ONGAR HUNDRED 



CHIGWELL 



in 1914 and 225 in 1930. In 1938 it was reorganized 

 for junior girls and infants. ^3 In May 1952 there 

 were 326 children and 1 1 teachers.*' The school was 

 given controlled status in 1951.90 



The school board for Chigwell parish was at first 

 strongly opposed locally and in 1872 a petition for its 

 removal was sent to the government." This failed, 

 but with other protests it may have caused the board 

 to drop its plan to build a school to replace the National 

 School at Buckhurst Hill. In 1872 the Board built a 

 school in Princes Road and accepted the use of the 

 infant department of the National School (see above), 

 paying only a nominal rent but accepting responsibility 

 for repairs.'^ The board school at first accepted both 

 boys and girls, but from about 1886 it took only boys, 

 the girls attending the National School. '3 Attendance 

 at the board school rose from an average of 1 39 in 1873 

 to 246 in 1886 and the annual grant from ^^95 to 

 ^236.''' In 1884 the infants' school was enlarged to 

 about 164 places and in 1894 the boys' school to about 

 362 places. 95 By the Education Act of 1902 the schools 

 passed under the administration of the Essex Educa- 

 tion Committee, Epping District. In 1904 there were 

 290 boys on the roll, under 9 teachers, of whom 2 were 

 certificated, and 153 infants under 5 teachers, i of 

 whom was certificated.'* Attendance dechned to 229 

 boys and 91 infants in 1938, when the schools were 

 reorganized for junior boys and infants, and in 1940 

 the boys' and infants' departments were amalgamated 

 in a single establishment. '^ In May 1952 there were 

 326 children, under 13 teachers.'* The building in 

 Princes Road is single-storied, of yellow brick with a 

 slate roof Attached is a teacher's house of similar con- 

 struction. 



Owing to the building of the large London County 

 Council housing estate at Hainault the Essex County 

 Council has since 1945 been carrying out a programme 

 of school development in this area which was still 

 incomplete in 1952—3. The following schools were 

 established during this period." 



The Grange County Secondary Modern School 

 (mixed), Manford Way, was opened in September 

 1950. In May 1952 it had 421 pupils and 24 teachers. 



Manford Way County Primary School was opened 

 in November 1948. In May 1952 the junior school 

 had 468 pupils and 1 2 teachers and the infants' school 

 had 320 pupils and 9 teachers. 



The Coppice County Primary School, Manford 

 Way, opened an infants' department in September 

 1952 and in the following November had 213 pupils. 

 The junior department was to be opened in 1953. 



Grange Hill County Primary School, Woodman 

 Path, is a temporary school, opened in February 1948 

 with accommodation for 240 juniors and 160 infants. 



In September 1950 there was accommodation for 760 

 children. In May 1952 there were 888 pupils at the 

 school. 



A branch of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic School 

 was established at Woodman Path in September 1952, 

 and in November 1952 had 344 pupils. This and all 

 the above primary schools are for mixed juniors and 

 infants. 



There have also been a number of private schools in 

 the parish of Chigwell. In 1588 John Cambes of 

 Chigwell was presented before the Archdeacon of 

 Essex for 'that he teacheth a scoole'.' In 1795 a Mrs. 

 King advertised the opening of a school in Chigwell 

 for young ladies.^ In 18 10 there was a boarding 

 academy for young gentlemen at Chigwell under the 

 supervision of John Ray, the fee being 30 guineas a 

 year.3 Ray died in 18 16, when the school apparently 

 closed.'* 



About 1824 F. C. L. Khngender opened a school at 

 Buckhurst Hill House,' held on lease. By 1831 he 

 had raised mortgages totalling j^i.ooo on the property* 

 and in 1833 he offered the premises for sale at ^1,690, 

 asking nothing for any goodwill attached to the school.^ 

 He was adjudged bankrupt in 1834.* Francis Worral 

 Stevens, who had been a master at Bruce Grove, 

 Tottenham (Mdx.), under Rowland Hill, took over 

 the school and continued it until 1848.' The house 

 was then empty for a year but the school was reopened 

 in 1 8 5 1 by Thomas Bickerdike who in that year had 

 an assistant master and 1 5 boarders between 9 and 14 

 years of age."" Bickerdike left Buckhurst Hill in 

 1853 and the house was not afterwards used as a 

 school." 



