Chancellor's Grammar School, Salisbury

This school, originally for the study of Latin language and literature, existed in the 13th century and may have originated at Old Sarum. Although it lay outside The Close, in Exeter Street near St. Anne's Gate, the responsibility of appointing the schoolmaster lay with the chancellor of the Cathedral. The school took in choristers, altarists, younger members of the vicar's choral and probably fee-paying pupils from the city and around. The masters were normally minor clergy and the standard of teaching was probably equivelant to other grammar schools of the period. The names of schoolmasters are known for the period 1350-1470 but there is no mention of any after that date. It is assumed the the school ceased after 1475 but it was revived in 1540 and moved to Braybrooke House in The Close in 1559. In 1847 Bishop Hamilton brought together the grammar school and the Cathedral School (formerly the Choristers' School) and the combined school became known as the Cathedral School.