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| school, Kirkby Stephen | ||
| Kirkby Stephen Grammar School | ||
| Street:- | Vicarage Lane | |
| locality:- | Kirkby Stephen | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Stephen (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| coordinates:- | NY77560880 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7708 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY70 | |
| references:- | Simpson 1746 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 15) |
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| 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. "Free Grammar School" |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Simpson 1746 placename:- Kirkby Stephen placename:- Stephen's Church item:- market; fair; stockings |
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| source data:- | Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as
'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller
...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746. goto sourcePage 1024:- "..." "Kirkby Stephen, ... a Free-School founded and endowed by the Family of Wharton. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of
Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards,
scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas
Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John
Bowles, London, 1760. BO18NY71.jpg cross potent, charity school item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) item:- market; stockings |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. Page 156:- "..." "Kirkby Stephen ... Here is a freeschool, founded by Thomas first lord Wharton in the reign of Elizabeth." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag |
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| 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. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.324 "KIRKBY-STEPHEN, founded in 1566, by Thomas Lord Wharton, and endowed by him and others with various benefactions. There are exhibitions both to Oxford and Cambridge for scholars educated here." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FORMER GRAMMAR SCHOOL / / VICARAGE LANE / KIRKBY STEPHEN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73017 / NY7756508802" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "School, founded 1566. Coursed, squared, rubble with chamfered plinth. Graduated stone-flagged roof with stone copings and kneelers. Bellcote to south end, brick chimney to north end. 2 storeys. West elevation has numerous blocked openings in addition to one 16-paned sash next to plank door at north end. 1st floor band; single sash with glazing bars to each end above. Much restored Perpendicular window with hood-mould in south gable." |
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| notes:- |
site of a hall |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6 |
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