Between 1850 and 1859 there was a school near 

 Broomhill run by Mary Moss.'^ In 1851 she had 15 

 boarders of both sexes between 3 and 10 years of age." 

 Miss Howell and Miss Lake had a girls' day school in 

 the High Road from 1848.'* In 1854 they moved into 

 part of the premises of Harsnett's Grammar School 

 and remained there until 1865. ■' 



Hannah Hurren had a day and boarding school at 

 Chigwell Row from 1848 to 1850.'* From 1856 to 

 1869 the Revd. William Earle, M.A., had a boys' 

 school at Grange Court in Chigwell village." In 1878 

 the Misses Ann and Catherine Howell had a private 

 school at Broomhill, the Revd. W. L. Wilson a col- 

 legiate school at Oakhurst in Horn Lane and there 

 were five private schools at Buckhurst Hill.'* Oakhurst 

 later became a school and home for destitute Armenian 

 boys under the Revd. G. Thoumaian." From the late 

 19th century the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus 

 and Mary have kept a school at the Manor House in 

 High Road, near Woodford Bridge.^" In 1950 there 

 were also two private schools at Buckhurst Hill.^' 



** Min. of Educ. File 13/46. 



" Inf. from Essex Educ. Cttee. 



»» Min. of Educ. File 13/46. 



»' Ibid. 13/45. See also E.R.O., D/P 

 166/8/11 : 9 May 1872, for a resolution 

 of the vestry protesting against the pro- 

 posed expenditure of the school board. 



»» Min. of Educ. File 1 3/45 ; Chelmsford 

 Chronicle^ 26 Jan., 12 July, 15 Nov. 1872. 



«3 Kelly's Dir. Essex {iSSi, 1886, 1890). 



»« Rep. of Educ. Cttee. of Council, 1873 

 [C. loig-i], p. 407, H.C. (1874), xviii; 

 ibid. 1886, p. 518. 



" Min. of Educ. File i 3/45 ; Schs. under 

 Bd. of Educ. igo2y p. 68. 



'" Essex Educ. Cttee. Handhk. 1904, p. 

 144. 



" Min. of Educ. File 13/45. 



»8 Inf. from Essex Educ. Cttee. 



90 The following account is based on 

 information from the Ministry of Educa- 

 tion, Essex Education Cttee. and Miss 

 E. A. Phillips, Headmistress of Staples 

 Road Infant School, Loughton. 

 ■ E.R.O., D/AEV/14. 



2 Chigwell Church Mag. Feb. 1939. 



3 Essex Union., 9 Jan. 18 to. 

 ♦ Chigwell Par. Reg. 



5 E.R.O., D/DDaMi3. 

 <■ Ibid. 



' Kent and Essex Mercury, 29 Oct. 

 1833. 



8 Essex Union, 18 Feb. 1834. 



9 E.R.O., D/DDa M13. 



■o H.O. 107/1770, igsl'- 



" E.R.O., D/P 166/11/17. 



" E.R.O., D/P 166/11/14-23. 



" H.O. 107/1770, 195/1. 



'« ff'hite's Dir. Essex (1848), 417. 



■5 E.R.O., D/P 166/11/12-29. 



■* IVhite's Dir. Essex (1848), 417; 

 E.R.O., D/P 166/11/12-14. 



" E.R.O., D/P i66/«/ii, 166/11/20- 

 33. This house has recently been bought 

 by the governors of Chigwell School. 



'8 Kelly's Dir. Essex (1878). 



'» Ibid. (1899). 



" Ibid. (1899). 



^" Chigwell U.D. Official Guide (2nd 

 edn.), p. 34. ' 



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