Qualla: Oundle School https://qualla.com/oundle-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/oundle-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Oundle School https://qualla.com/oundle-school Oundle School: Introduction https://qualla.com/oundle-school/ Photo credit Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0. William Laxton, eight times Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and Lord Mayor of London in 1544, made provision in his will for a school in the Northamptonshire town where he had been a boy. He died in 1556. The Grocers' Company, which has run the school continuously since, was a livery company that handled spices and dried goods and had grown rich on London's medieval long-distance trade. There had been a school on the same site for at least seventy years before Laxton's bequest, which is why Oundle quietly skirts the question of whether it dates from 1485, 1556 or 1876, when the Grocers' Company split the old grammar school into a boarding establishment for outsiders and a day school for local boys. The town has had a school for most of recorded memory. The Grocers have been paying for it for nearly five hundred years.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/oundle-school-wp/gcrd-oundle-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Oundle School: Sanderson's Revolution https://qualla.com/oundle-school/ Photo credit Michael Trolove, CC BY-SA 2.0. When Frederick William Sanderson became headmaster in 1892, Oundle was a small country boarding school of around a hundred boys. By the time he died in 1922, having just finished giving a lecture at University College London to an audience that included H. G. Wells, it was one of...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/oundle-school-wp/gcrd-oundle-school-sandersons-revolution.mp3 0:06 2 full Oundle School: Stained Glass and a Cricketing Throbbing Gristle https://qualla.com/oundle-school/ Photo credit Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Chapel of Saint Anthony was consecrated in 1923 as a memorial to the two hundred and twenty-one Old Oundelians killed in the First World War. The architect was Arthur Conran Blomfield; the roll-of-honour tablets in the ambulatory listing every name were designed by Bertram Cl...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/oundle-school-wp/gcrd-oundle-school-stained-glass-and-a-cricketing-throbbing-gristle.mp3 0:06 3 full Oundle School: The Old Oundelians https://qualla.com/oundle-school/ Photo credit The original uploader was Kev747 at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. The Old Oundelians club was founded in 1883. Among the names on its rolls are Sir Maxwell Hutchinson, past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects; the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins; Bruce Dickinson, the singer who fronts Iron Maiden and flies airliners; t...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/oundle-school-wp/gcrd-oundle-school-the-old-oundelians.mp3 0:06 4 full Oundle School: The Town and the School https://qualla.com/oundle-school/ Photo credit Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942, Public domain. Oundle is unusual in that the school is not on a separate campus walled off from the town: its buildings are scattered through the streets, the Cloisters in the centre, the Stahl Theatre in a converted church on West Street, the SciTec complex and Patrick Engineering Centre on th...

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