Bryanston School

Bryanston School is a co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located next to the village of Bryanston, and near the town of Blandford Forum, in Dorset in South West England. It was founded in 1928. It occupies a palatial country house designed and built in 1889–94 by Richard Norman Shaw, the champion of a renewed academic tradition, for Viscount Portman, the owner of large tracts in the West End of London, in the early version of neo-Georgian style that Sir Edwin Lutyens called “Wrenaissance”, to replace an earlier house, and is set in 400 acres (1.6 km²).

Bryanston is a member of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference and the Eton Group. It has a reputation as a liberal and artistic school using some ideas of the Dalton Plan.

The school estate has Europe’s tallest London Plane tree (160 ft).

Each year, the JACT Ancient Greek Summer School is held at Bryanston; the school has played host to many of the United Kingdom’s classicists, both as teachers and pupils.

The school hosts the annual Dorset Opera Festival, which combines amateur and professional performers. Operas are staged at the conclusion of a two-week summer school.

Address : Bryanston School, Blandford Forum DT11 0PX, United Kingdom