Thomas Rotherham College
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Thomas Rotherham College is a college for 16 to 19 year olds, founded in 1967. It is located in Rotherham
, South Yorkshire
, England
.
. In the 1960s it had around 600 boys and was administered by the County Borough of Rotherham Education Committee.
However, the new Rotherham Congregational College was in use for only twelve years. In 1888, it amalgamated with the Congregational College at Bradford and the merged college operated from the Bradford premises. The Rotherham building was no longer needed and it was sold to become the premises of the Rotherham Grammar School. The School moved in around 1890.
Rotherham
Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, at its confluence with the River Rother, between Sheffield and Doncaster. Rotherham, at from Sheffield City Centre, is surrounded by several smaller settlements, which together form the wider Metropolitan Borough of...
, South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...
, England
England
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Admissions
The principal is Dr Richard Williams. It is situated on the top of a hill, off Moorgate Road (A618), next to Boston Castle.Grammar school
The college has its origins in Rotherham Grammar School (founded 1483), whose buildings it took over. Its name is derived from the fifteenth century cleric Thomas RotherhamThomas Rotherham
Thomas Rotherham , also known as Thomas de Rotherham, was an English cleric and statesman. He served as bishop of several dioceses, most notably as Archbishop of York and, on two occasions as Lord Chancellor...
. In the 1960s it had around 600 boys and was administered by the County Borough of Rotherham Education Committee.
Sixth form college
It became the Thomas Rotherham College in 1967, although it was 1968 before it received its first mixed intake. By the early 1970s it had 400 at the college and 500 by the mid-1980s.The College building (1876)
The main building of what is now the Thomas Rotherham College was built as a theological college training minsters for Congregational churches. The site (originally 8.5 acres) had been bought in 1870, for £ 3,200. But, the building project was delayed owing to the commercial upheaval arising from the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. The building was eventually executed in "collegiate Gothic" at a cost of £ 23,000, and it was opened on 20 September 1876.However, the new Rotherham Congregational College was in use for only twelve years. In 1888, it amalgamated with the Congregational College at Bradford and the merged college operated from the Bradford premises. The Rotherham building was no longer needed and it was sold to become the premises of the Rotherham Grammar School. The School moved in around 1890.
Academic performance
It gets A-level results second in Rotherham LEA to Wath Comprehensive School.Alumni
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