The Stonehenge School was renamed The Stonehenge School, taking pupils aged 11 to 16. An Upper School building and sports hall were built alongside the existing building in the 1970s. The Stonehenge School The Stonehenge School is a small, mixed comprehensive school located in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England for children aged 11 to 16. It has 730 pupils on its roll. The headteacher is Nigel Roper who took over from Andy Packer in 2004. Its logo is an image of Stonehenge. It is divided into a Lower school and Upper school. The site where the school stands was bought in 1938 for a Church
Cultural depictions of Stonehenge and their 1976 "Atomhenge" tour featured a stage set that replicated the monument. Black Sabbath's 1983 album "Born Again" featured an instrumental called "Stonehenge", which led manager Don Arden to suggest a stage set based upon the stones. The plans were mistakenly labelled in metres not feet, so that when the stage set was erected it was three times the desired size - dwarfing the band. The set was only used once, and the incident was famously parodied in the 1984 mockumentary film "This is Spinal Tap" which featured the titular fictional rock band performing a song named "Stonehenge" on