The following is an extract from the story of Shoreham Grammar School, an independent boys school in West Sussex as remembered by Rev. F R D Kennedy, Chaplain.

Having moved from the original premises in Shoreham in 1965, the Grammar School was housed in a vacant school property belonging to St. Andrew's Church, Worthing for three years. The school had now combined with the Caius School on the retirement of Mr and Mrs Lewis who ran the school.

In September l968, Shoreham Grammar School once more returned to Shoreham and its new premises were a splendid Tudor mansion, which Mr. Lewis the previous headmaster had enlarged to include a big hall, four fine dormitories and a vast bathroom. There were stables that had been converted into classrooms.

By the buildings was a splendid playing field and on the property there were some fine old trees of many species. Adjoining, with a special entrance from the School, was the beautiful fourteenth century parish Church of St. Julian's which was to serve as a Chapel and in which the School Chaplain had taken so many services.

Among the boxes and packages that were brought from Worthing were the old Shoreham Grammar School sanctuary stained-glass windows, and the round window above, also the memorial tablets and plaques, which Mr. Monk kindly arranged to be sent to Worthing on the demolition of the Chapel.

The intention was that all these objects should be incorporated in a new Chapel to be erected in the grounds in which the School finally settled.

The Chaplain hopes that at some date Mr. Lewis' portrait will hand somewhere in the School and also that the name of Caius will be preserved either by a Scholarship, or a part of the school. It was the Chaplain's wish that the big hall should be known as the Lewis Hall if only to mark acknowledgement of the help of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis who made the move possible.

The Chaplain was very keen to help to ensure the continuity of the School and that there should be at least three Old Shorehamers on the School Council and this has been provided for by the articles of the Kennedy Independent School Trust Ltd. to some extent in 31C, in which it is stated that on the School Council should be 'two former pupils of Shoreham Grammar School and one member of the Old Shorehamers' Association elected on the recommendation of the Headmaster and Masters of Shoreham Grammar School'.

Shoreham grammar school - St. Julian's lane.

Canon D. H. Booth retired as Headmaster of Shoreham Grammar School in the winter of 1976. His contribution to the School was a mammoth one.

He became associated in 1965 when all was nearly lost. He retired as headmaster of a school run under its own charitable trust, which owns its own freehold, and is rightly proud in the best traditions of good education in this country.