. Liber Estriae; or, Memorials of the royal ville and parish of Eastry, in the county of Kent . nce of many of thefublcribers, who exprelled themfelves as highly pleafed and gratified withthe arrangements of the building. The rooms of this School were, however, of low pitch, were heatedonly by a fingle ftove, placed at the angle where the girls and boys*fchools met, and were floored with brick. i88 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. Thus as time went on it was felt that thefe fchools were neither fuffi-ciently airy nor warm, comfortable nor commodious. And, therefore,like as the fchools of 1840 fuperfeded t
. Liber Estriae; or, Memorials of the royal ville and parish of Eastry, in the county of Kent . nce of many of thefublcribers, who exprelled themfelves as highly pleafed and gratified withthe arrangements of the building. The rooms of this School were, however, of low pitch, were heatedonly by a fingle ftove, placed at the angle where the girls and boys*fchools met, and were floored with brick. i88 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. Thus as time went on it was felt that thefe fchools were neither fuffi-ciently airy nor warm, comfortable nor commodious. And, therefore,like as the fchools of 1840 fuperfeded the old long room in the clerkshoufe of 1574, fo thefe too in their turn gave place to the prefent hand-fome and commodious flrudiure, which combines a picflurefque appear-ance with a thorough adaptation of every part to its particular ufe. By the laudable and painftaking efforts of the Revd. Charles Carus-Wilfon, then vicar,fubfcriptions, amounting to upwards of ^950, were raifedfor building new fchools; and, on the 5th November, 1859, thefe fchoolswere opened for the reception of THE NEW SCHOOLS. The prefent fchools contain what the former did not—viz., a feparateinfant fchool, in addition to the boys and girls fchools and are alfo admirably adapted for all kinds of parochial meetings,Icdlures, 6cc., inafmuch as, by means of folding and Hiding doors, all threefchool rooms can be thrown into one. The bell which daily—with the exception of Saturday—fummons theyouth of both fexes to fchool, is hung outfide the boys fchool. Itis an ancient one, is fuppofed to have been an old fliips bell, and bears MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 189 the following infcription embofTed round the crown ; the letters are nearlyan inch in height:— where we fee that the R in GRACIA has been turned uplide down incafting. Between the AVE and the MARIA, as alfo between the MARIAand GRACIA, is the medallion of a kings head, though of what kingI have been unable to difcover. The fcho
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