King's College Preparatory School is a co-educational day and boarding preparatory school. The school is located within the parish of

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, just north of

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ...

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, in the West of England. It is housed in the Grade II

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Pyrland Hall. It was named King's Hall School after Pyrland Hall joined with King's House.

History

King's Prep was originally the boys Junior House of

King's College, Taunton King's College is an independent co-educational day and boarding school in Taunton, Somerset, England, providing education for 2 to 18-year-olds. Set across two sites, it is surrounded by Somerset countryside. A member school of the Woodard Co ...

, and remains a partner school. Both are

Woodard Schools Woodard Schools is a group of Anglican schools (both primary and secondary) affiliated to the Woodard Corporation (formerly the Society of St Nicolas) which has its origin in the work of Nathaniel Woodard, a Church of England priest in the Anglo-C ...

which means they are part of a group of

Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

schools (both primary and secondary) affiliated to the Woodard Corporation (formerly the Society of St Nicolas) which has its origin in the work of

Nathaniel Woodard Nathaniel Woodard ( ; 21 March 1811 – 25 April 1891) was a priest in the Church of England. He founded 11 schools for the middle classes in England whose aim was to provide education based on "sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly groun ...

, an

Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasise the Catholicism, Catholic heritage (especially pre-English Reformation, Reformation roots) and identity of the Church of England and various churches within Anglicanism. Anglo-Ca ...

clergyman. Since it was established in 1953, the school has been housed in Pyrland Hall. Pyrland Hall School, as it was previously known, was a boys' preparatory school (ages 8–13) that amalgamated with King's House, a girl's preparatory school, which also had a pre-preparatory unit, to form King's Hall School in 1987. In September 2023, the school changed its name from King's Hall School to King's College Prep School. In 2010, Magnus Mowat, the chair of the school's governors was given the award Independent School Governor of the Year. The school's catering facilities were Gold Award Winners in the Taste of the West Awards in 2010/11.

References

External links

School website

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