Listed Building: THE LATIN SCHOOL WYE COLLEGE (1217080)

Grade I
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1414, 8, 266
Date assigned 13 October 1952
Date last amended

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

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 0546 4683 (point)
Map sheet TR04NE
Civil Parish WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

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Record last edited

Jun 3 2010 1:46PM