Cirencester Grammar School

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Cirencester Grammar School was an historic school in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

The school was founded in 1461 and had a history of over 500 years, finally closing in July 1966 as part of a government reorganisation in education. In September 1966 it became part of Cirencester School (combining with the Deer Park Secondary Modern School) and took no new First Form, who went directly to the Cirencester Deer Park School.

Eventually the old CGS forms moved to the Deer Park altogether. The Victoria Road Grammar School site still exists and is now a Junior School, remaining much as it was in 1966. It played an important and distinguished role in the education of the people of Cirencester and the surrounding area.

One of its most famous pupils was Edward Jenner who invented the process of inoculation to control infectious diseases. Another famous pupil was the cricketer, Wally Hammond, whose centenary was celebrated at a reunion in Cirencester on 11 October 2003.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was music master at the school from 1959 to 1962, and it was here that he started his life-long association with writing works for non-specialist children to perform. He wrote many works for the school's orchestra and choir, including O Magnum Mysterium.