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The school's connection with the cathedral offers a range of opportunities. There is a School service every Sunday evening and Monday morning in the cathedral, as well as music concerts. Chapel, chamber and cathedral choir rehearsals and performances are performed in both the cathedral and the Music
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The red brick Cedars Cottage, which was built as a coachman's cottage the former stables and coach house were built in the mid to late 18th century, around the same time as Mullins. Ritchie House was built a little later around the end of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th. Ritchie Hall
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visited Wells on 18 October 2007 and has done so several times subsequently, including most recently in September 2019 to help mark the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Girl Choristers and the establishment of Cedars Hall.
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in the country. It cannot be proved, however, that the School has existed continually since the date of its supposed foundation in the tenth century, and there was certainly a hiatus during the 1880s, after which it was refounded.
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In 1969 it was among the first independent schools in the country to become coeducational when the junior school admitted girls. The following year, girls were admitted to the Senior School and it became fully coeducational.
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The current Head Master is Alastair Tighe with Jody Wells as Head of the Junior School, and Alexander Laing as Director of Music. Tighe has been Head Master since September 2018 and was previously Deputy Head (Academic) at
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aged between 3 and 18. The school has a musical emphasis and specialises in combining high-level musical tuition with a general academic education, as well as sports.
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became part of the School on its rebuilding in 1884 but incorporates part of a 12th-century Canon's Barn, while St Andrew's Lodge was built in 1713 as part of a
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Distinguished musicians visit the School to give masterclasses. The Music School has several main practice areas including the historic
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De Salis House and De Salis Cottage were built in the late 14th century. The Rib was built in the 15th century and is a Grade II*
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was built c1424-1430. The lower floor was a chapel, with a spiral stair leading up to the library. It is now used by the School.
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In 2005, the School was one of fifty independent schools to be found guilty of operating a price-fixing cartel, discovered by
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Entry for Lyons, Peter Stanley, in Register of Twentieth Century Johnians, Volume I, 1900-1949. St John's College, Cambridge.
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School. Government funding of £3.5 million was obtained in 2008 to build a new concert hall and classrooms at
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was Director of Music and Deputy Headmaster of Wells Cathedral School, and Master of the Choristers at
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The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement
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The Royal Family holds links with the school, many of the buildings being opened by
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line the northern parts of the city and the Music School retains close links with
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Obituary of P.S. Lyons, in Rutland and Stamford Mercury, Friday, April 20, 2007.
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is a co-educational independent day and boarding school located in
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Church of England private schools in the Diocese of Bath and Wells
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Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
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Colchester, L.S.; Quilter, David Tudway; Quilter, Alan (1985).
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With links to a school founded in AD 909, Wells is one of the
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was Headmaster of Wells Cathedral School from 1955 to 1960.
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Wells Cathedral School is supposed to be the fifth oldest
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Educational institutions established in the 10th century
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directives prohibiting such sharing of information.
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Wells
Somerset
Coordinates
51°12′49″N 2°38′37″W / 51.2135°N 2.6436°W / 51.2135; -2.6436
Cathedral foundation school
Private
Public school
Church of England
Charles III
https://wells.cathedral.school
Wells
Chetham's School of Music
Yehudi Menuhin School
Purcell School
St. Mary's Music School
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
oldest extant schools in the world
pupils
boarding houses
Wells Cathedral
Vicars' Close
listed building

charity school
independent school
Bedford School
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
Queen Elizabeth II
Silver Jubilee

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