Castle Community College OCR Nationals and further BTECs. Castle Community College Castle Community College is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Deal in the English county of Kent. The school is named after Deal Castle, a 16th-century coastal artillery fort. The school was converted to academy status on 1 October 2010. It was previously a community school administered by Kent County Council, however Castle Community College continues to coordinate with Kent County Council for admissions. Castle Community College offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from
Chilham Castle was the venue for a splendid reception hosted by Bartholomew de Badlesmere for Edward II and his entourage when they were travelling to Dover en route for France. The Jacobean building, within sight of the "Old Castle" (the keep), was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Digges on a hexagonal plan, with five angled ranges and the sixth left open. It has battlemented parapets, clustered facetted columnar brick chimneys and corner towers with squared ogee cappings. The Victorian tradition that this bold but vernacular house was designed by Inigo Jones is not credited by architectural historians. Indeed, Nicholas Stone, a