Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Hawkshead Grammar School | |
| locality:- | Hawkshead | |
| parish |
Hawkshead parish, once in
Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| school; grammar school | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD35269797 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD39
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| 1Km square | SD3597 | |
 Hawkshead Grammar School -- Hawkshead -- Hawkshead -- Cumbria / -- 16.9.2005 | ||
 Hawkshead Grammar School -- Hawkshead -- Hawkshead -- Cumbria / -- Plaque above door, commemorating Rev Edwin Sandys of Hawkshead, Archbishop of York, who founded the school, 1585. -- 16.9.2005 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Lan 5 2)
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| 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. | ||
| Hawkshead Free Grammar School | ||
| placename:- | Hawkshead Free Grammar School | |
| school | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| source:- |
Martineau 1855
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| Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71. | ||
| Page 29:- | ||
| ... At the ancient Grammar School of Hawkshead, Wordsworth and his brother were educated. | ||
| person:- | : Wordsworth, William | |
| person:- | : Wordsworth, John | |
| date:- | 1855 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
| descriptive text:- |
Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
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| Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52. | ||
| Page 16:- | ||
| [Hawkshead] ... The Grammar-school, founded by Archbishop Sandys, has produced many eminent scholars. | ||
| Page 158:- | ||
| ... | ||
| [Hawkshead] ... The Free Grammar School has been the nursing mother of many eminent scholars. ... | ||
| placename:- | Grammar School, The | |
| other name:- | Free Grammar School, The | |
| person:- | : Sandys, Archbishop | |
| date:- | 1839 | |
| period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| HAWKSHEAD GRAMMAR SCHOOL / / MAIN STREET / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76852 / SD3523698038 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| School, now museum. 1675, entrance rebuilt 1888, windows 1891. Roughcast stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. 3:2:2-light ovolo-mullioned windows, those to ground floor with 3-centred heads to lights, and label moulds to 1st floor windows; leaded glazing. Entrance between 1st and 2nd bays has architrave, pulvinated frieze with panel dated 1585; above, a plaque with armorial bearing and memorial inscription to the founder, and date 1675 (placed there by the builder) under consoled cornice, the brackets with incised decoration, with scrolly pediment and crest; above, an obliquely set sundial in eared and shouldered architrave. Rainwater head dated 1891. Left return has projecting gable-end stack with round shaft on square base. Right return has 4-light windows, with 3-light window to rear wing, which has gable-end and cross-axial stacks with round shafts. Interior has chamfered beams; elliptical-headed fireplace. Fixed benches and desks covered with the carved names of pupils. Panelled door with strap hinges leads to stone dog-leg stair. The school was founded by Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, in 1585, and built by Daniel Rawlinson. in 1675. Its most famous pupil was William Wordsworth, who attended 1778-1787, and whose name is carved on a desk. | ||
| placename:- | Hawkshead Grammar School | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD35239803 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| old print:- |
Robertson 1911
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| Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. | ||
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| Print, lithograph? Schoolroom, Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. | ||
| Tipped in opposite p.68 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. | ||
| printed at bottom:- | ||
| SCHOOLROOM, HAWKSHEAD / (Wordsworth's name cut on desk) | ||
| signed at painting lower left:- | ||
| Arthur Tucker | ||
| date:- | 1911 | |
| period:- | 1910s | |
| old print:- | ||
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| Print, uncoloured engraving, The Free Grammar School, Hawkshead, Lancashire, engraved by C and A Young, Edinburgh, published 1870. | ||
| On p.91 of Furness, Past and Present. | ||
| printed at lower left:- | ||
| C&A YOUNG EDINR. | ||
| printed at bottom:- | ||
| THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HAWKSHEAD. | ||
| placename:- | Free Grammar School, The | |
| date:- | 1870 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late | |
| sketch map:- | ||
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| Sketch map on display in Hawkshead Grammar School | ||
| photographs | ||
| Hawkshead Grammar School -- Hawkshead -- Hawkshead -- Cumbria / -- 16.9.2005 | |
| Hawkshead Grammar School -- Hawkshead -- Hawkshead -- Cumbria / -- List of masters:- -- 'This school was founded & endowed with Lands &c to the Value of 50 p.Annum by Edwin Sandys, A, bp of York, 1585, ...' -- 16.9.2005 | |
| Hawkshead Grammar School -- Hawkshead -- Hawkshead -- Cumbria / -- Accounts kept by Ann Tyson with whom William Wordsworth lodged, 1783. -- 16.9.2005 | |
| hearsay |
Founded by Archbishop Sandys, 1585; closed 1909. William
Wordsworth went to school here. Another pupil was the
astronomer William Pearson, 18th century.
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| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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