Kingston Grammar School pupils will travel back seven centuries next month when they celebrate Lovekyn Day on July 8.
There will be a medieval lunch menu with raised pies, “salats” and other typical dishes of the period, all eaten off bread trenchers in place of plates.
Other highlights will include trebuchet firing, tugs of war and - keenly anticipated by many - teachers will be “punished” by a spell in the stocks, while pupils pelt them with missiles.
In days of yore these would have been stones, bad eggs and the like. This time they will be confined to sponges.
The day is part of Lovekyn 700, a year-long festival honouring the foundation of the Lovekyn chantry chapel by Edward Lovekyn in 1309.
The chapel, believed to be the only surviving building of its kind in the UK, still stands in Kingston’s London Road.
In 1547, after its dissolution by Edward VI, it became the birthplace of Kingston Grammar School, which owns it to this day.
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