Qualla: City of London School https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/city-of-london-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: City of London School https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school City of London School: Introduction https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school/ Photo credit Africaspotter, CC BY-SA 3.0. John Carpenter died in 1442 leaving land to two trusted friends, and the instructions whispered between them changed centuries of London childhood. The Town Clerk of the City had not written formal directions to educate poor boys, but those friends knew his wishes. The land passed along, the words were copied into a new will, and four poor men's children were to be fed, clothed, and "learning at the schools, in the universities, etc., until they be preferred, and then others in their places for ever." Five hundred and eighty years later, that bequest still buys education on the banks of the Thames, in a red-brick building where Daniel Radcliffe once sat at a desk and stared across the river at Tate Modern.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/city-of-london-school-wp/gcpv-city-of-london-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full City of London School: Carpenter's Children https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school/ Photo credit Der Buckesfelder, CC BY-SA 3.0. For three centuries the four scholars known as Carpenter's Children moved quietly through London's history. A small college was founded next to Guildhall Chapel around 1460. The Chantries Act of 1547 forfeited the chapel and ended their funding, but the Corporation of London kept...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/city-of-london-school-wp/gcpv-city-of-london-school-carpenters-children.mp3 0:06 2 full City of London School: Three Buildings, One Idea https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school/ Photo credit mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 3.0. The school moved three times, and each move told something about the city around it. The first home opened on Milk Street in 1837, a neo-Gothic Tudor design by J.B. Bunning. By 1883 it had outgrown that site, and the school crossed to the Victoria Embankment into a grand pile by ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/city-of-london-school-wp/gcpv-city-of-london-school-a-boy-from-tottenham-a-wizard-from-surrey.mp3 0:06 4 full City of London School: Boys in Marlborough https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 1 September 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, the headmaster F.R. Dale executed a plan he had quietly made the year before. The boys of City of London School were placed on trains and evacuated to Marlborough College in Wiltshire. The agreement had not included accommodation...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/city-of-london-school-wp/gcpv-city-of-london-school-boys-in-marlborough.mp3 0:06 5 full City of London School: A Million-Selling Chorister https://qualla.com/city-of-london-school/ Photo credit Matt Brown from London, England, CC BY 2.0. In 1920 the school made an arrangement that quietly shaped twentieth-century English music. Every boy chorister of Temple Church would be given a scholarship to City of London School. In 1926 the same arrangement was extended to the choristers of the Chapel Royal at St James's Pa...

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