EDUCATION.
In 1833 three private schools
taught 24 boys and 31 girls, and a small adult
school met occasionally. A Sunday school,
started in 1820 at the rector's expense, had 37
boys and 31 girls in 1833 and 20 boys and 24
girls in 1841. (fn. 42) The two schools recorded in
1863 may have continued as private elementary
schools in 1871. (fn. 43)
A National school for 100 children was built
in 1872 on land north-east of the church leased
from the Allison and Butler charity. The rector
built a teacher's house in 1890, and helped to
add a classroom and cloakrooms to the school in
1892. The building was further improved in
1913 and 1931. (fn. 44) The school, with average
attendances of c. 55-65 in the later 19th century,
received government grants from 1880. (fn. 45) As the
Wakes Colne Church of England Primary
School, it was granted aided status in 1952; it
closed in 1963. (fn. 46)
Footnotes
| 42 |
Educ. Enq. Abstract, 272; E.R.O., D/ACM 12. |
| 43 |
White's Dir. Essex (1863), 162-3; Returns Elem. Educ.
1871, H.C. 201, pp. 118-19 (1871), lv. |
| 44 |
E.R.O., D/P 88/28/15; Nat. Soc. file. |
| 45 |
Rep. Educ. Cttee. of Council, 1879-80 [C. 2562-1],
p. 595, H.C. (1880), xxii, and following years; Schs. in receipt
of Parl. Grants 1895-6 [C. 8179], p. 79, H.C. (1896), lxv,
and following years. |
| 46 |
E.R.O., D/P 88/28/15; E.C.C. List of Schools (1963). |