Image: Polesworth School - geograph.org.uk - 1063789

Description: Polesworth School The inscription above the main door translates as "school for poor boys and girls". The school-house, founded by Sir Francis Nethersole in 1655,at the north-west corner of the High Street is of half-H plan with walls of red and black bricks and stone dressings, and balustraded parapets.['Parishes: Polesworth', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 186-198. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp186-198 [accessed 31 December 2019]. The family originated at the manor of Nethersole in Womenswold/Wimlingswold/Wingham Would, etc. in Kent. )The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent ..., Volume 9 By Edward Hasted[1]) Nethersole married Lucy Goodere, a daughter of Sir Henry Goodere of Warwickshire. Lucy died on 9 July 1652, aged 58, and was buried in Polesworth Church. Nethersole died in 1659 at Polesworth, without issue. Arms of Nethersole: Per pale gules and azure, three griffins segreant or, impaling Goodere: Gules, a fess between two chevrons vair. John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, 1724, "Edward Goodere of Burhope in Com Hereford, Esq: Gules, a fess between two chevrons vair". See also Visitations of the County of Nottingham 1559 - 1614 By George Marshall, "Goodere of Hadley", Middlesex[2]. Arms of Goodere baronets of Burhope,(in the parish of Wellington) Herefordshire: Gules, a fess between two chevrons vair (A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke[3])
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