incorporates teaching rooms for food technology, graphical products, resistant materials and electronics. This building is shared with Stroud High School. The South Block built in 2005 houses English, Foreign Languages and Computing Science. The old gymnasium has been refurbished and repurposed as a library and school archive. In late 2019, old, derelict original school buildings were refurbished and the History department now occupies them, moving out of the South Block and making way for more English and Maths. These new refurbished buildings are called 'East Block'. The Science department is situated in three buildings, near East Block, one being shared with Stroud High School, and another, which was built later and is more modern. A modern sixth form block serves the students of both the Marling School and Stroud High School. This was the building used by Downfield Sixth Form until the two schools split into having their own sixth forms. Notable alumni Peter Barnes - Dramatist Eugene Paul Bennett, VC - Soldier Mark Chappell - Writer Reginald Clarry - Member of Parliament Rory Cowlam - Vet and TV presenter Prof Philip Dee CBE FRS, Physicist Patric Dickinson - Genealogist and herald Professor Brian Gardiner, palaeontologist and zoologist. Giles Harrison - Physicist Peter Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, - Historian and political journalist Jack Lee - Film director Laurie Lee - Poet, Novelist and screenwriter Tim McInnerny - Actor Roderick Oliver Redman - Professor of Astrophysics and past President of the Royal Astronomical Society Christian Ribeiro - Footballer Carl Trueman - Theologian Colin Walker - Cellist References External links School website School Virtual Learning Environment Stroud Grammar schools in Gloucestershire Academies in Gloucestershire 1887 establishments in England Educational institutions established in 1887