The Old Grammar School, Up Holland

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224522

Reference identifier

suh10112007046

Title

The Old Grammar School, Up Holland

Place

Up Holland

General notes

Richard Leigh of the Abbey in 1656 gave 52s annual rent for the benefit of the poor until a free school was built. Built 1659-60 and anyone with an income of £6. 13s.4d made a contribution and whose incomes were under that were entitled to send their children free of charge. in 1668 Robert Walthew of Pemberton gave the school farm at Newgate to guarantee an income of £24 per annum. During the Napoleonic wars it became a boarding school utilising a Georgian house near the church. In 1875 the upper school moved to a Georgian house half-a-mile away and the old building was sold for£200.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Original image size

15/7.5 cm

Subjects

EDUCATION > Secondary Schools

Place Names > Up Holland

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