Gloucester visitor to the hospital, and successive bishops exercised that right, notably Martin Benson who made some new regulations in 1745.
A rent charge of 3s-4d a week was distributed to the almspeople under the Crypt school charity established by Joan Cooke in 1540,
www.institutions.org.uk /almshouses/GLS/gloucestershire.htm   (4162 words)

  
 Thomas Edward Brown - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He won a double first, however, and was elected a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Dean Gaisford having refused to promote him to a senior studentship of his own college, on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that honour.
From Gloucester he was summoned by the Rev. John Percival (afterwards bishop of Hereford), who had recently been appointed to the struggling young foundation of Clifton College, which he soon raised to be one of the great public schools.
He was the guest of one of the house-masters, and on Friday evening, 29th October, he gave an address to the boys of the house.
www.1911ency.org /B/BR/BROWN_THOMAS_EDWARD.htm   (663 words)

  
 Gloucestershire County Council - Kim Jones - Young Person of the Year 2004
Kim, 18, then an A-level student at The Crypt School in Gloucester, says being nominated for the award was an ‘incredible experience’ which will stand her in good stead in the future.
Kim started volunteering when she was just 13 and spent all her spare time after school, at weekends and during school holidays accompanying children on day trips and short breaks.
Her work involved helping children and young people with disabilities ranging from learning difficulties to severe mental and physical disabilities to do ‘normal’ activities such as swimming or going to the park.
www.gloucestershire.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=9293   (367 words)

  
 Rugby Football Union - Cork defeat brings decisive action
The trip to Cork exposed some frailties in the side, which had chances to have nailed a win in the first-half, but instead went down 27-18 to an Ireland side which rallied from a quiet start to take control.
One piece of good news for the camp is that lock forward Ian Kench of Tupton Hall School, Nottingham was not badly injured in Cork.
He is ruled out with ligament damage rather than the fracture that was first feared before he was taken to hospital and may be fit to resume in the final game against Wales.
www.rfu.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.News_Detail/StoryID/10003   (295 words)

  
 CAPEL BOND, Biography, Discography
(1730-1790) Capel Bond was born in Gloucester in 1730.
The young composer was probably educated at the Crypt School run by his uncle, the Reverend Daniel Bond and at the age of 12 was apprenticed to Martin Smith, Gloucester's Cathedral organist.
At the age of 19 he moved to Coventry to take up his post as organist of St. Michael and All Angels and three years later in Easter 1752 became organist of Holy Trinity, Coventry.
www.goldbergweb.com /en/history/composers/10339.php   (231 words)

  
 THE IRREPRESSIBLE HEADMASTER -- The Protesters
From the time that he began his formal education at the Wotton Free School it was apparent that John Biddle was destined for the highest academic level.
But one of these "friends" betrayed Biddle to the Gloucester magistrates, and, though ill with fever, the thirty-year old headmaster was committed to the common gaol.
The upshot was that a rather impatient bishop eventually withdrew from the dialogue with a few wry comments on the utter stubbornness of John Biddle.
www.west.net /~antipas/books/protesters/prot_13.html   (3397 words)

  
 Press Release 16.12.02 - Pupil Passes European Driving Test | Gloucester City Council Online
A 15-year-old pupil at Crypt School has passed a driving test - qualifying him to 'drive a computer' anywhere in Europe.
It was while doing a one-week work experience placement with Gloucester City Council that his IT potential was spotted.
Gloucesters homeless, rough sleepers and most needy homeowners will benefit from more help thanks to forward planning from tjhe city councils housing services
www.glos-city.gov.uk /Content.aspx?cindex=292&citem=6798&urn=1511   (737 words)

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