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I.-A GENERAL SURVEY. I have been ar.ked to write th e first of a serie s of articles on the surroundin gs of ~he Kin g's S~hoo l. ~nd as such. ~ n vit~tio n s are rarc , in my ex per ience, I do not heSitate to rtI S~l mto pnnt, al thou gh It lUlght seem unnecessarily bold ou my part to at~en:pt ~nythIl1g 0,£ the sort whe n there is slich a mine of information already eXl~tln.g. 111 the HIstory of the School and previous works on the City a nd its ant~qUltles: .\¥'hat I shal! al~empt to do, wi ll be to g ive a rough SOrt of g uide to the vanous bll1ldl~gS. and ~hClr s~tes. To begin with, it must be clearly kept in mind that the sch<;>ol bUl.ldmgs, lIlcludlllg the Grange and the Junior School, are outside the Monastic Preclllcts· proper. Previously to Dr. Mitclllnson's time the sc hoo l buildin gs ra~ along wher~ th e present asphalt path leads from one gateway lO a nother. 'rh o M.mt- Yard has Its name from the fa ct that fro m early times it was the site of a Minl. Kmg Athclstan, whose date I confess I do not know, had, in Angl o-Saxon times, allowe? Canterbury se~e n minters, a greater number than g ranted to any other placl' exceptIng London, which had eight. The Grange is on the site of the G ra nary of th~ Monas tery, and the p,rese nt Master's roo ms and school buil dings are in a hou se bUIlt o n the site of the Gral~ary by Mr. Austen, the Cathedral Architect, some fortv or fifty rears ago. The T ennis Courts behind th e Grange are in the g roun ds of th~\ Archbishop's Palace, of which the old building in the Jun ior School, now used 'l ot Mr. Latter's study, was the entrance. The Gateway by Gibbs', is ancient, being tht' entrance to the Grounds. The old wall bounding the Ten nis Courts is part of tht wall of the Monastic Preci ncts and formerly continued to th e Bishop of Dovcr'g house , \~h ose gard.e n walls now enclose part of the space· wh ich was form.erly outsid,) the Preclllcts and 111 the Grounds of the Ar ch bishop's Palace. ' A house ?f some sort stood near the site of th e ] unior King's School, and tho passage from It to Palace Street was called Moonlight vValk . . In our ?w n tim~s g rea,t chan9'es have take n place, the ruins of the Old Pahu',' W.hICh ~e,matned, belllg sktlfully lllco rporated into the New Palace, built by Arc h bls h ~p I t:~np le. <J.ver the wall of the Ju nior School playgrollnd can bc SGcn th l' rem alils of the Refectory of the Monastery, which stuod behind where now is til" Bishop of Dovees ho use. The gateway in the Green Court, next to that hOllse. 1M the old Larder G,ate. and the Kitchens and their offices stood near that gate. In wh lll we call the BaptIstery Gardens were the Dormitories, one large one standing at right