| Rev. George Style, M.A. | [Frontispiece] |
| Facing Page | |
| The Charter | [12] |
| First School, 1512 | [18] |
| Rev. Josias Shute, B.D. | [60] |
| Richard Frankland, M.A. | [68] |
| Archdeacon Paley | [82] |
| Second School, 1790 | [90] |
| Rev. Rowland Ingram, M.A. | [110] |
| Usher's House | [120] |
| Craven Bank | [120] |
| Rev. G. A. Butterton, D.D. | [126] |
| The Old School | [132] |
| Porch of the Old School | [134] |
| Rev. John Howson, M.A. | [146] |
| Sir James Kay Shuttleworth | [146] |
| Rev. John Richard Blakiston, M.A. | [150] |
| Hector Christie, Esq. | [156] |
| Cricket Ground | [164] |
| The Hostel, 1869 | [170] |
| A Class-room | [174] |
| A Hostel Study | [174] |
| Hostel | [176] |
| The Library | [178] |
| Class-rooms and Laboratory | [180] |
| Chemistry Laboratory | [182] |
| The Museum | [182] |
| Big School | [184] |
| The Fives Courts | [186] |
| Lord Frederick Cavendish | [188] |
| The School Buildings | [190] |
| Bankwell | [194] |
| Walter Morrison, M.A., Esq. | [198] |
| The Chapel Exterior | [200] |
| The Chapel Dome | [204] |
| James Carr | [204] |
| The Chapel, East, Interior | [208] |
| The Chapel, West, Interior | [210] |
| The Gate House | [212] |
| W. W. Vaughan, M.A., Esq. | [216] |
| Joiner's Shop | [218] |
| Athletic Shop | [218] |
| G. B. Mannock, Esq. | [220] |
| Officers Training Corps | [224] |
| R. N. Douglas, M.A., Esq. | [228] |
Chapter I.
The Foundation.
GIGGLESWICK School for over four hundred years has lived a life apart, unconscious of the world outside: but its life has not therefore been a placid one. Real dangers have continually assailed it, real crises have been faced. Most schools have been founded with a preliminary grant of an endowment, with which to afford a proper maintenance to Master and Scholars. But Giggleswick was not one of these. Its actual origin is obscure but this at least is sure, it existed before it was endowed. It was the private enterprise of one man, James Carr, who in 1518 "nuper decessit."
Nineteen years before, the same James Carr was a capellanus in charge of the Rood Chantry, which he himself had founded. The date of its foundation has not reached us, but the fact of its existence, and consequently the probable existence of the Grammar School, is certain in 1499.
In that year two-and-a-half acres of arable land in Settle and a meadow called Howbeck ynge were let to one William Hulle by the indenture of the cantarist. The cantarist or chantry priest was James Carr. Six years later, Hugh Wren, William Preston and James Carr, capellani, were made joint owners of "unum messuagium et unam bovatam terræ et prati."
These two possessions conclusively prove the existence of the Rood Chantry and the presence of James Carr during the last year of the fifteenth century, and from that year Giggleswick School may date its birth. The name Carr is variously spelt. Skarr, Car, Carre, Karr, Ker, all appear, but no importance is to be attached thereto. Spelling as part of the equipment of an educated man is one of the less notable inventions of the nineteenth century. As a family the Carrs come from Stackhouse, a village quite close to Giggleswick, but their recorded history begins with this generation. The father of James is nameless, but his eldest brother Stephen was living at Stackhouse in the year 1483, when he leased a plot of land from the Prior and Convent of Finchale. It was therefore not unnatural that James should found a chantry in the neighbourhood of his family home.