page_title: Malmesbury
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Malmesbury / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Tablet on wall of almshouses in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, describing bequest
context_page_description: Malmesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning focused on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon period it became the site of a monastery famed for its learning and one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of all England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939.
context_section_description: Malmesbury has two primary schools – Malmesbury Church of England Primary School and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School – and a secondary school, Malmesbury School.
caption: Tablet describing charitable bequests on the wall of St John's almshouse[45]
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