Kensington School

School in/near Kensington, existed between the 1830s and 1869.

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The Kensington Proprietary Grammar School was an educational establishment founded in 1830 that is perhaps best remembered for being one of the founders of the Football Association in 1863.

The Kensington Proprietary Grammar School was colloquially referred to as the ’Kensington School’.

Kensington School was established in 1830 in union with the Corporation of King’s College London for the purpose "of providing an efficient course of education for youth, comprising religious and moral instruction in conformity with the principles of the Established Church, the Greek, Latin and Modern languages anc literature, History, Geography, Mathematics and such other branches of knowledge and such accomplishments as it may be practicable and advantageous to introduce." It was intended to create a first-grade institution in connection with the Church of England.

The Vicar of Kensington was the President the Bishop of London was the Patron. The school opened on 24 January 1831 with twenty pupils. The proprietors had taken a house on a short tenure in Kensington Square, the intention being that if after a trial period of two years the school was a success they would either take a lease or go elsewhere. The school quickly established itself.

The school was famous for its athletic attainments and for the zeal with which all games, especially cricket and football, were pursued. It contributed more than one captain to the Cambridge and Oxford University elevens, and was the first school in England to institute a public "sports" day. The sports were known to fashionable London as the "Kensington Races."

At the time of the school’s inception in 1830, football had yet to find a uniform code of play, and neither Association or Rugby football had yet been formalised. The style of football that had become increasingly popular since its inception at Rugby School was not adopted by the Proprietary School. They tended towards the dribbling game, represented to an extent by Eton’s code and which would be set down formally in Cambridge rules in 1848. However, even the apparent acceptance of these rule sets for these two variations in the game did not avert controversy over the rules by which teams should play. With the exception of a rationalised and uniform football culture that was emerging in Sheffield in the 1850s, across the United Kingdom from club to club and school to school there was little agreement over the elements of a football game, be that the time it should take to play, the number of players in a side, or indeed whether running with the ball was illegal or not. Teams had to agree on rules before a match, or had to agree to play the code of each team for one half of the match each. In order to allow matches to take place without such constraints and problems, a number of captains and representatives from various London clubs met at Freemasons’ Tavern in Lincoln’s Inn Fields on 26 October 1863. Kensington School was one of the twelve teams represented, and thus became a founder member of the Football Association.

The school was established at No. 31 Kensington Square in 1831. The proprietors had taken that house on a short tenure and within a year of opening the number of pupils had doubled and the schoolroom had had to be enlarged. The proprietors nevertheless decided against taking a lease of No. 31, due to the potential £600 ’substantial repairs’, and in June 1833 purchased the freehold of No. 27. This was an old house that had stood empty for some years and the proprietors planned to rebuild it. At the same time two-and-a-half acres of ground was leased behind the house, previously William Cobbett’s nursery, for use as a playground.

The rebuilding of No. 27 was carried out by George Todd of Chelsea in 1833-4 at a cost of some £3,500, the architect was William Crake of Notting Hill. The new school was in two parts: a front building, on the site of the old house, known as School House, intended as the headmaster’s residence, but it also contained other facilities such as a dining-room for the boys and bedrooms and a dormitory for boarders. A separate schoolroom was behind. The school was four storeys high with an austere brick front.

The schoolroom was housed in a free-standing single-storey building at the back of the main house from which it was separated by a paved playground covered by a corrugated-iron roof, known as the ’tectum’. A passageway through the basement storey of No. 27 gave direct access to the playground and schoolroom from Kensington Square. West of the schoolroom was the large open playground. In 1838 the proprietors acquired the next-door house at No. 26, where two more classrooms were erected in the back garden. At the same time the tectum was extended behind No. 26. with the house itself was leased to the school’s second master for £65 a year. In 1845 another two classrooms were built on top of the original schoolroom.

In 1845, when the number of pupils had reached 130, of whom 85 were boarders, the directors decided to buy No. 28 Kensington Square and use it as a boarding house, in order to relieve pressure on the headmaster’s own house. However, only a part of No. 28 was used in this way, the rest being let to the second master at £70 per annum, while his former residence at No. 26 was added to the headmaster’s house.

Records suggest that by 1857, despite the school’s enhanced academic reputation, the headmaster of the time had allowed general discipline in the school to relax. The formidable Haig Brown joined the school in 1857 instilling a sense of discipline once again and he remained at Kensington till 1863. His departure for Charterhouse was perhaps one of the causes which led eventually to the collapse of Kensington School. It is possible that, had he remained there, his powerful influence might have induced the Directors to oppose the Bill presented in Parliament by the Metropolitan Railway Company for powers to appropriate the playground, and they might thus have obtained sufficient compensation to enable them to remove the school elsewhere. The loss of the playground in 1865 was the chief cause of the final disbandment of the school. A much smaller playground was made in the back garden of No. 25, taken on lease in about 1864 and sub-let as a boarding house to one of the assistant masters.

