The Hitcham School Plaque, West Street, Coggeshall, Essex. - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

The old Hitcham School was run in one rented room below the clock tower on Market Square on which an advance rent of 500 years had been paid. In 1857 the school became too small for the number of pupils so the trustees of the Hitcham Charity purchased some of the glebe land on West Street for £100 and this school building was erected. The trustees, in the person of the Vicar, purchased St. Nicholas’ chapel, the derelict gate-house of the long-destroyed Cistercian abbey and in 1859 the school in West Street was opened opposite Paycocke's in West Street. It closed in 1912 and it is now flats and offices, the exterior having been recently restored.

The blue plaque can be found above the window on the east wing. It reads:-

                         HITCHAM SCHOOL
                            1859-1912
                       A SCHOOL WAS BUILT
                          HERE IN 1858
                        BY THE TRUSTEES
                            OF THE
                       SIR ROBERT HITCHAM
                            CHARITY

...and round the rim:- COGGESHALL HERITAGE SOCIETY - FROM FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE STANLEY PRENTICE LEGACY - OCT 2002.

Blue Plaque managing agency: Coggeshall Heritage Society. Individual Recognized: Hitcham School Physical Address: Hitcham 30 West Street Coggeshall , Essex UK CO6 1NS Web Address: Not listed

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