Building record 0168900000 - MARKET HALL, HIGH STREET

Summary

Seventeenth century market hall in the High Street used as a school in the nineteenth century

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Listed Building (II*) 1221420: MARKET HALL (DBC6599)

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Type and Period (2)

MARKET HALL (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
SCHOOL (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
MARKET HALL IN HIGH STREET AMERSHAM BUILT 1682 BY SIR WM DRAKE (RECORDED ON TABLET AT W END). BRICK, ON ARCHED PILLARS, (SEE FULL DESCRIPTION)(B2,B5).
LOWER PART USED FOR MARKET, UPPER PART OWNED BY DRAKES, USED AS PARISH SCHOOL C19 (B2).
LATER USED FOR MEETINGS BUT NOT USED AS TOWN HALL (B6).
GRADE II+ (B8).
Apparently used by the boys of Dr Challoner's Grammar School until 1905 (B9).
Also used by the boys of Cheyne's Writing School, and in 1867 76 boys were being taught there (B10).

Sources (10)

<1>SBC1350 Bibliographic reference: BCM CAS RECORD CARD 1689.
<2>SBC6923 Article in serial: W H Hastings Kelke. 1862. 'AMERSHAM', IN RECS OF BUCKS 2 PP333-353. Vol 2, No. 8. p339.
<3>SBC14113 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN J J 1862 HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P800.
<4>SBC15661 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 PP141,147.
<5>SBC12875 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1, P4.
<6>SBC11211 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 99 NE 7 (FILED, CAS ENVELOPE FILE 1689).
<7>SBC14011 Scheduling record: SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS DEC 1930 (BUCKS NO. 12)/DE-SCHEDULED JAN 1998 .
<8>SBC3862 Bibliographic reference: DOE 1984 LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST:BUCKS DISTRICT OF CHILTERN .
<9>SBC24867 Bibliographic reference: L E Pike & C Birch. 1976. The Book of Amersham. pp75.
<10>SBC19607 Bibliographic reference: Julian Hunt. 2001. A History of Amersham. pp85.

Location

Grid reference	SU 95750 97320 (point)
Civil Parish	AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire