Old Grammar School
'… a word concerning the vanities and exorbitances of many women in painting, patching, spotting and blotting themselves… to enamour and ensnare others and to kindle a fire and flame of lust in the hearts of those that cast their eyes upon them.'
Thomas Hall, School Master and Puritan, taught at the Old Grammar School 1629-1662 'Two Suffragettes have entered here, but, charmed with this old-world room, have refrained from their design of destruction.'
Notice written on the school's blackboard and reported in the Morning Post, 7th April 1913
Thomas Hall, School Master and Puritan, taught at the Old Grammar School 1629-1662 'Two Suffragettes have entered here, but, charmed with this old-world room, have refrained from their design of destruction.'
Notice written on the school's blackboard and reported in the Morning Post, 7th April 1913
- One of the oldest school buildings in the country
- Massive oak roof timbers felled between 1434 and 1460
- Faint but visible, remnants of Tudor decoration thought to have been scratched into the woodwork to ward off evil spirits
- Fletcher marks where yeomen of the village sharpened their arrow heads and marks on the window mullions where generations of students sharpened their ‘pen knives’ to cut nib shapes on quill pens.
