Blundell's School, Tiverton
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Author : William Morris

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      Some three years ago the governors of Blundell's School at Tiverton, being pressed
      for want of room determined to sell the old school buildings and remove the school
      to another site: at that time our society in conjunction with some of the townsmen
      and neighbors of Tiverton, tried very hard to induce the governors not to desert
      the ancient home of their famous school, or at all events if they were driven to do
      so to find some public use for the beautiful buildings which were atthat time the
      most perfect example left us of a grammar school of the early seventeenth century:
      since all the fittings so carefully planned by the founder were still in their
      original places.
    
    
      Our protest was fruitless, and the buildings were sold to a private person, but we
      were told that a condition was to be attached that they should not be demolished or
      dismantled. This did not reassure is much at the time, and I am sorry to say that
      we have just received a confirmation of our fears; for a correspondent has informed
      us that he has been offered by a builder the curious and beautiful screen
      that used to divide the Upper school from the Lower.
    
    
      I do not know whether there is room to hope that the loss of the buildings of
      Blundell's School may be averted; but I venture to ask leave to publish in your
      columns the fact that they seem to be doomed in the hope that the public spirit of
      the men of Devon may be awakened and find some means of preventing this loss to the
      public, this disgrace to their own county.
    
    
      Letter to the Daily News, 23 February 1883.  
    


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     Blundell's School, Tiverton -- Added : February 20, 2021

     Blundell's School, Tiverton -- Updated : January 07, 2022

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