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High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England.A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [1]
The Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire is a chapel of 13th-century origins. Founded by the Guild of the Holy Cross before 1269, it passed into the control of the town corporation in 1553, when the Guild was suppressed by Edward VI .
The school was founded in 1656 by William Perkins as a Free School for all of the children of the parish. Other notable buildings in Salford Priors include Park Hall. Park Hall is an elegant Victorian house built in 1880 by William Tasker in a Queen Anne style, constructed in red brick beneath a hipped roof .
His son Robert (d 1613), High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1597, built a manor house in Elizabethan style adjacent to the priory ruins. The Burgoyne family (later Burgoyne baronets ) occupied the manor until 1713 when they sold it together with 1,850 acres (7.5 km 2 ), to Sir Christopher Wren .
Lawrence Shreriff founder of Rugby School. One of the most significant events in the town's history was the founding in 1567 of Rugby School: Lawrence Sheriff, a locally born grocer to Queen Elizabeth I, left money in his will to establish a school in Rugby for local boys. The school needed to take some fee-paying pupils from outside the area ...
The Grammar School of King Edward VI at Stratford-upon-Avon (commonly referred to as King Edward VI School or shortened to K.E.S.) is a grammar school and academy in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, traditionally for boys only. Since September 2013 the school has admitted girls into the Sixth Form. [1]
St Benedict's Catholic High School, Alcester; St Thomas More Catholic School, Nuneaton; Shipston High School, Shipston-on-Stour; Southam College, Southam; Stratford-upon-Avon School, Stratford-upon-Avon; Studley High School, Studley; Trinity Catholic School, Leamington Spa
Campion School was formed in 1977 when it moved to the present site on Sydenham Drive in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. In 2006, Campion was awarded dual specialisms of Business and Enterprise, and Visual Arts. The school became an academy on 1 January 2012. Campion School is a mixed 11 to 18 secondary school.