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| school, Stainmore (2) | ||
| South Stainmore School | ||
| locality:- | South Stainmore | |
| civil parish:- | Stainmore (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school (once) | |
| coordinates:- | NY84101298 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY8412 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY81 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| attached to the rear of St Stephen's Church. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 24 1) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Free Grammar School" "" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.325 "STANEMORE, in the parish of Brough, founded in 1594, by Cuthbert Buckle, who by his will left 8l. a year, payable out of his estate at Spittle. In 1699 Thomas Earl of Thanet repaired the Chapel, and built a School-house near it, and enclosed a large track of waste land for the benefit and profit of the Curate and Schoolmaster." |
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| hearsay:- |
A school was built and endowed with a bequest from Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Lord Mayor
of London, 1594 (or 1600); it became a chapel in 1608; rebuilt 1842-43 by Lord Thanet;
refurbished about 1911; closed 1970. |
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