Description

TR 0446 0546 WYE HIGH STREET
(north side)

8/266 The Latin School
13.10.52 Wye College

GV I

Schoolroom. Circa 1445 for Cardinal Archbishop John Kempe. Flint, in
part refaced with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Single storey with hipped
roof, and with 2 paired and 1 single four centred arched and label-hooded
lights to road front, boarded door to left return with cusped light, both
with label heads, and moulded doorway to right return. Wooden casements
(in outshot) to north side. Interior: fireplace similar to that in the
Parlour, Old Wye College; four centred ovolo moulded with fernleaf
spandrels, with refined florid strapwork overmantel. Ogee headed panelled
wall cupboards below the central window to south. Probably originally
twice the size to north (hence the brick rebuilding). Built as, and used
even after Dissolution, the Grammar School for both Kempe's original College
and the Grammar School which succeeded it. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 506;
Hasted VII 354 ff).

Listing NGR: TR0546346836

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529371

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