St Gabriel'S School

St Gabriel's School is an independent day school located in Sandleford Priory at Sandleford, two miles (3 km) south of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. Boys attend the nursery and junior school, up to age 11 (Year 6). Girls attend the nursery, junior school, secondary school and the sixth form, up to age 18 (Year 13). Attendance to the school is accompanied by fees. These can be found on the website. To summarise, the further up in the school the child is, the more the fees are. There is also the option of buses to take your child /children to and from school, before-school care, after-school care, music lessons and, if needed, individual needs. Some of these cost additional fees. HistoryPrioryThe Priory of St John the Baptist at Sandleford was founded for the Augustinian Canons Regular by Geoffrey, Earl of Perch and his wife Maud some time between 1193 and 1202. In 1274, Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford made arrangements to refound it as a double house for Fontevrault Benedictine nuns and brothers, but this did not come about. It was dissolved in 1478 and abandoned by the remaining monks after years of mismanagement by a prior. The ownership fell into the hands of the Bishop of Salisbury, and circa 1480 passed to the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The old priory chapel is the present library. The remains were converted to a country house which was leased out to a number of wealthy citizens during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, these included:

St Gabriel's School is an independent day school located in Sandleford Priory at Sandleford, two miles (3 km) south of Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. Boys attend the nursery and junior school, up to age 11 (Year 6). Girls attend the nursery, junior school, secondary school and the sixth form, up to age 18 (Year 13). Attendance to the school is accompanied by fees. These can be found on the website. To summarise, the further up in the school the child is, the more the fees are. There is also the option of buses to take your child /children to and from school, before-school care, after-school care, music lessons and, if needed, individual needs. Some of these cost additional fees. HistoryPrioryThe Priory of St John the Baptist at Sandleford was founded for the Augustinian Canons Regular by Geoffrey, Earl of Perch and his wife Maud some time between 1193 and 1202. In 1274, Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford made arrangements to refound it as a double house for Fontevrault Benedictine nuns and brothers, but this did not come about. It was dissolved in 1478 and abandoned by the remaining monks after years of mismanagement by a prior. The ownership fell into the hands of the Bishop of Salisbury, and circa 1480 passed to the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The old priory chapel is the present library. The remains were converted to a country house which was leased out to a number of wealthy citizens during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, these included: