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Summary

Medieval building used as a Free Grammar School, later a silk factory, later a carpet factory. Extant stone walling in above-ground north wall of current Eastgate House is probably from this building.

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

• HER backup file (new series): SOU 295  paper & digital (other digital sources available, not yet Library Linked)
• Old Southampton SMR No/Backup file: SU 4210 NW 29  also SU 4210 NW 15

Monument Type(s):

• GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Post Medieval - 1553 AD to 1695 AD)
• SILK MILL (Post Medieval to Unknown - 1690 AD?)
• CARPET FACTORY (Post Medieval - 1805 AD to 1805 AD)

Full description

Documentary Evidence: see [1].

SOU 295 Results:
[3]: During renovation work on the Platform Tavern, the western wall of the public house was thought to be the wall of a medieval building. Made of courses of limestone blocks, it is thought to be the remains of the 15th century Free School. It ran north from another wall thought to be the town wall (see SH 33). Another wall, running east-west, was also exposed at the back of the public house. This contained an original doorway and a reused timber acting as a door jamb.
[4][5][6]: Two medieval, regularly coursed, limestone ashlar walls were exposed; one was a western north-south wall, the other a northern east-west wall.

SOU 802 Results:
[2]: The 19th century Eastgate House in Winkle Street has a large area of stone walling from an earlier building incorporated into the eastern part of its north wall; this is visible above-ground on the exterior of the building. During repaving work in Winkle Street, the stone foundations, including an offset, of this stone walling were revealed. The stone walling is probably the remains of the medieval building used as a grammar school in the 16th century.

IP 21/8/02: If the western wall of the Platform Tavern is part of the Free School, as interpreted in [3], this may suggest that the interpretation of the documentary evidence in [1] is wrong and that the whole school site lay further west.

[6]: Old Grammar School, Winkle Street, later a silkhouse. (More details, including description of school room on last page.)

(GIS: polygon very roughly plotted using documentary evidence [1]. IP 19/4/02)

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESH295 - Watching Brief at the Platform Tavern in 1987 (Ref: SOU 295)
• ESH802 - Watching brief on Winkle Street Repaving in 1997 (Ref: SOU 802)

Related records

Associated Links: None recorded

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