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Crediton Town Council

Introducing Crediton
Crediton Past and Present
The Parish Church
Queen Elizabeth’s Community College
Arts and Culture
Looking Forward
Focus on Food
Crediton Food Festival
Directory of Information
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Crediton Town
Council Contact Information


Council Offices,
Crediton Town Council,
Market Street,
Crediton,
EX17 2BN

Tel: 01363 773717

Email: Crediton Town Council
www.crediton.gov.uk

 

Queen Elizabeth's Community College

Queen Elizabeth’s Community College has a history of more than 450 years of education The Spurway Almshousebehind it. Most children of 11-18 years from Crediton and the local area are educated here.

The first school The Royal Free Grammar School was founded by a charter of Edward V1 in 1547. Under a later charter it was named Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School and teaching began in 1572 with just ten scholars in the Lady Chapel of the parish church. In 1861 the school moved to a new building at the western end of the town near the Green. In 1911 Crediton High School for girls opened on the adjoining site. In 1966 the two schools became one co-educational grammar school.

The Shelley School Meanwhile the newly built Shelley School at the east end of the town was the secondary modern school until the 1970s when government legislation brought the end of grammar schools in this part of Devon. The Shelley School and the grammar school were merged, eventually to form the Community College that it is today.
Shobrooke Park
The present school The College is on two sites: Lower School at Barnfield has views across the hills to Dartmoor. Upper School on Western Road includes College House, which was the old boys’ grammar school, and the sixth form. QE has two unique features: it is the last split-site secondary school in the county; it is the only state school in the county with boarding places. Boarders come to the college from all parts of the county and from overseas, giving the school a genuinely international flavour.

A new school While the split-site feature of the present day Community College may have some advantages, it has long been the ambition of many to see the school relocated to a purpose-built single site and discussions to achieve such an ambitious development form part of long-term plans for the future of the area.




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Issued by Crediton Town Council with thanks to the following for their contributions and assistance in compiling the contents: The History Society, The Arts Centre, Sustainable Crediton, Holy Cross Church, Queen Elizabeth’s Community College, Crediton Photography Club; images provided by Holy Cross Church, Kate Bailey, Ella Bennett, Paul Cartwright, Cyril Chudley, John Downes, Michael Elliott, Norman Hedge, Gabi Krugenberg-Tayler, Martin Maggs, Keith Worters