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The history of the sing school at York Minster is a fascinating account. It is arguavly the oldest school in Britain, quite a clim to fame. A complete history is unavailable, but a great deal of information is available during many historical periods. Choir or song schools are some of Britain's earlist schools. Presumably some schools exosted during the Roman era, butthere is no surviving information on indivisual schools and none survived the Anglo-Saxom invasions. Christianity itself was extinguished. As Britain was reChristinized, the first schools would have been those attached to monastaries or cathedrals. One of those was a song school at York. The origins are lost in the fog of early Anglo-Saxon history. Scholars have developed two principal theories. One theirizes that James the Deacon founded it (627 AD). Another dates the song school to Norman tumes (12th century). The Normans raised the early York Minster and built the magnificent modern cathedral in the center of York. It is of course possible that song schools existed at both times. In modern times the Sing Schooll was closed (1887) and reponed (1903). We do not have a lot of information on uniforms throughout the school's history. We note a boy in 1913 wearing a turle-neck sweater with the crossed keys that are the symbol of the school (figure 1). We note boys in the 1980s wearing both grey suits and cherry red blazers.
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