 There can be few schools held in more affection than Cranleigh. From its earliest beginnings as the 'Surrey County School' in the 1860s, Cranleigh has always attracted considerable local loyalty.
The generosity of the School's benefactors over the years has consistently overcome the lack of any permanent endowment fund. Indeed, the Founders had the confidence to launch the fledgling school in 1865 with donations amounting to little more than three and a half thousand pounds! Their faith was justified as the covenants soon flowed in, but not until after Cranleigh had opened its doors to the first Cranleighans: twenty-two boarders and four day boys.
The Chapel, built some four years later, was funded almost totally by a gift of some five and a half thousand pounds from Sir Henry Peek in memory of his mother, Elizabeth.
Since those long-ago Victorian days, Cranleigh's development has alternated between periods of gentle growth and bursts of rapid evolution. For example, growing pains in the 1920s led to the building of the Connaught Block and the Speech Hall. A similar constriction in the late 1970s saw the appearance of a second quadrangle to the North of Sir Henry Woodyer's warmly cloistered buildings.
Cranleigh now stands on the threshold of a new phase of evolution to meet the challenges of the new millennium, and today's Cranleigh Foundation Trustees have the same confidence as the original Founders did in asking for your help.
Cranleigh
Surrey Foundation Director
GU6 8QQ David Johnston
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