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Monument details

Summary

The Garrison school, which is located to the north west of the Church of St. Mary, was constructed in 1858 as part of a generous scheme of expansion and modernisation undertaken within the castle during and after the Crimean War (1853-1856). This building forms part of the mid-19th cent move to improve the education of soldiers and their children. It consists of a single storey stone-built schoolroom of ragstone with ashlar openings, now the Church Hall, with the two-storeyed school-master’s house attached at its western end. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• SCHOOL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The Garrison school, which is located to the north west of the Church of St. Mary, was constructed in 1858 as part of a generous scheme of expansion and modernisation undertaken within the castle during and after the Crimean War (1853-1856). This building forms part of the mid-19th cent.
move to improve the education of soldiers and their children. It consists of a single storey stone-built schoolroom of ragstone with ashlar openings, now the Church Hall, with the two-storeyed school-master’s house attached at its western end. The former schoolroom has had its interior modernised, but the original layout is still apparent (School and schoolmaster’s Quarters divided by a corridor), and it has a roof of timber scissor-trusses with secured by iron rods. The house has been little altered inside. Summarised from sources (1-2)

<1> English Heritage, 2014, Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer (Unpublished document). SKE52105.

<2> Johnathan Coad, 1995, English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover (Monograph). SKE52106.

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