In the south transept a brass in memory of the Right Honble. George Denman. Mrs. Huckin presented the brass lectern to the Chapel in 1880. In 1884 a bell, bearing the following inscription, DEO D.D. TRES ARCHIDIDASCALI FILIOLÆ, was placed in the chapel turret. On the nave walls are brasses in memory of the following boys:—C. P. Aylmer, J. H. P. Lighton, J. A. Barber, C. F. Blagg, N. Baskerville Mynors, H. Goodwin Brooks, F. Levy, A. S. Darrock, J. Stratford Collins. On the outside of the Chapel, round the three sides of the apse, and along the south side, are the following inscriptions:— AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM ET E. T. P. DESIDERATISSIMÆ IN MEMORIAM A.S. MDCCCLXVII. DEO SERVATORI HANC ÆDEM SCHOLÆ REPANDUNENSIS PER ANNOS CCC INCOLUMIS PRÆSIDES ALUMNI AMICI POSUERUNT A.S. MDCCCLVIII. AUGENDAM. CURAVERUNT A.S. MDCCCLXXX. [Illustration: Plate 11. Repton Hall, from the North. (Page 81.) Porter’s Lodge. (Page 86.)] CHAPTER XII. SCHOOL HOUSES, &c. For over two hundred years Repton School was held in the Priory, the “School Master” lodged at its north end, and the “Usher” at its south. Between “the lodgings” was the school-room, known to many generations of Reptonians as the “big school.” A smaller room was built on to this, with a door of communication between them, this room used to be divided into two, the upper end was the Headmaster’s study, and the lower end the School library. During the eighteenth century a large number of boys, who came from a distance, used “to table,” that is lodge, in the village. On January 8th, of the year 1728, Mary Thacker died, leaving Repton Hall to Sir Robert Burdett, Bart., of Foremark. It is supposed that the School acquired the Hall, as a residence for the Headmaster, about this time. Repton Hall, originally an isolated brick tower, two storeys high, with hexagonal turrets in the upper storey, was built by Prior Overton during the reign of Henry VIth (1422-1461), and was called Prior Overton’s Lodge, but as the Prior, according to the Statutes, was obliged to reside in the Priory itself, moreover the Prior’s chamber is named in the Inventory (p. 58), “there can be little doubt,” as Mr. St John Hope writes (_Vol. VI., Derbyshire Archæological Journal, p. 96_), “the building was really the infirmitorium, or abode of sick and infirm monks.” Like all the other ancient buildings in Repton, additions and restorations have quite changed it. The Thackers added to it when they obtained possession in 1539, and built its southern side during the reign of William and Mary. The only unaltered part is the brick tower, except its top which used to be castellated, (see picture in Bigsby’s Hist., Plate 1.)