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| Creator: | Grammar .. |
| Title: | Grammar School at Plympton, Devonshire |
| Imprint: | [s.l.] : [s.n.] |
| Date: | [1820?] |
| Format: | Etching ; 94x131mm |
| Ref. no.: | SC2351 |
| Copies: |
WSL : M SC2351 PLY: I/S |
| Coverage: | Devon . Plympton St.Maurice . Schools . Plympton Grammar School . Exterior . 1820 |
| Last Updated: |
22/12/2004 |
| Associated text: |
Rowe, Samuel. The panorama of Plymouth. Plymouth: Rowes, 1821. p. 282. The Guildhall is a neat building, with the date 1696 on its south front. In the hall, the magisterial business of the borough is transacted; and the dining-room is adorned with a collection of pictures, of the ancestors of the Treby family, and a portrait of himself by Sir Joshua Reynolds, most appropriately placed in the Guildhall of the town, which must always derive unfading lustre from having been the birth place of the parent of British art. By an easy step, we are led to the notice of the endowed Grammar school, over which his father presided. This is a handsome edifice in the gothic style, with large antique windows. Below the school-room, is a spacious piazza, with nine arches, supported by granite pillars, intended and excellently adapted for school-boy sports in rainy weather. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.] |
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