Edited by Patricia Stammers, Sunday, 30 Mar 2014, 19:43
What a picture! Jeff Norman and I went to Botesdale Chapel of Ease, onetime school, and to Redgrave Parish Church today. Jeff took photos of; the architecture, an ancient desk, that was once used by the Botesdale Grammar School pupils and an effigy of the school's founder, Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight. The desk, approximately nine feet in length, three feet breadth, and three feet high is circa sixteenth century, dark with age and richly decorated with doodles. There are holes at intervals along the centre, presumably, to hold candles or inkwells as I've never seen a woodworm of four inches in circumference. The scholars had to provide their own candles and in summer, school began at six in the morning.
A popular headmaster, one Charles Maybourne, sent twenty six boys to Cambridge University. Another master did time in the stocks for drunkeness but in spite of him, the school lasted for three hundred years until the eighteen hundreds. Bad management and lack of funding are cited as the reason for closure.
I'm looking forward to publication of my feature and payment.
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What a picture! Jeff Norman and I went to Botesdale Chapel of Ease, onetime school, and to Redgrave Parish Church today. Jeff took photos of; the architecture, an ancient desk, that was once used by the Botesdale Grammar School pupils and an effigy of the school's founder, Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight. The desk, approximately nine feet in length, three feet breadth, and three feet high is circa sixteenth century, dark with age and richly decorated with doodles. There are holes at intervals along the centre, presumably, to hold candles or inkwells as I've never seen a woodworm of four inches in circumference. The scholars had to provide their own candles and in summer, school began at six in the morning.
A popular headmaster, one Charles Maybourne, sent twenty six boys to Cambridge University. Another master did time in the stocks for drunkeness but in spite of him, the school lasted for three hundred years until the eighteen hundreds. Bad management and lack of funding are cited as the reason for closure.
I'm looking forward to publication of my feature and payment.