Penrith Free Grammar School

Penrith Free Grammar School, founded 1565, William Bleamire's prize medal, silver, by Vaughton & Sons after a 19th century original, bust of Elizabeth I three-quarters left, rev., legend in eleven lines, named on edge, "E. A. Lunson July 1931", 47mm (MI 111/39; Finlay, M., Fig 12; Grimshaw 22; D & W 268/489), Birmingham hallmark, 1913. Matt surface, extremely fine.

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is now Cumbria's only coeducational selective grammar school. It moved from its original premises in St Andrew's churchyard to its present site in 1917.

Provenance: Bt. S. Monks, December 2008