Archbishop Tenison's School

I was passing by the side of The Oval cricket ground today having had a meeting near there. I was regretting it was winter and no cricket to watch and it was bitterly cold. I realised the ligh was fading and I would not be home until late so passing this old school building a blip formed in my mind. Some details about the school.

Thomas Tenison, an educational evangelist and later Archbishop of Canterbury, founded several schools in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A boys' school now at the Oval was founded in 1685 in the crypt of St Martin's in the Fields and relocated by 1895 in Leicester Square on the site previously occupied by the Sabloniere Hotel. The school moved to The Oval in 1928, with the new building being opened by the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). A girls' school was formally established in 1706 for 12 girls and in 1863 a new school building was erected at 18 Lambeth High Street.