Cathedral Refectory Graffiti

When Henry VIII carried out the dissolution of St Werburgh's Abbey, which has now become the Cathedral, the statutes provided that there should be  a school for "24 poor and friendless boys between the ages of 9 and 15". The School was housed in the Refectory for most of the next 400 years until 1869. The school was variously called "The Free School" and "The Grammar School". If you go and look in the Refectory, you can still see the graffiti left by some of those boys.

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