1716 - Sedbergh School Library, Cumbria
N 54° 19.363 W 002° 31.673
30U E 530707 N 6019531
Sedbergh school's current library building was not always the school library. This site was used for the original grammar school. Grade 2 listed building.
Waymark Code: WMABDG
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/19/2010
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Sedbergh school is an old school with buildings throughout the town. The original school is thought to have been built on the site of the present library.
By 1528, land had been bought, a school built, probably on the site of the present School Library, and the foundation deed had been signed, binding the School to St John's College, Cambridge. This connection with the college probably saved the school during the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII.
The school was endowed as a Grammar school in 1551. School History
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