Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds

For the listed building in Moreton Morell, Warwickshire, see Moreton Hall.

Exterior of Moreton Hall in 2005

Moreton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Bury St. Edmund's, a market town in the county of Suffolk, England. It was designed by the Scottish architect Robert Adam and built in 1773 as a country house for John Symonds (1729–1807), a clergyman and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. The building was originally known as "St. Edmund's Hill". It was later called "The Mount" and from 1890 "Moreton Hall".^[1]

School

Not to be confused with Moreton Hall School in Oswestry

Moreton Hall Preparatory School
Motto	Magna est Veritas et Praevalet ("Great is truth and mighty above all things")
Established	1962
Type	Prep day and boarding school
Religion	Roman Catholic
Headmaster	Simon Head
Location	Mount Rd Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP32 7BJ England
Local authority	Suffolk
DfE number	935/6026
DfE URN	124877 Tables
Students	96 (2012)
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	3–13
Colours	Blue
Affiliation	IAPS
Website	www.moretonhallprep.org

Since 1962, the building and surrounding 30 acres of parkland have been used by the Moreton Hall Preparatory School, an independent co-educational preparatory school founded by Lady Miriam Fitzalan-Howard (daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop) and her husband Commander Peregrine Hubbard. Hubbard and Geoffrey de Guingand served jointly as the school's first headmasters. The Moreton Hall School Trust acquired the freehold to the building and parklands in 2009.^[2] It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic church but accepts all pupils regardless of denomination.

Organisation

The school is divided into two sections: pre-prep and prep. The pre-prep takes pupils from aged 2 years and 8 months to 7 years. Prep consists of pupils in Years 3-8.

Boarding

Boarding is offered to pupils aged 8 and above. Older pupils usually choose to board as many go on to independent boarding schools. They are cared for by two resident matrons who are assisted by some teachers and gap year students. The Headmaster and his family reside nearby and are actively involved in the boarding programme.^[3]^[4]

References

↑ British Listed Buildings. Moreton Hall School, Bury St. Edmund's (English Heritage Building ID: 466967)
↑ "Land deal for Moreton Hall school". Bury Free Press. 22 October 2009.
↑ Boarding
↑ Boarding brochure

External links

Building

Interior and exterior images of Moreton Hall in 1890 – Bury St Edmunds Past and Present Society

School

History of Moreton Hall
Profile on the Independent Schools Council website

Schools in Suffolk

Secondary	Alde Valley Academy Beccles Free School The Benjamin Britten High School Bungay High School Castle Manor Academy Claydon High School Copleston High School County Upper School Debenham High School East Bergholt High School East Point Academy Farlingaye High School Felixstowe Academy Hadleigh High School Hartismere School Holbrook Academy Ipswich Academy Kesgrave High School King Edward VI School (Bury St Edmunds) Mildenhall College Academy Newmarket Academy Northgate High School Ormiston Denes Academy Ormiston Endeavour Academy Ormiston Sudbury Academy Pakefield School St Benedict's Roman Catholic Upper School Samuel Ward Academy Sir John Leman High School Stradbroke High School Stoke High School Stour Valley Community School Stowmarket High School Stowupland High School Suffolk New Academy Thomas Gainsborough School Thomas Mills High School Thurston Community College Westbourne Academy

Independent	Culford School Felixstowe International College Finborough School Focus School Framlingham College Ipswich High School Ipswich School Moreton Hall School Old Buckenham Hall School Royal Hospital School Saint Felix School St Joseph's College, Ipswich Stoke College Summerhill School Woodbridge School

Special	Ashley School The Bridge School Centre Academy East Anglia

Sixth form & FE colleges	Lowestoft College Lowestoft Sixth Form College Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture Suffolk New College Suffolk One West Suffolk College

Defunct	Amberfield School Felixstowe College Hillcroft Preparatory School Kesgrave Hall School Palgrave Academy RNTE Shotley Sudbury Grammar School Woolverstone Hall School

Coordinates: 52°14′47″N 0°44′16″E / 52.2464°N 0.7378°E / 52.2464; 0.7378

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