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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) 
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"

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Kirkby Stephen
placename:-  Stephen's Church
item:-  marketfairstockings
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP3P6, button  goto source
Page 1024:-  "..."
"Kirkby Stephen, ... a Free-School founded and endowed by the Family of Wharton. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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.
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cross potent, charity school 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
item:-  marketstockings
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."

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.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."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FORMER GRAMMAR SCHOOL / / VICARAGE LANE / KIRKBY STEPHEN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73017 / NY7756508802"
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."

notes:-  
site of a hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6

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