Repton Public School Main Buildings and Grounds including the library and Quadrant, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, UK
Sir John Port of Etwall died on 6 June 1557 without a male heir and his bequests funds to found a "Grammar School in Etwalle or Reptone", where the scholars every day were to pray for the souls of his parents and other relatives. In 1559 the executors of Sir John Port's will purchased from the Thacker family, for £ (£), the land which had once housed a twelfth-century Augustinian Priory, and the accompanying buildings which had survived Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries and subsequent upheavals, namely, the Guest Chamber and Prior's Lodging (which as the Old Priory currently houses the School Library and Common Room), Overton's Tower (now part of School House), the Tithe Barn, and the Arch, which is all that now remains of the priory's original gatehouse and which helped inspire the School's motto: porta vacat culpa.
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Location: Repton, Derbyshire, England
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