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Taunton School is a co-educational independent school in the county town of Taunton in Somerset in South West England. It serves boarding and day-school pupils from the ages of 13 to 18. The current headmaster is Lee Glaser, appointed in the autumn of 2014.〔(Taunton School headmaster John Newton leaves to take up new post ), ''Somerset County Gazette''〕 The school campus also includes Taunton School International for overseas students; Taunton Preparatory School, serving boarding and day-school pupils aged 7 to 13; Taunton Pre-Prep School, serving day-school pupils aged 4 to 7, and Taunton Nursery, serving pupils aged 2 to 4. ==History== Taunton School was founded in 1847〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Taunton School International )〕 as a boys-only school for dissenters - those who were not members of the Church of England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inspection report on Taunton School )〕 Right from its founding, it was in direct competition with the other schools in Taunton: King's College and Taunton Grammar School (both Church of England) and Queen's College (Methodist). In the 1870s, the school's governors purchased a site at the northern end of Taunton, on Staplegrove Road. They had built, by Joseph James, a gothic-influenced building, in the prevailing style of the period. The school is constructed in a C-plan, with a high tower. Grey stone came from Somerset's Mendip Hills. This large building still dominates the school's campus today. It is a Grade II listed building. The school was a founding member of the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships and has hosted the tournament numerous times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debating )〕 A chapel was built in 1907 in contrasting style to the rest of the school. Its sponsor was the wealthy William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke. Wills was a director of Bristol-based tobacco firm, W.D. & H.O. Wills. Two features in the chapel were especially of note: the organ and the mosaics. In 2007 on the centenary of the founding of the Chapel the original pipe organ was broken up,〔[http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D02946 National Pipe Organ Register Somerset Taunton, Taunton School [D02946]] 〕 it being replaced by a new digital organ which was funded in part, by donations from Old Tauntonians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tauntonschool.co.uk/downloads/1380_facilities-and-resources-11-12-pdf.pdf )〕 In September 1971 Taunton School began the merger with Weirfield School, an independent boarding and day school for girls, which was also situated on Staplegrove Road, by admitting girls into the Sixth Form. Then in 1976 Taunton School completed this merger with the rest of the senior section of Weirfield School. This became one of the earliest fully co-educational independent schools in England. Additional buildings were erected on the original Taunton School campus, and Weirfield continued as a girls-only junior school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scdpartnership.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.dspTauntonJuniorSchoolMiddleSchool )〕 In 1990, in order to create closer links between the two junior schools and Taunton School, Taunton Junior School (originally known as Thone) and Weirfield were renamed Taunton Junior Boys School and Taunton Junior Girls School, respectively. As both Junior Schools needed modernisation, building began in 1993 on the boys' site (Thone) to create a new joint boys and girls school, which was partly financed by the sale of the Weirfield site. In 1994 both schools were located at the Thone site and they were renamed Taunton Preparatory School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Taunton Preparatory School : Middle School Building )〕 A classroom block in the Preparatory School is called Weirfield, as is the main senior girls' Boarding house.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/index.php?q=filedownloading/&id=1326097&type=1&refer=0. )〕 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「Taunton School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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