Crewkerne Grammar School


Crewkerne Grammar School was a grammar school in the town of Crewkerne in the English county of Somerset. It was founded in 1499 by John de Combe, a precentor of Exeter Cathedral and former vicar of Crewkerne. The school closed in 1904, after a prolonged financial crisis, and re-opened the following year as an ordinary secondary school under the Board of Education.
With the closure of the School at De Combe House on the 'Mount Pleasant' site, a majority of artefacts were moved to St Martins Preparatory School and town's museum. Later, Crewkerne Grammar was re-established as St Martins Prep School in Abbey Street which used the former grammar school facilities including the gymnasium and hall in the town, the pre-school closed in 2003 becoming a day nursery only.
The grammar school building, dating from 1636 and in use until 1882, is now the parish church hall and is a Grade II listed building.
Notable former pupils include:
School houses included:
School History, history of the School in Abbey Street, Crewkerne:
School motto: Venite filii obedite mihi, timorem Domini ego vos docebo