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Stationers' Company's School

Coordinates: 51°34′51″N 0°06′51″W / 51.5809°N 0.1142°W / 51.5809; -0.1142
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Stationers' Company's School
Address
Map
Mayfield Road

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N8 9LR

England
Coordinates51°34′51″N 0°06′51″W / 51.5809°N 0.1142°W / 51.5809; -0.1142
Information
TypeGrammar school then Voluntary Controlled Comprehensive from 1967
Mottoverbum Domini manet in aeternum
Established1861
FounderWorshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Closed1983
Local authorityHaringey
GenderBoys
Age11 to 18
Enrollment1100 as comprehensive
FateClosed in 1983

The Stationers' Company's School was a grammar school for boys, later a comprehensive school in Hornsey, north London.

Foundation

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The school was founded by the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to provide education for sons of those in the printing, newspaper, publishing and allied trades, at that time concentrated around Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill and Paternoster Square. In 1861 it was established at No.6 Bolt Court, a historic alleyway off Fleet Street. The Master of the school from 1858 to 1882 was Alexander Kennedy Isbister.[1]

Grammar school

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In 1891 the School moved to a spacious hill-top site between Mayfield Road and Denton Road in Hornsey, northeast from Crouch End in purpose-built buildings in a Gothic Style. Early on the speech night was held at the nearby Stationers' Hall and after relocation to Hornsey often at the Hornsey Town Hall. In 1933 the school was extended and a new assembly hall, gymnasium, dining hall and workshops were accommodated in a new brick extension rising to five storeys along Mayfield Road,which doubled the school's footprint.

Founded as a voluntary aided school, it became voluntary controlled in 1966 within the newly created London Borough of Haringey, after which the Stationers' Company's connection with the school through the appointment of governors was largely nominal.

Comprehensive

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Stationers' Company's Grammar School became a comprehensive boys' school in 1967, by merger first with Priory Vale Secondary Modern School in Hornsey and later with William Forster School in Tottenham. The school resulting from these ill-considered mergers did not flourish and Stationers' School closed in 1983. The buildings were demolished and part of the site landscaped as Stationers' Park, with the balance developed as social housing.

Alumni

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Willats, Eric A. (1987). Streets with a Story: Islington. ISBN 0-9511871-04.
  2. ^ National Archives HS 9/1410/4
  3. ^ "No. 37780". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 November 1946. p. 5466.
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