History
Barton Court Grammar School lies close to the old city walls of Canterbury in the conservation area and World Heritage Site of St. Augustine's Abbey. It was the farm of the Abbey from its foundation in 605 AD ('Barton' stemming from 'bere tun' or 'barley enclosure'). The school is built around the lake in which the monks of the Abbey farmed fish. When Henry VIII destroyed the Abbey, he gave the farm to one of his faithful. Its lake remains and is a haven for wildlife, still teeming with fish despite visiting herons. It also has the sixth Ginkgo tree to be introduced in England from China. The other five were planted into Kew Gardens.
The main house of the school was built in 1750 as a manor house with the name 'Barton Manor'; the other buildings have been added in most recent years, a 1961 block, which is now the hall and corridor, a core subject corridor in 1997, a language block in 2001 with new technology classrooms in 2007 replacing the old mobiles.
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