By 1869, there were only 45 pupils left, and the school had accumulated debts of over £2,000. In July 1869, therefore, the proprietors voted to close it down and sold the school buildings to the Rev. Charles Tabor Ackland, one of the assistant masters.

In 1881, Ackland’s resigned and the trustees spent £3,650 on building works at the school enlarging classrooms and building fives courts behind Nos. 28 and 29, and other various alterations. The alterations at the three houses were partly intended to prepare them for letting to private tenants as the school contracted.

In 1898 the whole site was then offered for sale at auction but failed to attract a buyer, and in 1900 the trustees agreed to sell it to Derry and Toms for £20,500 but this was superseded when the Crown, which had been negotiating to buy the free hold of various properties occupied by Derry and Toms, agreed to buy the freehold of the Grammar School site and let it to Derry’s on a lease expiring in 1949.

Although Nos. 28 and 29 Kensington Square continued to be occupied by private tenants, the other three houses in the square were used to provide accommodation for Derry and Toms’ staff, and the back premises were converted for use as workshops. The only survival from the days of the school is the ’cottage’ behind No. 28, known as 27a, which is the ’new building’ of 1846.


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Pembroke Gardens Close, W8
Pembroke Gardens, W8 Pembroke Gardens is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Pembroke Gardens, W8
Pembroke Mews, W8 Pembroke Mews is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Pembroke Mews, W8
Pembroke Place, W8 Pembroke Place is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Pembroke Place, W8
Pembroke Square, W8 Pembroke Square was developed by the Hawks family (Kensington)
Pembroke Square, W8
Pembroke Studios, W8 Pembroke Studios is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Pembroke Studios, W8
Pembroke Villas, W8 Pembroke Villas is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Pembroke Villas, W8
Pembroke Walk, W8 Pembroke Walk is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Pembroke Walk, W8
Pennant Mews, SW5 Pennant Mews is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Pennant Mews, SW5
Phillimore Gardens, W8 Phillimore Gardens is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Phillimore Gardens, W8
Phillimore Place, W8 Phillimore Place was part of the old Phillimore Estate and, at first, named Durham Villas (Kensington)
Phillimore Place, W8
Phillimore Walk, W8 Phillimore Walk is a street in Kensington (High Street Kensington)
Phillimore Walk, W8
Pitt Street, W8 Pitt Street is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Pitt Street, W8
Plane Tree House, W8 Plane Tree House is a block on Phillimore Gardens (Kensington)
Plane Tree House, W8
Prince Of Wales Terrace, W8 Prince Of Wales Terrace is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Prince Of Wales Terrace, W8
Radley Mews, W8 Radley Mews is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Radley Mews, W8
Radnor Terrace, W14 Radnor Terrace runs southwest from Warwick Road (Kensington)
Radnor Terrace, W14
Rutland House, W8 Rutland House can be found on Marloes Road (Kensington)
Rutland House, W8
Scarsdale Place, W8 Scarsdale Place is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Scarsdale Place, W8
Scarsdale Villas, W8 Scarsdale Villas was built between 1850 and 1864 (Kensington)
Scarsdale Villas, W8
Sheffield Terrace, W8 Sheffield Terrace is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Sheffield Terrace, W8
Sheldrake Place, W8 Sheldrake Place is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Sheldrake Place, W8
South Edwardes Square, W8 South Edwardes Square derives its name from William Edwardes, 2nd Lord Kensington - the square was built on part of his Holland House Estate. (Kensington)
South Edwardes Square, W8
South End Row, W8 South End Row is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
South End Row, W8
South End, W8 South End is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
South End, W8
St Albans Grove, W8 St Albans Grove is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
St Albans Grove, W8
St James House, W8 Residential block (Kensington)
St James House, W8
St John’s Villas, W8 St John’s Villas is a 1990s development (Kensington)
St John’s Villas, W8
St Margarets Lane, W8 St Margarets Lane runs along the northern boundary of the Kensington Green Estate (Kensington)
St Margarets Lane, W8
St Mary Abbot’s Court, W14 St Mary Abbot’s Court is a block on Warwick Gardens (Kensington)
St Mary Abbot’s Court, W14
St Mary Abbots Vicarage, W8 St Mary Abbots Vicarage is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
