Guisborough, The Grammar School 1891
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In 1887 the Board of Governors of the newly reconstituted Guisborough Grammar School commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, an eminent Victorian architect, most famous for designing the Natural History Museum in London, to design the new Grammar School buildings and the headmaster's house (right), seen here shortly after their completion. The Chairman of the Board of Governors was Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease; twenty years earlier, he had used Alfred Waterhouse to design his mansion, Hutton Hall, and one assumes this connection influenced the choice of architect for the Grammar School buildings. Built in Waterhouse's characteristic red brick and terracotta style, the buildings replaced the old almshouses and school buildings that fronted Church Walk. The plaque over the central archway reads: 'Guisborough Grammar School - founded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth AD 1561, re-erected in the reign of Queen Victoria AD 1887'. The Grammar School
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