A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



the University and Dean and Chapter of Durham. To the Belmont school buildings the Trustees 

 of the GiUygate Church Estate contributed j{^400, and the school receives about £1"] yearly under 

 Chancery Scheme of 28 February, 1866, regulating the Church Estate. 



Benfieldside. — School Board formed 11 August, 1876. There are 4 schools ; 3 Council 

 Schools, seating 1,521 ; and i, Black hill, St. Mary's (R.C.), seating 448, and founded 1880. 



BiLLiNGHAM. — There are 3 schools now in existence. Of these, 2 are Church of England, 

 seating 575, and i is Roman Catholic (founded 1898), seating 306. Billingham School (Ch. 

 of England), founded 1852, is partly supported by the Dean and Chapter of Durham; in 1898 

 an addition was made to this school, partly on the school site and partly on the site of the old 

 parish pinfold. A house for the master was conveyed by deed of 22 June, 1899. 



BiRTLEY. — There are 4 schools, of which 3 are Church of England, seating 897 (i being 

 private property, i.e. the Birtiey Iron Works Infants', let under yearly agreement), and I Roman 

 Catholic, seating 297. 



Bishop Auckland (see also St. Helen's Auckland and Coundon Grange). — By instruc- 

 tions of Edward Walton on 19 September, 1768, Walton's School (B) was founded out of ;f500 

 appropriated for the education of 12 poor children of Bishop Auckland. The school buildings 

 were sold in 1859, and the old Bishop Auckland Grammar School buildings bought I October, 

 1861. The endowment produces about ;^29 a year. The school, which seats 198, is managed 

 by the Society of Friends. Barrington's School (C. of E.), now seating 370, was built by Bishop 

 Barrington about 1808, and under deed of the Bishop dated 22 February, 1823, shares an 

 endowment consisting now of ;^i 1,734 8j. Midland Railway ; £'J,\20 Great Northern Railway ; 

 ^^9,5 1 2 North Eastern Railway Stock, with St. Anne's Girls and Infants' School and other schools. 

 The school was conveyed to trustees by deeds of 24 and 25 February, 1823. It also receives 

 ;f20 yearly for teaching poor boys, and ;^30 yearly for clothing them from the General Charity 

 of Lord Crewe, under Charity Commissioners' scheme of 31 March, 1896. St. Anne's Girls 

 and Infants' School (National), now seating 707, was founded 20 June, 1833, by the Barrington 

 Trustees. In 1855 the old school was sold, and the present one built. The total number of 

 schools is 5 ; of the remaining 2, I is Wesleyan, seating 340, and built 1858 ; and i Roman 

 Catholic, seating 485, and built 1874. 



Bishop Middleham. — A Church of England School, seating 197, built by subscription 

 in 1770 upon the waste, minus the endowment given by will of Elizabeth Ambler, 30 June, 

 1828, now ^272 lOJ. 5^. Consols, for the education of children between the ages of 5 and 14, 

 to be selected by the Vicar. 



Bishopton. — I school. National, seating 112, built 18 13, partially re-built 1896; endowed 

 under the will of the Rev. Thomas Burton Holgate, proved I September, 1 87 1, with ;^446 Great 

 Western Railway 5 per cent. (See also note to Sherburn School.) 



Blackwell. — I school, British, seating 105. 



Blaydon. — A School Board was formed 21 April, 1875. There are 10 schools in existence : 

 I National, seating 425 ; Stella St. Cuthbert's, founded 1854 (there had been a school here in 

 1832, but it was sold after 1854; and an endowment of ;^I02 Consols, bequeathed by John 

 Mulcaster, by codicil of 14 October, 1832, is applied in aid of the school funds by the Rector of 

 St. Cuthbert's); I Church of England, seating 310 (founded 1902); 2 Roman Catholic, seating 

 705 (first built 1849) ; 2 British, seating 350, of which I, Victoria Garcsfield, is owned by the 

 Pricstman Collieries Company, and 5 Council Schools, seating 3,036. 



Bolam. — I Church of England School, seating 88, built 1894 by Dr. Joseph Edleston, then 

 vicar of Gainford. 



Boldon. — A School Board was formed 9 February, 1876. There are 2 schools, of which 

 I is National, seating 149, and was built in 1841 ; this school has an endowment of ;^2io 

 Consols under the will of Rev. Henry Blackctt, rector, who died about 1 808. The other, a 

 Council School, seating 208, was built in 1885. 



Boldon Colliery. — i Council School, seating 732, built 1878. 



BouRNMOOR. — There is i school. Church of England, seating 507, built 1874, and let 

 by the Earl of Durham under yearly agreement. An Infants' Department at New Lambton was 

 built in 1871. 



Braijbury. — A Church of England School, the Mordon and Bradbury School, seating 66, 

 and built 1 87 1-2. Payments in aid of this school are made from the Sedgcfield School Endow- 

 ments. 



Brafferton. — A National School, seating 71, built in 1823. 



Brancepeth. — A Church of England School, stating 164. Built by Lady Boync in 1857, is 

 let by Viscount I{oync under yearly agreement. Iti 1 89 1 it received £G in respect of Anne 

 Doliinson's becpiest of 2 I January, 1662, to the ancient school of Brancepeth, which, by County 

 Court scheme of 23 March, 1857, ^-^ applied for Dobinson's free scholars in 5 schools. £'i lot. 



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