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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


photograph
BLO11.jpg (taken 12.1.2006)  
photograph
BLO12.jpg  Date stone:-
"RB 1563" (taken 12.1.2006)  

evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
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.""

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Tudor Restaurant
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TUDOR RESTAURANT / 3 / KING STREET / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72876 / NY5161330114"
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."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Tudor Restaurant
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TUDOR RESTAURANT / / ST ANDREW'S PLACE / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72933 / NY5161730119"
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."

evidence:-   old print:- Robertson 1911
source data:-   Print, lithograph? Old House, Penrith, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
image  click to enlarge
RSN112.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

evidence:-   old painting:- 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, In St Andrew's Place, Penrith, Cumberland, by Edward Arthur 'Evacustes' Phipson, 1905.
image  click to enlarge
PR0838.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


photograph
BUA58.jpg (taken 10.2.2011)  

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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