Tattershall College was a grammar school in

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. The college was established in 1439 and the building that still stands today was constructed between 1454 and 1460. This building was built by the 3rd Baron Cromwell for the

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of the church

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s and was once a splendid example of the perpendicular style of

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. It was a 2-storey, brick-built building with arched doorways and one large room above another large room. It was similar in form to the 1484 built, Grammar School in Wainfleet. George Nathaniel Curzon. Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and

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In the 1530s, due to benefactions of fellows, the ex-choristers were given precedence to apply for scholarships at

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. Although the school was formally dissolved in 1545, when it was owned by

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. It is thought that teaching may have continued for some years afterwards. A timber almshouse attached to the college was built by a carpenter Henry Halsebroke for the warden John Gigur in 1486. It was sited near the churchyard. It had a hall, chapel, and buttery and rooms for 13 pensioners or bedesmen. In the late 18th century, it was converted into a brewery before being left empty and allowed to deteriorate into the ruin that it now is with those walls that remain standing shored up by modern brick.

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is managing the site.

References

Pastscape - Tattershall College

External links

Page at English Heritage
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