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Bampton Grammar School, Bampton Grange
Bampton Grammar School
St Patrick's Church Hall
Tinclar's Library
locality:-   Bampton Grange
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
locality type:-   library
locality type:-   village hall
coordinates:-   NY52111802
1Km square:-   NY5218
10Km square:-   NY51
SummaryText:-   this is not the original building

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BNK36.jpg (taken 23.3.2007)  
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BNK37.jpg  Plaque on S wall:-
"IMPENSIS CIVIUM LONDIN AUTHORE / THOMA SUTTON S:TH.D.LIB / EF A HAEC SCHOLA GRAMAT. FU / NDATA EST ANNO DOM. 1623" (taken 23.3.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Grammar School (Endowed)"
evidence:-   probably old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1820 part 2 p.21  "To settle the spleen of 'Oxoniensis,' I will, with your permission, Mr. Urban, relate an anecdote of a young student of a minor School, - that of Banton in Westmoreland. The Free School of Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, becoming vacant by the death of Mr. Wilson, a Graduate of Queen's College, Oxford, but the gift not being in any of the Colleges, there was an open competition: a day was appointed for the examination of candidates, and the Rev. Dr. Burn, author of the 'Justice,' &c. the examiner. Two Graduates entered the lists for fame, as did also the scholar from Banton. Homer, Horace, and Virgil, were first given into the hands of the Graduates, but their stumblings"
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1820
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Gentleman's Magazine 1820 part 2 p.22  "and stoppings were manifest, whilst Northern Lights ambled over his ground as over a bowling-green. The last book given to the competitors was Clarke's introduction. It was opened at Bellum antiquissimum cujus occurrit mentio: but in this war of the Argonauts the College heroes were entirely defeated; neither hoods, scarfs, nor tippets, were, under Dr. Burn, even a dust upon the balance: nothing but sterling merit preponderated, and, consequently, the Graduates retired crest-fallen, whilst the Banton stripling, about 20 years of age (Mr. Holmes), was declared victor, amidts the cheers and applause of an admiring assembly."
"SUPERBIAE CASTIGATOR"
"PROBITATISQUE VINDEX."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.323  "Rosegill, Oct. 2."
"..."
"BAMPTON, founded in 1623, by Thomas Sutton, D.D. a native of this parish, and Rector od St. Saviour's, Southwark, and endowed by him with 500l. which was expended in the purchase of tithes of corn and hay in the parish of Bampton. Iin 1724 the Rev. Wm. Stephenson, a native of this parish, and Rector of Laxton, in the county of Nottingham, bequeathed the sum of 150l. equally between the Church and School at Bampton, which was laid out in the purchase of lands at Bomby in this parish. In 1816 John Noble, esq. of London, a native of this parish, gave 500l. in the 3 per cents. the interest of which to be paid to the Master for the time being."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.515  "Compendium of County History. - Westmorland."
"... In the Free Grammar School, besides an innumerable list of eminent characters, were educated Dr. John Mill, famous for his edition of the New Testament; and Bishop Gibson. - Bishop Law obtained his classical rudiments at Measand School."
evidence:-   presumably descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 137:-  "..."
"At Bampton is a free-school, which has produced many great scholars, especially Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and the late Judge Wilson. ..."

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BQF95.jpg  Portrait of John Boustead, vicar and master of Bampton Grammar School, died 1841; in St Patrick's Church.
(taken 11.3.2009)  

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BUA46.jpg  Gate and railings.
(taken 10.2.2011)  
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BUA47.jpg  Porch.
(taken 10.2.2011)  
hearsay:-  
 Rev Jonathan Tinclar founded a trust with a gift of L50, in 1750, to provide the vicars of the parish with a library of books on theology, law, and science. Part of the money was used to purchase a field whose rent supported the library, and part to buy books. Other books, from 1710 onwards, came from Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London and from Lord Lonsdale.
Jonathan Tinclar, rector of Addlethorpe, Lincolnshire, came from a Westmorland family and was probably educated at Bampton Grammar School.

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