Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum
History Revisited
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The Museum is now open for the summer season, with new exhibitions as well as many of the old favourites.
'If you don't like the weather - wait a minute'. Visit our new display 'Come Rain or Shine', with its weather timeline and garments for all seasons, and find out more about that well-worn conversational subject, the English weather.
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.
Beside this seat hangs a portrait of Thomas Crispin, who although born in Kingsbridge, lived and worked in Exeter as a fuller. A Quaker, he was closely connected with the Society of Friends in Kingsbridge and in 1670 he built and endowed the Grammar School.
