The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 THE CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
Library of King's School TR 1558 SW 3/16
II GV
2. C19. 2 storeys flint and reused ashlar, 2 parallel ranges. 2 double round-headed arches with Norman style pilasters.
Nos 20 to 29A (consec), Pilgrim's or Pentise entry attached to No 29, wall in garden of No 29, wall and gatepiers between Nos 28 and 29, Gateway from Green Court and building adjoining to left, King's School Library and Norman staircase form a grouip.
Listing NGR: TR1512758116

Description from record TR 15 NE 956:
Parry Hall at the King’s School was requisitioned in July 1941 to house a municipal restaurant, providing cheap but nutritious meals-out to bolster public morale: ‘Adults were charged ninepence, this sum included a meat and sweet course, also soup. Children were charged fourpence for the same amount.’ (Parry Hall replaced the existing municipal restaurant at the Prince of Wales’ Institute on Northgate). In early September 1941 the Principal of the School of Art was asked to arrange for its decoration, and it seems to have opened on 25 of that month. Access was via the excellent ‘Norman’ staircase in Green Court.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Canterbury Emergency Committee, 01/01/41, Emergency Committee papers concerning Parry Hall (Unpublished document). SKE14769.

Williamson C., 01/01/46, Though the Streets Burn (Bibliographic reference). SKE14770.