The Latin School Wye College is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. A Medieval School.
The Latin School Wye College
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-ember-stoat
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- School
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Latin School at Wye College is a schoolroom built around 1445 for Cardinal Archbishop John Kempe. The structure is made of flint, partially refaced with red brick, and features a plain tiled roof. It is a single-storey building with a hipped roof, showcasing two paired and one single four-centred arched lights with label hoods on the front facing the road. There is a boarded door on the left side with a cusped light, both adorned with label heads, and a moulded doorway on the right side. The north side has wooden casements in an outshot.
Inside, there is a fireplace similar to that found in the Parlour of Old Wye College, featuring a four-centred ovolo moulding with fernleaf spandrels and a refined florid strapwork overmantel. Below the central window on the south side, there are ogee-headed panelled wall cupboards. The building was likely originally twice its current size to the north, which accounts for the brick rebuilding. It was established as the Grammar School for Kempe's original College and continued to serve as a Grammar School even after the Dissolution.
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