The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-06 00:00:00

easalioants.
KING'S SCliouL, SIIERBORNE.

The Baildc • of Septeuiber 3rii contains an admirable
illustratim f too now filing's School 13if1h:Wiwi,
Sherburne, with tho following column:ma:—

.1* me school I. out, ilie e ether loaudetioue of E I ward
VI., and occupied •t. awl. .11411 I,Ulittlags lareCt4.l
pas tidily .0 the sites of :he Loly Gospel at the &bloat an.l
of toe Ca.pol of S. limy-Le-bow att.ctied to it Towed
origw.aieceooi bUIIUIU .till exist, aud are u•ed ao two
dining-heti of the whoolbuuse, and fur Aims. Toe
oriolia. edify of Ma founder stands over th. an s of the
hall ; gralusLy the school incrsseed, and in ware modern
tanall C4d uuildiues ' were with others bull
age wit the walla of the ambuuttory 01 WO choir, bull wee
not until uudir the loa•clusautersam of the Rev. 11. 1).
Harper (,ow principal at Jams College, ()E.ora) 1/141. telo
IlVatn,l.silitloll importauca.
In 1853 me let.. DiAby pieesolied to the governors
of tto ocaool • blocs of builaiogi 00 tau uorte aide o: thu
islowy church, toots third iss UIIIL. ; thy coosiet.d ot IDa
aUCIout kb i.e. Lod.inpa„ toe A'ouois tied, ill, 114edien
Hail, and • small portion ot the dormitory bowling,
p•rte of three aided of • qusdrangia, of witiM the
abbey cuurch was the Morti. Tnae buildings wore
placed in tn. heads ot the late It. C. Carpen.er, under
whose direction, they were caromily restored. The
Duelists Hull bec sus. the new sahoolroom, the Abbot'.
Mail was couwworated sac chapel, and tue Auts.Vs Lodg•
ings were c inverted into boy.' studies. The wirer story of
040111110 Ralf was used as clieeerooms with an open clotater
sinter the °impel; portions of the cioister are of Norman
dais, the test of the buildings were of the fit mental
century. Ihur, the scbooluouee we.' erected, the chapel
lengthened, and cliuruocut built, wider tlie tate Mr. W.
Slater, chiefly through the liberality of lir. G. D. W.
I)htby, of Sherburne C•stle.
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As the school still cmiunued to increase, and a neer
.C4lllllO 01 tne Commissfooers Davin c.,tne
Into openuon, tresneulargemen.s fled to be umotutskao
from Mr. It. Herber. Capsnter's designs, and they have
been carried out under him end Yr. Beniemio lueelow.
A new great schoolroom has been erected. 8411. uy tb.t.,
to which. hereof ter, are to Le added claersoJmit tic it.
northern sod. . . . .

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The question of the :hapel has been anxiously considered.
and altrroetive plunked Nem prepared fore new one on
toe north sure of the new quadrangie,_ but eventually the
plane were lirrinepd by the Rev. LL D. tisrper, wells the
architect, (.31. eddatig en &ILO to tue vXoLto dispel, Welk
boards.' . &c., of sodi propertions toot eventually the
whole chapel might be mead, and, by the removal of the
temp waxy arcs le, the•res of the USA ought Ire inc.irpor-
&tea in one span will the bed), ea to give • chepel of
Mite impeded dimermons. The present addition to the
chapel, an shown. was designed wadi this idea. The loser
story is of equal h,igtt wilts tne Norman sdbstructure of
the nave, but is (twitted with vaulting and openings to
correepond with the superstructure.
The new rereloa, eith its sculpture, the mut ir's and
cho.r etslls, and the pavement hare been placed as •
memorial to Dr. Hama, who left the schools just as the
works were commence', being succeeded b) the E.,e. E.
H. Young, bits of Hawser.
The conoecung vaulted cloister between the schoolroom
and the chapel are use in course of erection. an I the old
schoolroom is bung diverted into a school library, with
fittings of oak.
The general cmtrecbr for the works is Mr. Sealy. of
Sh irborne, Kr. Walker being clerk of the works.
The material used tithe kcal courted Arne' with dress-
ings of Ham Hai steno and the route are covered with the
local II WWI SIMS&
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The block ol buildings on the left hen I f the •istv Is
the ancient Abbot's Lalgtnys, with Ms private et.trance
from the town (the guar.:see to the " emu." was in tat,
memo)mager:deal p-ojecutio). Next to the chapel—the
sucient ithtxtt'a HMl—with the mearetory of the neve of the
abbot church to werttigover it. Then then: ere the c inn.ct-
tog cloistir, and the Dow schoolroom on the right of the
tie w.