Chapel Corridor has been hung with a collection of documents, prints, plans, portraits and photographs
from the School’s past, transforming it into a picture gallery. Now as you walk down it you take a walk
through the School’s history: from the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth.
The Abingdon Foundation, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxford OX14 1DE 01235 521563
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Edited by Jane Warne –
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Design –
From the Sixteenth Century
Letters Patent dated 1549 from the reign
of Edward VI confirming John Roysse’s
purchase of the properties in Birchin
Lane, London with which he endowed the
School in 1563.
From the Seventeenth Century
A petition to Oliver Cromwell from the
burghers of Abingdon in 1654, asking
for the removal of Anthony Huish as
Headmaster of Abingdon School. Huish
had supported the King in the Civil War.
From the Eighteenth Century
A collection of prints of Old Abingdonian
clergymen, authors, explorers and lawyers
and a school roll, dated 1732, naming 86
pupils, the names of the aristocrats written
in larger letters than the rest.
From the Nineteenth Century
Photographs and plans of the old School
in the centre of town and of the present
School in Park Road.
From the Twentieth Century
Pictures of the expanding school buildings,
portraits of Governors and Headmasters,
and one of OA Wing Commander John
Viney DSO, DFC, who was 24 when he
retired from the RAF at the end of the war.
Abingdon
Out of the Past
A Walk Through History
Abingdon School 1970 by Ken Messer
Part of the 1732 School Roll
The collection does not attempt
to provide a narrative history of
the School; all the items have
been acquired over several
centuries and each one has its
own label and tells its own story.
