SCHOOLS 



Monk Hesleden. — The Castle Eden Colliery school, built in 1844, enlarged 1887, 

 scats 392. 



MooRSLEY. — A scliool here is hired from the North Hctton Colliery Co. on a yearly 

 agreement. 



MuGGLESwiCK. — There are 2 schools : a council school, seating 85, built in 1843, and a 

 School Board was formed 27 March, 1878 ; and a Church of England School, seating 60, built 

 in 1852. 



Neasham. — A Church of England school, seating 107, and built in 1867. 



Nevvbiggin. — The township school, endowed with ;^403 8j. 31/. Consols under gift of 

 Wm. Tarn by deed of 18 July, 1799, regulated by Charity Commissioners' scheme of 18 May, 

 1900 ; was built in 1803, rebuilt 1858, and scats 140. 



Newbotile. — School Board formed 4 December, 1877. There are 2 council schools, seating 

 934, built 1874 and 1880. 



Newfield. — A National school seating 282, built 1842 and enlarged 1879 and 1889. 



Newton Cap. — There are 2 schools : a Church of England school seating 209, and the 

 North Bitchburn Coal Co. school, seating 395, let on a yearly agreement. 



North Bedburn. — There are 3 schools — 2 Council seating 530, and i Wesleyan. 



Norton. — The income of ;^I53 15^. lod. Consols, bequeathed under will of Ann Hogg 

 2 February, 1796, for the education of 5 poor girls, is applied, under Charity Commissioners' 

 scheme of 9 June, 1891, to the one school now in existence here, a Council school, seating 920, and 

 built in 1872. The former national school (on the green), built in 1833, is now used for Sunday 

 school and parochial purposes, and a like use is made of the former church day school here, which 

 was founded 10 March, 1848, and closed 1873-4. 



Offerton Cox Green. — A council school seating 149, was built 1878. 



Old Park. — Binchester Colliery school, seating 350 and built 1877, is owned and 

 managed by Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd. 



Painshaw. — School Board formed 10 February, 1876. There are 2 Council schools, 

 seating 851. 



Pelton. — There are 5 schools in existence here ; of these 2 are National, viz., Pelton, seating 

 275 and built 1850, and Perkinsville, which seats 513 and was built 1859, and is let on a yearly 

 agreement by C. Perkins and W. E. Manners ; the West Colliery school (Church of England), 

 seating 730, built 1865 by Messrs. Joicey and Co. ; the Beamish Colliery school, seating 372, built 

 1876-7 by the colliery owners ; and Pelton Colliery school, seating 988, built in 1874, let on a 

 yearly agreement by the company. 



PiERCEBRiDGE. — A Church of England school, seating 60, built 1853 and enlarged 1882. 



Pittington. — Two national schools, seating 244 and built 1868 ; and Littletown Colliery 

 school, seating 203, built 1874, and let on a yearly agreement by the Lambton Collieries, Ltd. 



Plawsworth. — The Ncttlesworth Colliery school, seating 175. 



Pollard's Lands. — i Escomb school (Ch. of E.), seating 337, built in 1840 (infants' school 

 1 195) ; Messrs. Stobart make up any deficiency if the Government grant is insufficient. 



Redmarshall. — A Church of England school seating 72, built by James Pallister about 70 

 years ago and rebuilt in I 891. 



Ryhope. — There are 3 schools here. The village school, seating 367, of which the old 

 building, built by subscription in 1810, was converted into the teacher's residence in 1872, when the 

 old chapel was converted into the school ; the Ryhope Colliery school, let on a yearly agreement 

 by the Ryhope Coal Co., seating 1,105 ^"'^ l'"''^ 1861 and 1873 ; and a Roman Catholic school 

 seating 326, built 1874. 



RvToN U.D. — There are 7 schools here. The Greenside national school, seating 234, was 

 built 1813 ; Hedgcfield Colliery, seating 223, built 1866, and maintained by the Stella Coal Co.; 

 the Ryton (Ch. of E.) school, established in 1826 and enlarged 1901 in memory of the Ven. Arch- 

 deacon Thorp, seating 358, possesses under an award of 29 June, 1829, an allotment of 2a. i r. 27 p., 

 and under Charity Commissioners' scheme of 26 November, 1880, the income of the Walker 

 Lawson Endowment, consisting of £(iO Consols. Crawcrook St. Agnes' school (R. C), seating 150, 

 was built in 1886. The Clara Vale Colliery school, seating 298, was built 1898 by the Stella 

 Coal Co., and the Emmaville Colliery and Stargate school, seating 457, is partly maintained by 

 this company. 



Sadberge. — A school was built by subscription about 1799 and demolished about 1866, when 

 the site became part of the churchyard. The present Church of England school, seating 95, 

 then erected on a site given by J.W. Pcnnyman and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 1865, has endow- 

 ments of ;^ii6 IS. id. Consols under will of James Pallister, proved 8 April, 1859, and of 

 £i,2ij 151. gd. Consols, three-fifths of George Buck's charity, subject to Charity Commissioners' 

 scheme of 28 May, 1867. 



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