sir roger manwood's school
Sandwich
In 1563 Sir Roger Manwood founded a Free Grammar School in Sandwich to make
education accessible to the townspeople. Since 1563 a great deal has changed.
The original school building still stands, but the School has occupied its
present site since 1895. In creating his new Free School in Sandwich, Sir Roger
Manwood ensured that it would have firm foundations. The present School is
hugely indebted to his foresight - there are four Foundations which still today
appoint Governors: the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lincoln College, Oxford,
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Diocese of Canterbury. Sir Roger
Manwood's inspiration lasted two and a half centuries, into a mid-Victorian era
which saw the School, like many Elizabethan foundations, drift into anonymity.