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| school, Penrith (3) | ||
| Penrith School | ||
| Street:- | St Andrew's Place | |
| locality:- | Penrith | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | school (once) | |
| coordinates:- | NY51613012 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5130 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
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 BLO11.jpg (taken 12.1.2006)  BLO12.jpg Date stone:- "RB 1563" (taken 12.1.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p131.txt Page 131:- "..." "That the Castle was at least once rebuilt seems certain. ... Now the place is a ruin, a condition it owes to the Penrith people themselves, who early in the time of Queen Elizabeth considered they had a more pressing need for a prison than a fortress, and accordingly with thirty loads of stone, erected a very secure, if not very comfortable, gaol. At the same period, Robert Bartram, a merchant of the town, built himself a house from the same materials; and there it stands to this day in the churchyard, inscribed "R. B. 1563."" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Tudor Restaurant |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TUDOR RESTAURANT / 3 / KING STREET / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72876 / NY5161330114" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "See also King Street. The later King Street frontage is now joined at the rear with a C16 house, dated 1563 RB (Robert Bartram). Painted stone. Original gabled wing has 2 storeys of old windows - lower one on ground level - with 4 round-headed lights, small panes and hollow-chamfered stone mullions. A stringcourse above upper window, and small square opening in gable. To right of wing is of later appearance, with shaped doorway below ground level, and 2 sash windows on each of 3 storeys, most with glazing bars, and a round-headed stair Window." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Tudor Restaurant |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TUDOR RESTAURANT / / ST ANDREW'S PLACE / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72933 / NY5161730119" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "See St Andrew's Place for original facade. The King Street front is C18, altered C20. Stuccoed, long and short quoins, 3 storeys. Ground floor has 2 convex shop windows with small panes and double doors, and fascia across whole ground floor. First floor has 2 wide modern windows. Top floor has 4 sashes. Cornice. Gabled dormer on roof." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Robertson 1911 |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph? Old House, Penrith, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published
by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. click to enlargeRSN112.jpg Tipped in opposite p.38 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. printed at bottom:- "OLD HOUSE, PENRITH / (Faint tradition says, Dame Birkett's School)" signed at painting lower left:- "Arthur Tucker" item:- JandMN : 197.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, In St Andrew's Place, Penrith, Cumberland, by Edward Arthur
'Evacustes' Phipson, 1905. click to enlargePR0838.jpg Deserted street depicting a row of town buildings of differing periods; the central one, the side of which is caught in slanting sunlight, dated 1563. inscribed & signed &dated at bottom left:- "Penrith 1905 Evacustes A Phipson" annotated at reverse:- "In St Andrew's Churchyard" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1907.12.4 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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 BUA58.jpg (taken 10.2.2011) |
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| hearsay:- |
The house, perhaps called Bishops Yards, is believed to have been the home of Roger
Bertram. It was later a dame school run by Ann Birkett; Wiliam Wordsworth and his
sister Dorothy and also Mary Hutchinson? probably attended here about 1776. |
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