SCHOOLS 



Green's Norton. — The Slapton Charity Estate of about 24 acres was purchased under 

 the will, dated 1 7 19, of Dr. Aaron Wood, rector, and the lands have been applied for 

 education in Green's Norton and Whittlebury, Green's Norton receiving about ^^22 yearly. 

 The schools in both places were kept in houses belonging to the duke of Grafton. In 1 8 19 

 they became national schools. The present building, seating 171, was built in 1874. The 

 infants' school has an endowment of £$2^ 7'- 2d. consols, bequeathed by John Elliott in 1865. 



GuiLSBOROUGH. — The national school seats 157. This school was founded in 1609, 

 and was formerly known as the Writing School. A decree of the Commissioners of Chari- 

 table Uses, 19 February, 1625, recites a gift of ;^I00 by Wm. Gilbert in 1 609 for a free 

 school, and gifts by other persons, the whole amounting to ^^205, of which £2$ had been 

 spent on a schoolhouse, and jTiSo in purchase of 29 acres of land. The original building was 

 exchanged in 1764 for another house, and the present school was built in 1867 by the 

 Rev. T. S. Hichens, vicar. 



Hanging Houghton. — Sir Edmund Isham, by will of 16 November, 1762, bequeathed 

 ;{^i,500 consols upon trust for education (except as to ^^5 per annum to be given to the poor). 

 This is applied to the Lamport and Hanging Houghton Free School, seating 102, and built 

 1852. A Chancery Order of 31 July, 1822, directed that there should also be payable ;^2I 

 yearly for education, and a sum not exceeding ;^I0 yearly for repairs of the schoolhouse, out 

 of the surplus rents of the charity estate at Brixworth arising from the charities of Sir 

 Justman Isham (will 30 December, 1670) and Lady Denton, for apprenticing. 



Harpole. — Under an Enclosure Act, 1778, there being then no school in the parish, an 

 allotment of 26 a. 3 r. 5 p. was made in respect of the town land for a schoolmaster. This is 

 applied to Harpole Free School, national, seating 180, and built originally in 1835, on the 

 site of certain parish cottages. In 1864 a new school was built on glebe land, and in 1900-1 

 an infant school was added. 



Harringworth. — The school here, seating 95, and built in 1825, receives a sum of ^{^40 

 yearly under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 1884 from charity estates, which 

 include the educational charities of Elizabeth Gardiner (given before 1705) and of the 

 Rev. M. Palmer (given before 1755). 



Hellidon. — John Ball, by will of 6 July, 161 8, bequeathed a rent charge of j^20 for 

 maintenance of a master, and a further sum of £100 for a schoolhouse. The present 

 parochial school, seating 125, was built in 1854, and enlarged 1885 and 1894. 



Irthlingborough. — Wm. Trigg, by will 25 February, 1728, gave a rent-charge of 

 £1^ to the master of the charity school he had built in Irthlingborough for the instruction of 

 children who should have received infant baptism according to the doctrine of the Church of 

 England. The instruction was to include reading, knitting, and spinning, and every scholar 

 who had spun for 3 years was to receive a Bible, and on the 5 November every scholar was 

 to have a half loaf, and the master 2 loaves. In 1830 the school was a national school, and 

 the provisions of the founder no longer observed. It was rebuilt in 1867, and seats 323 ; 

 a school board was formed 3 May, 1872. 



King's Cliffe. — Mrs. Elizabeth Hutcheson, in 1744, set up a school in King's Clifie 

 for 18 boys. In 1747 she purchased a schoolhouse, and by deeds of 14 and 15 May, 1753, 

 and deed of 1 7 54, conveyed estates for its support. The Rev. Wm. Law, author of 

 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, in 1727 set up a school for 14 girls; in 1751 

 he built a new schoolhouse for them, and by deeds 19 and 20 October, 1753, conveyed 

 estates for their education and maintenance. The endowment produces about ;^700 a year, 

 part of which is applicable for almspeople, and is regulated under the Endowed Schools Act 

 by a scheme of 19 August, 1889, which directs that the schools shall be public elementary 

 schools. The endowed school also benefits under Miss Louisa Perry's bequest for the 

 national and Sunday schools here by will proved 1869. It seats 280, and was rebuilt 1873. 

 A school board was formed 21 December, 1874. 



Little Harrowden. — Wm. Aylworth by deed of 17 January, 1661, gave a rent- 

 charge of ;^20 for a free grammar school in Little Harrowden for children of that parish 

 and of Orlingbury, and by subsequent deeds lands were conveyed to the same use. The 

 master was to be a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, and to instruct the children in the 

 Church catechism. Though the school was by foundation, and in fact a grammar school, 

 as early as 1830 it was an elementary school only. The present building, seating 220, 

 was erected in 1851, and enlarged in 1876 and 1890. 



Long Buckby. — The Rev. Langton Freeman in 1783 gave an endowment of ;^20 yearly 

 for education here ; this foundation is regulated by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners 



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