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Survey of London
… the late Victorian buildings of the former Hugh Myddelton School, one of the largest board schools to be built in … was leased in 1685 to Sir Thomas Rowe, JP, as a county school for poor orphans. This pioneering venture provided … failed to survive Rowe's death in 1696. By 1700 the former school premises had been let to Quakers as an almshouse …
Survey of London
… winders lead up to the galleries. The sheet-metal 'modesty boards' attached to the plain iron railings are presumably … significant as an early example of the 'Raphaelesque' school in Victorian stained glass. 100 East end. The two … Butler & Bayne, 1866, and described as 'of the German School'. 102 Centre: Memorial to Helen Augusta Paget, made by …
Survey of London
… 17 On the north side, the erection in 1738 of the Welsh School was accompanied by new building on the adjacent plots, … two of them wooden and quite lowly in character; the school itself was the first consciously 'architectural' … as a temporary measure Rogers enclosed the room with deal boards, separating it from the hall. Though this generally …
Survey of London
… Road and Goswell Road was the departure of Charterhouse School to Godalming and the sale of the old premises at the … to the Merchant Taylors' Company as a new home for its own school. Part of the attraction was the spaciousness of the … connecting Wilderness Row with the Merchant Taylors' School. Building was well advanced by the time that the MBW's …
Old and New London
… divided into three shops, was formerly the Welsh Charity School, founded in 1718. The house was built in 1737, and the … figure of a Welsh boy in a niche in the front of the school. Pennant, a warm-hearted Welshman, intended to have … the profits of his great work on "British Zoology" to this school, but its expenses were so great that he was unable to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the patronage of the Vicar of Cockerham; net income, 93. A school has been erected on ground given by the duke. … bishop for divine service, and also used as an infants' school; it was erected by subscription, on land given by W. … by will 666. 13. 4. in the three per cent. consols., for a school; and in 1815, Earl Harcourt conveyed two cottages, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Sir Michael Fisher, lord of the manor, who died in 1549. A school was founded and endowed in 1827, by the Rev. D. S. … Dickson left a small bequest for teaching children, and a school has lately been built, by aid of a grant of 50 from … The inhabitants are mostly employed in nine collieries. A school has been built by the proprietor's trustees. Clifton, …