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Hawkshead Grammar School, Hawkshead
Hawkshead Grammar School
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Hawkshead
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   SD35239804
1Km square:-   SD3598
10Km square:-   SD39

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BJV32.jpg (taken 16.9.2005)  
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BJV36.jpg  Plaque above door, commemorating Rev Edwin Sandys of Hawkshead, Archbishop of York, who founded the school, 1585.
(taken 16.9.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) 
placename:-  Hawkshead Free Grammar School
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.
"Hawkshead Free Grammar School"
evidence:-   sketch map:- 
source data:-   image  click to enlarge
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Sketch map on display in Hawkshead Grammar School 
evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 146:-  "..."
"... At Hawkshead is a grammar-school endowed with one hundred pounds salary; the present master and usher are both Fellows of Colleges, and have upwards of one hundred boys under their care: this school is very beneficial both to the town and neighbourhood, by the number of gentlemens sons boarded there; it also makes this place much resorted to by the families who visit their children here in Summer; ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
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.
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Page 143:-  "..."
"Hawkshead, the 4th market town in Furness, is built in an odd fashion, the birth-place of archbishop Sandys, who here founded a grammar-school ... Inscription over the school-house:"
"Memoriae reverendi D.D. Edwini Sandys, Ebor. olim archiepiscopi scholae hujus fundatoris Daniel Rawlinson civis Londini Graisdalea com' Lanc' oriundus posuit, A.D 1675."
"Mr. Rawlinson was a considerable benefactor."
evidence:-   old advertisement:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
source data:-   Advertisement for globes
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item:-  JandMN : 228
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Grammar School, The
placename:-  Free Grammar School, The
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 16:-  "[Hawkshead] ... The Grammar-school, founded by Archbishop Sandys, has produced many eminent scholars."
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Page 158:-  "..."
"[Hawkshead] ... The Free Grammar School has been the nursing mother of many eminent scholars. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 29:-  "... At the ancient Grammar School of Hawkshead, Wordsworth and his brother were educated."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  sundial
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Hawkshead Grammar School, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS248
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  school desk; fireplace; door
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Hawkshead Grammar School, schoolroom, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS250
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Hawkshead Grammar School, before alterations, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS249
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evidence:-   old print:- Bradley 1901
placename:-  School House, The
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, The School House, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.
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On page 201 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. 
printed at bottom:-  "The School House, Hawkshead."
item:-  JandMN : 464.48
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Hawkshead Grammar School
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HAWKSHEAD GRAMMAR SCHOOL / / MAIN STREET / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76852 / SD3523698038"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School, now museum. 1675, entrance rebuilt 1888, windows 1891. Roughcast stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. 3:2:2-light ovolo-mullioned windows, those to ground floor with 3-centred heads to lights, and label moulds to 1st floor windows; leaded glazing. Entrance between 1st and 2nd bays has architrave, pulvinated frieze with panel dated 1585; above, a plaque with armorial bearing and memorial inscription to the founder, and date 1675 (placed there by the builder) under consoled cornice, the brackets with incised decoration, with scrolly pediment and crest; above, an obliquely set sundial in eared and shouldered architrave. Rainwater head dated 1891. Left return has projecting gable-end stack with round shaft on square base. Right return has 4-light windows, with 3-light window to rear wing, which has gable-end and cross-axial stacks with round shafts. Interior has chamfered beams; elliptical-headed fireplace. Fixed benches and desks covered with the carved names of pupils. Panelled door with strap hinges leads to stone dog-leg stair. The school was founded by Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, in 1585, and built by Daniel Rawlinson. in 1675. Its most famous pupil was William Wordsworth, who attended 1778-1787, and whose name is carved on a desk."
evidence:-   old print:- Robertson 1911
source data:-   Print, lithograph? Schoolroom, Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
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Tipped in opposite p.68 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. 
printed at bottom:-  "SCHOOLROOM, HAWKSHEAD / (Wordsworth's name cut on desk)"
signed at painting lower left:-  "Arthur Tucker"
item:-  JandMN : 197.17
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
placename:-  Hawkshead Grammar School
item:-  sundial
source data:-   Print, etching? Hawkshead Grammar School, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.18 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower right:-  "Hawkshead Grammar school"
item:-  JandMN : 382.6
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Free Grammar School, The
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, The Free Grammar School, Hawkshead, Lancashire, engraved by C and A Young, Edinburgh, published 1870.
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On p.91 of Furness, Past and Present. 
printed at lower left:-  "C&A YOUNG EDINR."
printed at bottom:-  "THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HAWKSHEAD."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.219
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 sundial

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BZI17.jpg (taken 20.9.2013)  
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BJV35.jpg  List of masters:-
"This school was founded & endowed with Lands &c to the Value of 50 p.Annum by Edwin Sandys, A, bp of York, 1585, ..." (taken 16.9.2005)  
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BZI16.jpg  Carved on a desk:-
"W. WORDSWORTH" (taken 16.9.2005)  
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BJV33.jpg  Accounts kept by Ann Tyson with whom William Wordsworth lodged, 1783.
(taken 16.9.2005)  

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BZI11.jpg  Terrestrial globe, John Cary, 1831.
(taken 20.9.2013)  courtesy of David Warren
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BZI12.jpg  Terrestrial globe, John Cary, 1831.
(taken 20.9.2013)  courtesy of David Warren
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BZI13.jpg  Terrestrial globe, John Cary, 1831.
(taken 20.9.2013)  courtesy of David Warren
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BZI14.jpg  Celestial globe, John Cary, 1805?
(taken 20.9.2013)  courtesy of David Warren
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BZI15.jpg  Celestial globe, John Cary, 1805?
(taken 20.9.2013)  courtesy of David Warren
hearsay:-  
 Founded by Archbishop Sandys, 1585; closed 1909. William Wordsworth went to school here. Another pupil was the astronomer William Pearson, 18th century.
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