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Repton School is a co-educational English independent school for both day and boarding pupils located in the village of Repton, Derbyshire, in the English Midlands. The bequest to found a school either at Etwall or Repton was made in 1557, with the site of the former Repton Priory being acquired in 1559. ==History== The school was founded at the bequest of Sir John Port of Etwall, who died on 6 June 1557.〔 Port left funds to found a Grammar School either at Etwall or Repton, on the condition that the students of the school pray daily for the souls of his parents and relatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22552 )〕 Two years after Sir John's death, in 1559, the executors of his will purchased the site of Repton Priory from the Thacker family, for £37. 10s. Repton Priory was a 12th-century Augustinian Priory, which had been dissolved in 1538. The abbey church and associated buildings had remained standing as the residence of the Thacker family until 1553, when then owner, Gilbert Thacker, fearing the priory would be recommissioned under Catholic Queen Mary I, had the church destroyed; a task that was almost entirely completed within a single day.〔'Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Repton, with the cell of Calke', A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 58-63. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40125 Date accessed: 08 June 2013〕〔Repton Church: Our Church - Christianity in Repton http://www.reptonchurch.org.uk/index.htm〕 Thacker claimed "He would destroy the nest, for fear the birds should build therein again."〔 Thus when the land was acquired, only parts of the original priory buildings remained.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-82775-remains-of-priory-church-and-the-chapter- )〕〔(Pastscape - Detailed Result: PRIORY GATEWAY )〕 Fragments of the prior's lodgings, dated c.1438, were incorporated into a later building; the majority of this building dates from the 17th century and was comprehensively altered in the 19th century.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1055755 )〕〔 Foundations of other areas of the priory remain in several areas, having been uncovered during construction work in 1922: the bases of a cluster of columns remain of the former chancel and chapels; fragments of an arch remain, belonging to the former pulpitum, which were moved to their current position in 1906;〔 and fragments of the door surrounds of both the chapter house and warming room also survive.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=313097&sort=2&type=&typeselect=c&rational=a&class1=2&period=None&county=None&district=None&parish=None&place=repton&recordsperpage=10&source=text&rtype=&rnumber= )〕 The largest portion of the priory to survive is known as "Prior Overton's Tower", which dates from after 1437; largely altered from its original state, it has been incorporated into a largely 19th-century building.〔(English Heritage listing ) for "Repton Hall with Prior Overton's Tower, Repton School"〕 Repton Preparatory School was founded in 1940 and moved to nearby Foremarke Hall in 1947. In 1970, Repton School, formerly only for boys, started accepting girls in the sixth form (the last two years). One of the first female sixth formers, Carole Blackshaw, was Lady Mayoress of London in 2002/03. Repton became fully coeducational around 1990. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Repton School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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