Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds

Moreton Hall Preparatory School
Moreton Hall Preparatory School
Address
	Mount Rd; Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7BJ; England
Information
Type	Prep day and boarding school
Motto	Magna est Veritas et Praevalet; ("Great is truth and mighty above all things")
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1962
Closed	2020
Local authority	Suffolk
Department for Education URN	124877 Tables
Headmistress	Lorna Wakerell
Gender	Coeducational
Age	3 to 13
Enrolment	96 (2012)
Colour(s)	Blue
Affiliation	IAPS
Website	http://www.moretonhallprep.org/

Moreton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Bury St Edmunds, a market town in the county of Suffolk, England. It was designed by the Scottish architect Robert Adam and built in 1773 as a country house for John Symonds (1729–1807), a clergyman and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. The building was originally known as "St. Edmund's Hill". It was later called "The Mount" and from 1890 "Moreton Hall".^[1]

School

From 1962, the building and surrounding 30 acres of parkland was used by the Moreton Hall Preparatory School, an independent co-educational preparatory school founded by Lady Miriam Fitzalan-Howard (daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop) and her husband Commander Peregrine Hubbard. Hubbard and Geoffrey de Guingand served jointly as the school's first headmasters. The Moreton Hall School Trust acquired the freehold to the building and parklands in 2009.^[2] It was affiliated with the Roman Catholic church but accepts all pupils regardless of denomination. The school was divided into two sections: pre-prep and prep. The pre-prep took pupils from aged 2 years and 8 months to 7 years. Prep consisted of pupils in Years 3–8. Boarding was offered to pupils aged 8 and above.^[3]^[4]

The school closed permanently on 30 June 2020.

References

^ British Listed Buildings. Moreton Hall School, Bury St. Edmund's (English Heritage Building ID: 466967)
^ "Land deal for Moreton Hall school". Bury Free Press. 22 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013.
^ Boarding Archived 2012-11-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ Boarding brochure^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

History of Moreton Hall
Profile on the Independent Schools Council website

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[BLB-1] British Listed Buildings. Moreton Hall School, Bury St. Edmund's (English Heritage Building ID: 466967)

[2] "Land deal for Moreton Hall school". Bury Free Press. 22 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013.

[3] Boarding Archived 2012-11-17 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Boarding brochure^{[permanent dead link]}

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