Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum
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The Museum is now open for the 2011 season, with new exhibitions as well as many of the old favourites. The Resource Room is available for family or local history research, with extended hours this year.
Virtual Tour - The Cookworthy Room
The Cookworthy Room
... is the old schoolroom, with its wood panelling inscribed with the initials of generations of schoolboys. Beneath the coat of arms of Charles II, the Headmaster sat on his canopied seat with a commanding view of his pupils.
This room houses a permanent exhibition illustrating the development of Kingsbridge and the surrounding villages throughout the centuries, also a display relating to the Old Grammar School.
Beside this seat hangs a portrait of Thomas Crispin, who although born in Kingsbridge, lived and worked in Exeter as a fuller. In 1670 he built and endowed the Grammar School in his home town.
