"THE SHERBORNE REGISTER."
Ero THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of January 27th, I found a kindly notice of the "The Sherborne Register ; " there was one sentence of that notice, however, which is likely to mislead the outside world about perhaps the most interesting group of our buildings. The sentence I refer to, runs thus : "in 1855 a new schoolroom, chapel, and schoolhouse studies" were set up. But the troth is, that these buildings (which form one group) are old monastic buildings, varying in date from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. This 1855 schoolroom is now the library, and it, as well as the chapel, still keeps its fine fifteenth-century timber-roof.—I am, Sir, &c.,
THE WRITER OF THE HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO "THE SHERBORNE REGISTER."
Abbey House, Sherborne, January 29th.
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