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    Lillesden School for Girls

    The school occupies what used to be the Lillesden Estate Mansion, built at the estate (south of Hawkhurst) in 1855 by the banker Edward Loyd, who moved there after marrying and closed in 1999.
    Now the mystery – architecture wise and from the décor and some of the ornate mouldings there appears to be a Scottish connection to this building. At first I romanticised that Edward Lloyd built this house for maybe a Scottish wife. However he married on the 12th March 1846 at Ashton-on-Mersey, Caroline Louisa Foster. In 1853 he bought the Lillesden estate at Hawkhurst, Kent and built a the mansion, finished in 1855. He himself was of Welsh descent. His wife was from a distinguished family living in Jamaica and was in fact born there, I traced her family back five generations and no Scottish roots whatsover as I did his family. The Lloyds sold the estate just after the first world war when it became a school – the earliest reference I can find is a class of 1920, the school merged with Bedgebury School in 1976 and became the Lower Bedgebury School.

    Today it has planning permission for coversion to apartments.

    One other point to note was the location was used in The Curse of Fenric – if you’re a Dr Who fan.

    I just adored this place…..and very nearly had a very very close encounter with a swim whilst I was there.
    Visited with Lulatahula.






    A Scottish connection?

    Above the door - Edward Lloyd mottif.


    The arches all had celtic knotwork decor

    One of the large mirrors







    Inside the clock tower looking down to where I took pic one



    The school dining hall




    School stage scenery


    Where I so nearly went for a swim – outdoor pool


    classroom corridor

    this looked like a chemistry classroom


    no more ladies of the manor hang their coats here




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    Default Re: Lillesden School for girls - Kent - July 2009

    bad pic of clock mechanism Mr KE

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    Default Re: Lillesden School for girls - Kent - July 2009

    Liking the stone carvings - you're right that there must be a Scots connection by marriage, it's usually the case when a rose and a thistle are carved into the column capitals like that. How did you almost manage to go into the pool?

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