Loughborough Grammar School (commonly LGS) founded in 1495 by Thomas Burton, is a selective, fee-paying, independent Public school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is a day school for over 1100 pupils and a boarding school for nearly 100. All pupils are boys. It is one of three schools known as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with Loughborough High School and Fairfield Preparatory School. The Endowed Schools share a board of g...
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Loughborough Grammar School (commonly LGS) founded in 1495 by Thomas Burton, is a selective, fee-paying, independent Public school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is a day school for over 1100 pupils and a boarding school for nearly 100. All pupils are boys. It is one of three schools known as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with Loughborough High School and Fairfield Preparatory School. The Endowed Schools share a board of governors.
LGS was founded after Thomas Burton, a prosperous wool merchant from Loughborough, left money for priests to pray for his soul upon is death in 1495; these priests went on to found the school that would become LGS.
The school was founded in the Parish Church in the centre of Loughborough in 1495, but was moved by the trustees of the Burton Charity to its present location in 1852. A purpose-built site on Burton Walks became its permanent home, initially consisting of the main school building, loadgings and a gatehouse at the Leicester...
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