Education
The Cistercian's maintained a library at the Abbey. Scholarly works were produced such as Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum and John Godard's Concerning the threefold method of calculating alongside the ecclesiastical. There was also a school at the Abbey before 1464, in contravention of Cistercian Rule.
Sir Robert Hitcham's School was founded in 1636 as part of the will of Sir Robert Hitcham a Member of Parliament and Attorney General. The school was to educate 20 or 30 of the poorest children of the town and to give them funding for apprenticeships. The school functioned until the mid 20th Century, being rebuilt in 1858 on land opposite Paycockes.
A national school was started in 1838–39 when the old work house on Stoneham Street was given to the Vicar and Churchwardens.
The British school was built on land adjoining the Independent Chapel (current day Christ Church) in 1841 for education of the poor.
In the late 20th century St. Peter's School Church of England Primary School was opened in the land opposite St. Peter ad Vincula Church. It was rebuilt in the 1980s.
In 2008 a Montessori School was founded in the rooms above Christ Church.
Coggeshall has one comprehensive secondary school called Honywood Community Science School.
The Coggeshall Museum was founded in the 1990s.
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