Editing Cuckfield (section)

== Schools ==

Cuckfield is home to [[Warden Park Secondary Academy]], one of the main secondary schools serving the Haywards Heath area and to Holy Trinity CE (A) Primary School,<ref name="holytrinityschool">{{Cite web|url=http://www.holytrinity-cuckfield.w-sussex.sch.uk/web|title=Holy Trinity CE (A) Primary School|website=www.holytrinity-cuckfield.w-sussex.sch.uk}}</ref> Cuckfield.  The latter is one of the oldest schools in the country; it was founded in the early 1500s as the local grammar school.<ref name="archives-school">{{cite web|title=CUCKFIELD: Grammar School and National School|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/0d1bcce3-64f8-4b76-b32b-4dcd1a662120#95|website=The National Archives|access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="county-history">{{cite book|title=A History of the County of Sussex, volume 7, The Rape of Lewes|date=1940|pages=147–163|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56940|access-date=24 April 2017|language=en}}</ref>  The founder was Edward Flower, a London [[merchant tailor]] in about 1512 and endowed by his will in 1521 with lands in [[Westerham]] and £100 to be laid out in other lands.  Other endowments were added, but in 1589, the original endowment was leased at a perpetual rent of £20.  In consequence in 1819, the schoolmaster had an income of a mere £28.8s.0d.  In 1844, as a result of local discontent, the [[Court of Chancery]] made a scheme reorganising the school like a [[National school (England and Wales)|National School]] and the existing National School (established in 1812) was discontinued.  The teaching of [[Latin]] and Greek were discontinued and the fees fixed at a maximum of a [[shilling]].  The teacher no longer had to be a [[clergyman]].

In 1886, the National Society gave £15 and the school formally became a National School.  A proposal to rebuild the school between 1935 and 1950, and money collected for this was returned to the donors.  The school was reorganised again in 1964 under the [[Diocese of Chichester|Chichester]]  [[Diocesan Board of Finance]].  In 1991, the school was rebuilt on a new site.<ref name="archives-school"/>  The old school was acquired by the church in 1992 for use as a church hall.<ref name="church-school">{{cite web|title=The Old School - Holy Trinity Church Cuckfield|url=http://www.holytrinitycuckfield.org/heritage/the-old-school/|website=Holy Trinity Church Cuckfield|access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="canon-cooper">{{cite book|last1=Cooper|first1=Wilbraham V.|last2=Cooper|first2=James Hughes|title=A history of the parish of Cuckfield ...|date=1912|publisher=C. Clarke|location=Haywards Heath|pages=128–148|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/0090417777|access-date=24 April 2017|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[File:Kingsleys, Cuckfield.jpg|thumb|Kingsleys (formerly Attrees), where the Victorian novelist [[Henry Kingsley]] lived]]