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This list of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom contains extant schools in the United Kingdom established prior to 1800. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the school. In many cases the date of the original foundation is uncertain.
St Edmund's College is a coeducational private day and boarding school in the British public school tradition, set in 440 acres (1.8 km 2) in Ware, Hertfordshire.Founded in 1568 as a seminary, then a boys' school, it is the oldest continuously operating and oldest post-Reformation Catholic school in the country.
Bristol Grammar School, England (1532) Nicolas Gibson Free School now the Coopers' Company and Coborn School, England (1536) [18] Elizabethan Grammar School now Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, England (1536) Gazi Husrev-beg medresa , Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1537) [19] Kilkenny College. Ireland (1538)
The Catholic Education Service provides the central co-ordination under the Bishops' Conference for Catholic schools in England and Wales. In England and Wales, Catholic schools come under the jurisdiction of their local diocese who can inspect the religious education and acts of worship of the school under Section 48 of the Education Act 2005 ...
Hereford Cathedral School is a private, co-educational boarding and day school for pupils of ages 3 to 18 years, from nursery to sixth form. Its headmaster is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference .
The Abbey Gateway, now home to the school's History and Religious Studies departments. The school was founded within St Albans Abbey by Abbot Wulsin in 948 and was the first school in the world to accept students not intending to join a religious order, being the first school open to the wider public. [7]
The King's School, Rochester, is a private co-educational all through day and boarding school in Rochester, Kent. It is a cathedral school and, being part of the foundation of Rochester Cathedral. The school claims to be the second oldest continuously operating school in the world, having been founded in 604 AD.
A list of educational institutions established within the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England, or founded as a result of the Oxford Movement. Pages in category "Anglo-Catholic educational establishments"