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Meridian Angel Primary School, Enfield; Saint Jerome Church of England Bilingual School, Harrow; St Luke's Church of England Primary, Camden; St Mary's Church of England Primary Norwood Green, Ealing; St Mary's Hampton Church of England Primary, Richmond upon Thames; University Church Free School, Cheshire West and Chester
Some questioned the need for the chapel to invest in education, and whether the poor should be taught to read and write, but a Sunday school was opened in 1902–3 with 160 pupils. In 1880, a day school was added and a separate building erected. [8] In 1812, Whitaker's Sunday School Committee decided to erect a purpose-built Sunday School.
In 1796 he opened a free Sunday School in Pickford Street, which accommodated about 40 children. In doing this he was inspired by Robert Raikes who had initiated the Sunday School movement, and by David Simpson, a local Anglican priest who had earlier provided schools for poor children in the town. Unlike most Sunday Schools, Whitaker's school ...
The Stockport Sunday School is a Sunday school in Stockport, Cheshire, England. Founded in 1784, it had become the largest Sunday school in the world by 1859. [ 1 ] The original school was situated on London Square, Wellington Street, Stockport , behind the town hall.
The Church of England School in Mowsley was built in 1864, but there had been a Sunday school in the village from 1833, which was attended by 17 boys and 22 girls. By 1871 there were 18 boys and 18 girls who attended the new school and in 1872 a school committee was formed who assumed responsibility for the ongoing management of the school ...
It was founded on 16 October 1811 as the "National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales".The Church of England, as the established religion, set out as the aim of the new organisation that "the National Religion should be made the foundation of National Education, and should be the first and chief thing taught to the ...
The Upper Brook Street Chapel, also known as the Unitarian Chapel, the Welsh Baptist Chapel, and later Islamic Academy, is a former chapel of historical architectural importance with an attached Sunday School, located on the east side of Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Greater Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom.
The young Thomas was sent to John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon-on-Thames (now Abingdon School), where he was a boarder from 1761 to 1767. After Abingdon, he gained a scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated BA 1771.