Dame Agnes Mellers founded Nottingham High School in 1513, after the death of her husband, Richard. In order to do this she enlisted the help of Sir Thomas Lovell, who was both the Governor of Nottingham Castle and Secretary to the Treasury and, as a result of their combined efforts, King Henry VIII sealed the School’s foundation on the 22nd November that year. Since 1868 the School has been located at Waverley Mount to the north of the City centre, looking down towards the site of its humble beginnings in St. Mary’s Church.
The Junior School, founded in 1905, is an integral part of the foundation of Nottingham High School and is jointly administered by the Trustee Governors as a Charitable Trust. It began its life in a semi-detached house on the north side of Waverley Mount, moving, just after the Second World War, into six classrooms at the northern end of the west wing of the Senior School. The Junior School remained in these classrooms until 1978 when it moved back to the site of its earliest days and into its present purpose-built accommodation.
