Monument record 570/2 - Winwick Grammar School

Winwick Free Grammar School, founded by Gowther Walter Legh in the time of Henry VIII, who gave ten pounds a year. In 1619, Sir Peter Legh added the same sum, having previously provided a building. A hundred years later another Peter Legh of Lyme substituted an annual payment of 24 pounds for the 2 earlier benefactions. In 17th century the school sent boys to the universities. By 1865 it was a small boarding school, but came to an end in 1890 when the endowment was combined with the Dean School in Newton, founded 1699 (1). Founded 1547, probably as a consequence of the Reformation, as the Legh of Lyme Hall Chantry Chapel at Winwick church was abolished & its deposed priest was probably the first school master, with a Legh endowment. The master was always a priest (2).

<1> Farrer W & Brownbill J, 1906-14, The Victoria County History of the County of Lancaster, 2/603 1908 (Book). SCH3636.

<2> Lymm & District Local History Society, Various, Lymm & District Local History Society - Newsletter, Andrews P J 1973 69/1-3 (Newsletter). SCH2040.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ69SW4/1955 (Index). SCH2487.

<4> Cartlidge, Rev. J.E. Gordon, 1971, Warrington & the Mid-Mersey Valley, /25 (Book). SCH3668.