Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School (Bolton)
Rivington Lane, Rivington, Bolton BL6 7RU

Badge as depicted in Bunty #127 [18 Jun 1960]



Rivington Grammar school iwas founded by James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham in 1566 when a charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth I

Blackrod Grammar School was founded by John Holmes, a London weaver, in whose will of 1568 rental income from property in London was left to trustees to pay a schoolmaster in Blackrod

Rivington and Blackrod Grammar Schools were amalgamated in 1875

The Rivington and Blackrod High School badge worn on uniforms of pupils uniforms is an embroidered coat of arms of James Pilkington (bishop), a school founder, impaled with the arms of the see of Durham, the arms appear on the top right side of the Pilkington painting, now worn on the breast pocket, school tie and girls skirts in addition to P.E kit, where it also has initials of the schools name, 'R.B.H.S'

The arms of the Bishop were a "Argent a cross patonce Gules, voided by field, on a chief Vert three suns, or with the mark for a second son" awarded to the Bishop in 1561 by Sir Gilbert Dethicke Garter King of Arms. The see of Durham arms are "Azure a Cross Or between four Lions rampant Argent" and are derived from the seal of Robert Nevill, Bishop of Durham from 1438 to 1457.

The original school badge was a design of the coat of arms of the Pilkington family of Lancashire, an escutcheon with an argent cross patonce voided gules and were introduced for the school in 1907 by Rev. W. Ritson, Vicar of Rivington. The mower remains on the school coat of arms, but not on uniforms.[33]

The school seal presented at its foundation, 1566, featured a depiction of the Bishop above the coat of arms of the school and was lost in 1882. The motto on the seal was in Latin and translated to 'who spares the rod spoils the child', the bishop is holding a birch rod in the right hand and bible in the left hand, open at the third chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians, religion being a key element in the early school with the birch and motto indicating use of corporal punishment in education.
[Wikipedia]

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