2-982-555 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The New Gresham Grammar School at Holt, Norfolk, 1858. 'A large party of the gentry and clergy of the district assembled at Holt...on the invitation of the Prime Warden and a deputation of the Fishmongers' Company of London, to celebrate the reopening of the Gresham Grammar School in that town, founded in 1554 by Sir John Gresham, and of which the company are trustees. The new building is built with red and black bricks, In the style of the period of the original building... [It is] capable of accommodating eighty scholars...A flat roof, of stained pine, divided into square sections, was adopted by the architect in order to admit of dormitories above, should they at any time be needed. The architect is Mr. Suter, the architect of the Fishmongers' Company, and the work was executed by Mr. Orman, of Ipswich'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.