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Painswick has one school, Croft Primary School. The school is a small secular and co-educational Community School for children aged 4 to 11 with fewer than 150 pupils. [21] In the Key Stage 2 results for 2008 91% of children achieved or exceeded Level 4 in English and Science and 84% did so in Maths. These results are slightly higher than the ...
The first municipal building in Painswick was a structure on the south side of Victoria Square close to St Mary's Parish Church on a site known as "Jumbles Den". [2] The building, known as the "Stock House", included a school and a lock-up for petty criminals and was completed in 1628. [3]
During his tenure in Painswick, Winter rebuilt the chapel in 1803 and established a Sunday school. He also bequeathed two cottages to the congregation that were later used as the site of a school" [40] In 1910, a story about the closing of Christ Church in the Painswich newspaper spoke of Winter as a "very influential pastor at Christ Church". [41]
The Court House is a grade I listed house in Hale Lane, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, within the Cotswolds.. The house was built in the late 16th century with additions in 1604, [1] for Thomas Gardener on the site of an earlier manor house.
Edward Newman (13 May 1801 – 12 June 1876) was an English entomologist, botanist and writer.. Newman was born in Hampstead into a Quaker family. Both his parents were keen naturalists, and he was further encouraged to take an interest in the natural world at his boarding school in Painswick.
Francis Hyett was born in Painswick House in 1844, the son of William Henry Hyett. [2] He was educated at Eton College , and matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1864, graduating B.A. in 1868.
A few years later he created a slightly larger garden at his Painswick house, known then as Buenos Aires. [8] It incorporated a statue of Pan by Jan van Nost, which presided over the garden. [10] The main features of the garden were preserved into the 20th century and have now been preserved and opened to the public as the Painswick Rococo ...
Sheepscombe is a small village in the civil parish of Painswick, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.Sheepscombe is located some 6.5 miles (10 km) south-east of the city of Gloucester, 6 miles (10 km) north-east of the town of Stroud, and 1.5 miles (2 km) east of the village of Painswick.