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The Church of St Mary the Virgin is in the village of Bowdon near Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. [1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Bowdon. [2]
Cransley School was founded in Bowdon in the 1930s as a girls' preparatory school. It moved to its current location, Belmont Hall, in 1977. The school is set in parkland and surrounded by mature woodland. Cransley School first started educating boys at primary level in the 1980s. The school's gym was opened in 1983 by the Duke of Westminster.
Summer Term runs from Easter to mid-July (half term ends in late May/early June). At the end of each half-term a holiday lasts about one week (usually nine full days, including two weekends), although in the autumn term, some schools give students two week long holidays (16 full days, including 3 weekends) to account for the term being longer ...
The name Bowdon came from Anglo-Saxon Boga-dūn = "bow (weapon)-hill" or "curved hill". Bowdon and nearby Dunham Massey are both mentioned in the Domesday Book, citing the existence of a church and a mill in Bowdon, and Dunham Massey is identified as Doneham: Hamo de Mascy. [1] Both areas came under Hamo de Masci in Norman times.
In September 1910, the school was eventually populated by sixty pupils. Three full-time and five part-time staff were employed. In 1931, the school's 21st anniversary, it lost most of its preparatory department. The headmistress for the first twenty-three years of AGGS was Miss Mary Howes Smith; she retired in 1933.
The school was called Loreto Convent Grammar School, Bowdon, in the 1950s; the school was not a direct grant grammar school, but an independent catholic school, not a state school. Girls would attend from as far away as Warrington and Alderley Edge in the 1950s. [ 6 ]
The original church was built as a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Bowdon in 1799. [3] The tower and spire date from 1874 and the chancel from 1886. [1] In 1896–97 the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley rebuilt the nave and aisles. [4] [5] Sketch of proposed Church prepared by architects Austin & Paley in 1895.
Historic England, "Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon (1122650)", National Heritage List for England Historic England, "Piers, railings and walls bounding St. Mary's graveyard on west, east and north sides, Bowdon (1067935)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 November 2017