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Illustrations of School and City

If the history of York is the history of England, as George VI remarked, then there is also a very real sense in which the story of York intertwines with that of Archbishop Holgate's School. The panels below depict scenes spanning four and a half centuries of history, painted in Cubist style by pupils of the School under the guidance of Peter and Linda Combie to mark the school's 450th Anniversary.


Panel 1 represents Robert Holgate (centre), and, from top right clockwise, his coat of arms; his wife; the old school in Ogleforth; and Luther, whose Protestant ideals Holgate sought to further.
Panel 2 represents King Henry VIII (centre), from whom Holgate obtained letters patent to found our school; John Fletcher, an Elizabethan Master of Archbishop's, who was later tried and imprisoned in Hull for dissent; Queen Mary, under whom Holgate fell from grace; Queen Elizabeth herself; and a representative Anglican clergyman.
Panel 3 represents York besieged in the seventeenth century, an event with which contemporary pupils of Archbishop's would have been well familiar: Fairfax (centre); the obelisk marking Marston Moor; Charles I, who held court in the King's Manor, which earlier had been Archbishop Holgate's administrative centre; Cromwell; and Walmgate Bar under siege.
Panel 4 suggests eighteenth and nineteenth century life, with the battle for Empire (centre), Dick Turpin (bottom left), and scenes of Georgian life in York.
The upper half of Panel 5 shows Archbishop Holgate's at the Lord Mayor's Walk site, and sport on grounds now housing York District Hospital; the bottom half depicts World Wars 1 and 2; the centrepiece is the arms granted to the school by the College of Arms in 1950 in recognition of the supreme sacrifice made by so many members of Archbishop's.
Panel 6 depicts the school today - the Hull Road buildings, Food Technology, orienteering practice in the school grounds, Information and Communication Technology in the Vinter Suite, and the continuing link with successive Archbishops of York.

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