Read the text and choose the best variant (A-D) to complete the choice (1-4). There is one varlant you do not need to use. KIMBOLTON SCHOOL
Kimbolton School has had a strong role within the village of Kimbolton since it was founded in the 16th century. The school originally occupied buildings within the Churchyard, but moved to new premises in Tilbrook Road in the late 1800s.
Kimbolton Castle is reported by school legend to be haunted by Catherine of Aragon, who died there in 1536 after several years of imprisonment. It is rumoured that her ghost walks on the original floor levels which have been altered in modern times, such that her ghost appears as legs and lower body projecting from the ceiling on one floor with head (1) . Another former inhabitant of the Castle, Sir John Popham, reputedly threw his baby child out of a castle window into the courtyard. It is said that the stone upon which the baby landed (2) . A third ghostly legend of similarly dubious provenance describes a female spectre periodically walking in a field north-east of the castle, on the gentle slope below Warren House.
Charles Edward Montagu, the 4th Earl who was created Duke of Manchester in 1719, had many works of reconstruction (3) . Sir John Vanbrugh and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor redesigned the facades of the castle in a classical style. The Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini redecorated some of the reconstructed rooms in 1708, including the main staircase and the chapel. Only one of these buildings, the gatehouse, was constructed in around 1764. Mews buildings (4) , and an avenue of Giant Sequoias was planted in the 19th century.
The School's Latin motto is Spes Durat Avorum (May The Hope Of Our Forefathers Endure).
A) although there are references to a school at Kimbolton as early as 1531;
B) and upper body gliding along the floor above;
C) carried out between 1690 and 1720; D) glows red annually on the anniversary of this event;
E) were added to provide stables.
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