We pass to the cathedral through the beautiful Erpingham Gate built about 1420 by Sir Thomas Erpingham, and we find the school on the left.

It was originally a chapel, and the porch is at least five hundred years old.

The schoolroom is sufficiently old-world-looking for us to imagine the schoolboys of past generations sitting at the various desks.

The school was founded in 1547, but the registers have been lost, and so we know little of its famous pupils of earlier days.

Lord Nelson and Rajah Brooke are the two names of men of action that stand out most honourably in modern times among the scholars[38].