Stained glass

Sherborne School’s Welsh Connection

When Hugo Daniel Harper (1821-1895) was appointed headmaster of Sherborne School in 1850 he brought with him 30 pupils from his former school, Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan, including Lewis Morris who went on to became a famous poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Harper, a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, had been … Read more

The Stained Glass of Sherborne School

  Between 1864 and 1922, the firm of Clayton and Bell designed eleven stained glass windows for Sherborne School, ten for the School chapel (although two were destroyed during the bombing of Sherborne in 1940) and one for the Upper Library. Set into the windows of the Old School Room are the crests of eleven … Read more