St Mary Abbots Vicarage, W8
St Mary Abbot’s Place, W8 This is a street in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
St Mary Abbot’s Place, W8
St Mary’s Gate, W8 St Mary’s Gate was laid out over the site of St Mary Abbots Hospital (Kensington)
St Mary’s Gate, W8
St Mary’s Place, W8 St Mary’s Place is a road which was built over the site of St Mary Abbots Hospital (Kensington)
St Mary’s Place, W8
Stafford Court, W8 Stafford Court can be found on Kensington High Street (Kensington)
Stafford Court, W8
Stafford Terrace, W8 Stafford Terrace was built between 1868 and 1874 by builder Joseph Gordon Davis (Kensington)
Stafford Terrace, W8
Stanford Road, W8 Stanford Road is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Stanford Road, W8
Stone Hall Place, W8 Stone Hall Place leads to Stone Hall Gardens (Kensington)
Stone Hall Place, W8
Stratford Road, W8 Stratford Road is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Stratford Road, W8
Sunningdale Gardens, W8 Sunningdale Gardens is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Sunningdale Gardens, W8
Sutherland House, W8 Sutherland House is a block on Marloes Road (Kensington)
Sutherland House, W8
Thackeray Street, W8 Thackeray Street is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Thackeray Street, W8
The Barkers Building, W8 The Barkers Building is located on Derry Street (High Street Kensington)
The Barkers Building, W8
The Broad Walk, W8 The Broad Walk is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
The Broad Walk, W8
The Broadwalk, W8 The Broadwalk is a road in the W2 postcode area (Kensington)
The Broadwalk, W8
Thomas Place, W8 Thomas Place leads off St Mary’s Place (Kensington)
Thomas Place, W8
Thornwood Gardens, W8 Thornwood Gardens is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Thornwood Gardens, W8
Tor Court, W8 Tor Court is a block on Hornton Street (Kensington)
Tor Court, W8
Tor Gardens, W8 Tor Gardens is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Tor Gardens, W8
Trinity House, W14 Trinity House is sited on Kensington High Street (Kensington)
Trinity House, W14
Upper Phillimore Gardens, W8 Upper Phillimore Gardens is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Upper Phillimore Gardens, W8
Vicarage Court, W8 Vicarage Court is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Vicarage Court, W8
Vicarage Gardens, W8 Vicarage Gardens is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Vicarage Gardens, W8
Vicarage Gate House, W8 Vicarage Gate House is a block on Vicarage Gate (Kensington)
Vicarage Gate House, W8
Vicarage Gate, W8 Vicarage Gate is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Vicarage Gate, W8
Victoria Road, W8 Victoria Road stretches north to Kensington Road (Kensington)
Victoria Road, W8
Warwick Chambers, W8 Warwick Chambers is a street in Kensington (Kensington)
Warwick Chambers, W8
Warwick Gardens, W14 Warwick Gardens is a street in West Kensington (Kensington)
Warwick Gardens, W14
Warwick Road, W14 Warwick Road is a street in West Kensington (Kensington)
Warwick Road, W14
Wolfe House, W14 Wolfe House is a building on Kensington High Street (Kensington)
Wolfe House, W14
Wright’s Lane, W8 Wright’s Lane is a old lane of Kensington (Kensington)
Wright’s Lane, W8
Wycombe Square, W8 Wycombe Square is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Wycombe Square, W8
Wynnstay Gardens, W8 Wynnstay Gardens is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
Wynnstay Gardens, W8
York House Place, W8 York House Place existed between 1839 and 1904 (Kensington)
York House Place, W8
York Passage, W8 York Passage is a road in the W8 postcode area (Kensington)
York Passage, W8
Young Street, W8 Young Street, named after the developer of Kensington Square, was in use as a road by 1685 (High Street Kensington)
Young Street, W8
Zetland House, W8 Zetland House can be found on Marloes Road (Kensington)
Zetland House, W8

NEARBY PUBS
Churchill Arms The Churchill Arms was built in about 1824.
Churchill Arms
Elephant & Castle
Elephant & Castle
Holland Arms Holland Arms was a pub on Kensington High Street.
Holland Arms
Mall Tavern
Mall Tavern
Princess Victoria
Princess Victoria
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Pub location
Pub location
Pub location
Pub location
Pub location
Radnor Walk The Devonshire Arms at 37 Marloes Road is a Victorian era pub built in 1865 with a traditional beer garden.
Radnor Walk
Scampi’s Kingdom
Scampi’s Kingdom
The Britannia
The Britannia
The Hansom Cab
The Hansom Cab
The Scarsdale
The Scarsdale
Vestry House Museum
Vestry House Museum
Warwick Arms
Warwick Arms
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle


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