{"id":25104,"date":"2006-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/30\/abingdon-school-750-years\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"abingdon-school-750-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25104","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon School 750 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06053001.jpg\" \/><br \/>This fine memorial in St Helens Church, might be easy for scholars of Abingdon School to translate.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">IN PIAM MEMORIUM<br \/>JOHANNIS ROYSSE<br \/>OPPIDO ABENONENSI ORIVNDI<br \/>VRBIS LONDINENSIS CIVIS<br \/>SCHOLAE APVD ABENONENSIS FVNDATORIS<br \/>HOC MONVMEMTVM<br \/>RESTAVRANDVM CVRAVERVNT<br \/>SCHOLAE &#8211; ALVMNI &#8211; AMICI<br \/>MDCCLXXIII<br \/>SCHOLAM FVNDAVIT MDLXIII<\/div>\n<p>I guess the general sense is that John Roysse founded Abingdon School in 1563. So, the question for me, is why are they celebrating their 750th year?<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06053002.jpg\" \/><br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/\">school website<\/a> says:<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In 1563, the sixty-three year old John Roysse gave \u00a350 to the Corporation of Abingdon and specified that it should be used to build a schoolroom that was to be sixty-three feet long for sixty-three free scholars.<\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06053003.jpg\" \/><br \/>John Roysse was helping to refound a grammer school already mentioned in earlier documents. The first mention was the endowment by Abbot John de Blosneville for the support of thirteen poor scholars in 1256.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06053004.jpg\" \/><br \/>Abingdon School moved from the Roysse room near the Guildhall to the present site in 1870. It is built in the style of the surrounding houses on Park Crescent (one is pictured). This style is well known from the large victorian houses in North Oxford.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06053005.jpg\" \/><br \/>Looking around the school, what is interesting to see is how much green grass they have available for sports activities. This particular stretch of grass has been marked out as a running track. Trinity Church is on the far boundary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fine memorial in St Helens Church, might be easy for scholars of Abingdon School to translate. IN PIAM MEMORIUMJOHANNIS ROYSSEOPPIDO ABENONENSI ORIVNDIVRBIS LONDINENSIS CIVISSCHOLAE APVD ABENONENSIS FVNDATORISHOC MONVMEMTVMRESTAVRANDVM CVRAVERVNTSCHOLAE &#8211; ALVMNI &#8211; AMICIMDCCLXXIIISCHOLAM FVNDAVIT MDLXIII I guess the general sense is that John Roysse founded Abingdon School in 1563. So, the question for me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}