This is one of a series of cards of the school's interior that Reverend Chippett, the headmaster, commissioned - presumably for the boys to send home to their parents and as a way of advertising the preparatory school that he ran at Riber castle.

"There were really only two classes. The younger boys were in a form room on the ground floor under the charge of a mistress"^[1]. Many school children have sat at similar wooden desks over the years, tightly packed together, with their inkwells, sloping lids and hard wooden seats.

References (coloured links are to transcripts elsewhere on this web site):

^[1] Beaumont, Richard Melville (1998) "In his own words", private publication © Estate of Richard Melville Beaumont. A fuller extract from Beaumont's book can be found on the web page Mr. Chippett's School at Riber Castle