Archbishop Chichele also founded this beautiful little chantry Chapel, with crocketed pinacles, sometime after the Bedehouse. The chapel became the Grammar School after the dissolution, and continued for over three centuries. At the west end there is a statue of Archbishop Chichele.

In 1899 Alfred George Collins Vann became Head Master of Chichele Grammar School. He came from a working class background, studied hard and frequently attended courses at Oxford University, gaining his MA degree in 1898, and was previously the School Master at South End Elementary School in Rushden and his wife, Hannah Elizabeth Simpson Vann was a certificated teacher at the same school. Their son Bernard William Vann was awarded the Victoria Cross in WWI.

Wellingborough News, 5th December 1890, transcribed by Kay Collins

GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Higham Ferrers
(Founded 1422)

BOYS Prepared for Oxford and Cambridge Locals, College of Preceptors, and other examinations by experienced and successful tutor. Vacancies for boarders. For terms, &c., apply to the Head Master.

P. M. SMITH