St Mary's School, Wantage

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St Mary's School was an Anglican private girls' school located in Wantage, Oxfordshire between 1873 and 2007, when it merged with Heathfield School to become Heathfield St Mary's. The school was popular with the British Aristocracy.

History

The school was founded at the initiative of the Reverend W J Butler, Vicar of Wantage, in 1873. The school was run by the sisters of the Community of St Mary the Virgin.

St Mary's was initially to be re-sited just outside of the town of Wantage. The buildings were purchased for around £15m by the property developer Anton Bilton and his company, Raven Mount, in 2005. The move was said to be necessary to increase the size of the school and modernise facilities. However, in 2006 it was announced that the school would be merging with the Heathfield School in Ascot, to form a new school, Heathfield St Mary's. The Wantage site was closed at the end of the summer term 2007.

Old girls of St Mary's Wantage are known as 'SMOGs'.

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