A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



DURHAM PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 



County Borough of Gateshead. — By deed of 9 January, 1701, Theophilus Pickering, D.D., 

 gave £^'^0 for a school to be held in the buildings called the Anchorage, in case the Tolbooth, 

 which was then a school, could not be used for the purpose. This school was closed about 1 87 1. 

 Its endowment of £^'^7 5^- ^'^' Consols is applied, in accordance with a scheme made under the 

 Endowed Schools Acts, 28 November, 1887, in exhibitions for scholars in any Gateshead Church of 

 England public elementary school. Six exhibitions are given each year in St. Mary's and St. Cuth- 

 bert's (Lady Vernon) National Schools. The latter school was built by Cuthbert Ellison in memory 

 of his daughter, Lady Vernon, and enlarged 1868 and 1885, and a boys' school was added in 1 891 

 by Lord Northbourne in memory of his wife, daughter of Cuthbert Ellison. To the Higher Grade 

 Board School, of which the Intermediate and Junior Departments are in Whitehall Road, and the 

 Senior, with science laboratories, technical workshops, cookery school, etc., in Durham Road, 

 Mrs. Sarah Lambert, sister of John Heslop, by will of 5 October, 1885, bequeathed £2$ a year for 

 John Heslop Scholarships. This bequest was augmented in 1890 by a gift from Lord Northbourne 

 of ;C500, and both sums being invested in land leased for £4.0 a year maintain 3 or 4 John Heslop 

 Scholarships, 2 Northbourne Scholarships, and i scholarship in memory of Canon Moore Ede. A 

 School Board was formed under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, on 28 November, 1870, 

 the powers of which are under the Education Act, 1902, now vested in the Town Council. The 

 Public Elementary Schools number 28 ; of these, 3 are National, seating 1959 (earliest built 

 in 1842); I Wesleyan, seating 748 (built in 1862); 3 Roman Catholic, seating 1546 (earliest 

 built in 1862) ; and 21 Council schools, seating 17,552 (earliest built in 1877). 



County Borough of South Shields. — A School Board was formed 27 January, 1871. The 

 schools now in existence number 19 ; of these 4 are National, seating 2,525 ; 3 Church, seating 

 1,277 ; 2 Roman Catholic, seating 1,115 > ^nd 10 Council, seating 13,878. 



County Borough of Sunderland. — Part of Robert Foster's Charity, founded 1736, and 

 Edward Walton's Charity, founded 1768, is applied by the Durham Quarterly Meeting of the 

 Society of Friends in payment of fees at Bede Higher Grade School. The Gray School (N.), first 

 established in 1822, has an endowment of ;^i,O0O given by Elizabeth Woodcock, 3 September, 1823; 

 and by deed of 13 September, 1831, the freemen and stallingers of Sunderland covenanted to pay 

 £21 105. a year to the same school for right of nominating 42 free scholars ; this payment is now 

 made by the Sunderland Orphan Asylum. The old school was sold in 1856, and the present one 

 then built. The Bishop Wearmouth School, established 1848, receives ;^I5 yearly from the 

 trustees of the Maritime Institution in respect of Mrs. Woodcock's bequest, by will proved 9 April, 

 1842, of ;^2,ooo Consols to Church of England Schools at Sunderland and Bishop Wearmouth. 

 The total number of schools now existing is 32 : of these 6 are National, seating 3,890 (earliest 

 established 1822) ; I Wesleyan, seating 275 (established 1869) ; 2 Church of England, seating 662 

 (both built 1869-70) ; 5 Roman Catholic, seating 2,402 (earliest built in 1835) ; and 18 Council 

 schools, seating 22,091 (earliest built in 1866). 



County Borough of West Hartlepool. — A School Board was formed 22 March, 1875. 

 The schools number 16. Of these, 2 arc National, seating 890 ; I Roman Catholic, seating 1,016; 

 I Wesleyan, seating 757 ; and 12 Council, seating 11,553. They have all been built since 1870, 

 except Seaton Carcw School (N.), established 1844, and Church Square School (C), which was 

 built in 1857 by subscription, and, after 1891, transferred to the West Hartlepool School Board. 



ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTT OF DURHAM 



Darlington Municipal Borough. — The old Blue Coat School, founded 19 April, 1713, has 

 an endowment of j^i, 392 91. Consols, which is now applied to St. Cuthbert's, St. John's, St. Paul's, 

 and Holy Trinity National Schools. A School Board was formed 13 January, 1871. The schools 

 now in existence number 16 ; of these 4 are the National Schools mentioned above, seating 2,617 

 (earliest built, St. Cuthbert's, 1824); i Wesleyan, seating 731, established 1857; 1 British, 

 seating 227 ; 2 Roman Catholic, seating 1,123 (c-^flicst established, 1867); and 8 Council schools, 

 seating 5,«02 (e.irliest built in I 867). 



Dirmam Municipal Boroucjm. — The 15hic Coat School was founded in or before 1718, and 

 was held in rooms in the Bull's Head Inn in the Market Place. Tlie school was endowed by 

 Jane Finney's bequest, by codicil of 13 January, 1728, of a house in Gillygate, sold in 1799, and 

 now represented by ^^212 Oj. 3//. Consols ; and by Ann Carr's bequest of ,{^500, by will proved 

 6 December, 1748, now invested in land known as Pelaw lycazcs, let for ;{[io a year. The present 

 school site was given by Bishop Barrington, and the buildings were erected by subscription in 



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