2015

SP3379 : The Old Grammar School (interior)

taken 9 years ago, near to Coventry, England

The Old Grammar School (interior)
The Old Grammar School (interior)
The main hall of the recently restored old grammar school ( SP3379 : The Old Grammar School ). The black wooden stalls, believed to date from the 15th century, were former choir stalls in Whitefriars monastery, where the school endowed by John Hales was first located and came here with the move of the school. They display several examples of 17th and 18th century schoolboy carved graffiti.

The medieval sandstone building was formerly the chapel of the Hospital of St John, founded in the 12th century and rebuilt in the 14th century. The hospital was dissolved in 1545 (Dissolution of the Monasteries) and purchased by John Hales who undertook to provide a school which remained here until moving to a new building in Warwick Road in 1885.

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E Gammie   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 13 September, 2015   (more nearby)
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Sunday, 13 September, 2015
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OSGB36: geotagged! SP 3339 7930 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:24.6414N 1:30.6335W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SP 3337 7930
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