Dunchurch girls' school c.1845.
Taken from Sandford's "Parochialia", p.104. Image supplied by Edward Reid-Smith.
Plan of Dunchurch girls' school c.1845.
Taken from Sandford's "Parochialia", p.104. Image supplied by Edward Reid-Smith.
This school was built in 1837, adjoining the churchyard and parsonage, on a site presented by Lord John Scott. Previous to its erection the girls were instructed on the week-days in the upper part of the boys’ free-school, and on Sunday with the boys in the church.
The term “National School” means that it operated under the scheme of the independent National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church (before the Government introduced its own schemes from the 1870 Education Act onwards). The Government made small grants for schools, and the National Society made grants for school buildings. There was an alternative Society for non-conformists.
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Very interesting: is it still there? And if not, does anyone know when it disappeared? By the way I met someone who was an apprentice in Dunchurch and was part of the first group who decorated the statue of Lord John Scott (which is still there) with a pair of antlers. The local policeman discovered who the lads were and gave them a dressing down. However the tradition of dressing up the statue continues each December.
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