Big School
Older former students of Boston Grammar School will know this building as the Big School, though it has for many years been the school library.
Following the founding of the school in 1555 premises in Wormgate were used until the corporation provided new premises. On 19 May 1567 it was decided that "ther shall be a new Scholehouse erected in the Hallgarth" and once the decision was made no time was wasted. The building was completed within a year.
In the following April it was reported that just over £195 "one hundryth fower schore fyftene pounds and eleven pence of lawful money of England" had been expended "in and abowte the buyldynge of the new Schoole House, aswell in woodd tymber stone as all so ye workmanshippe..." The final payment, of four pounds for "2000 thatche tile" was "delivered to John Dixon for his Scholehouse" the next October. They built better than they knew. The premises remained virtually unaltered, and certainly not extended, until 1850.