Parochial School History
	The school now occupies its third site. It moved here in September 1967 from the town centre where it had been housed in the old building built for a National School and occupied since 1864. The old school with its 2 cramped playgrounds and seperate entrances for boys and girls was in the middle of Trowbridge opposite the Parish Church. It is a listed building and has been converted into flats and houses but the original master's and mistress's houses can still be seen. At one time the boys were downstairs and the girls upstairs with infants in an extra room built at the far end of the cruciform shape. For many years a stone statue of a bluecoat boy looked down on the school children as they went in and out. Unfortunately it succumbed to weathering and crashed down onto the forecourt luckily during the weekend so only the statue suffered. This statue was the last link with a previous school built in the churchyard. It was called The Free School and educated boys chosen by the Parish but the master was allowed to take some paying pupils. Only a drawing of this school remains with the bluecoat boy in a niche. In 1977 the school celebrated its Tercentenary when reference to the churchyard school was found in a parish register of 1677.