This building opened as a National School for the children of Aby and Greenfield, including infants, in 1852. It cost £400 and at first had 100 pupils on role.

In the twentieth century it became a CE Voluntary Controlled School. The school closed on 31 August 2009

September 2018

Former school now a private residence. 

White's Directory 1872 states "Here is a small day school, attended by about 20 children".

The school must then have closed because Kelly's Directory 1919 states "The children of this parish attend the schhools at; Brattleby & Scampton".

DB 13 November 2020

The school standing on the corner of Parsons Lane and West Street was built as a Girls' National School in 1851. The cost of £200 was donated by John Rear.

September 2018

The original school building on West Street,

 Undated postcard

Following the creation of the new civil parish of Amber Hill in December 1880, two School Boards were formed to undertake the provision of schools in this area of the fen.

This was one of three schools that were built and this ultimately became the only school in the area and was named Amber Hill and Toftstead School.

It was constructed in 1881 at a cost of £900 for 134 pupils, extended in 1969 and closed in 2010.

Its present role is as one of three Pilgrim Schools in the county offering educational support to children with complex medical and/or mental health needs.

Jean Howard, 2023

A school marked here on the OS 25 inch map published 1905 and Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 has an entry  

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1862, for 43 children; average attendance, 32 ; Miss Sarah Agnes Short, mistress"

The modern school building, on the same site, most recently used as a business centre.

Currently for sale with an asking price of £200,000.

DB 24 July 2020 

Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School with the date stone reading "1838".

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in the High Street in 1780.

It was enlarged in 1803 but was replaced in 1817 on the same site.

A Sunday school added in 1838.

This chapel was demolished to make way for a third chapel which was opened, again on the same site, in 1868.

A new kitchen and toilets were added in 1973.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 59" 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

Church School founded 1851.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states

"National School, built for 150 children, with an average attendance of 115 - George Frederick Potter, master; Mrs. Lucy Potter, mistress

The 1919 edition states 

"Public Elementary School, for 190 children; average attendance, 135 ; George Potter, master"

It is now Barrowby Church of England Primary School.

http://www.barrowby.lincs.sch.uk/ 

DB 12 November 2018

Isaac Pitman was master at this school in Queen Street between 1832 and 1835.

August 2010

Building inscription states :-

"National Schools

A.D. MDCCCLV" 

School closed in 1982 and is now a private residence.

DB 20 April 2018 

Wesleyan School located immediately behind the chapel.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1801 and a chapel, in the High Street, opened in 1802.

A larger chapel was built on the same site and opened on the 14.1.1840.

A day school was added in 1855 and dosed in 1893.

The chapel was altered and an organ installed in 1897.

The organ was replaced in 1966 by one from the redundant Aubourn Parish Church.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 16"

Unfortunately the chapel has now closed and been converted into a private house.

DB 16 June 2020 

Detail of the date stone MDCCCLV (1855). 

DB 16 June 2020 

White's Directory 1872 lists "Walker Mrs Nancy, parochial schoolmistress" as a resident.

Kelly's Directory 1913 has "Public Elementary School, erected in 1876 & enlarged in 1893, for 92 children; average attendance, 78; Harry Thompson, master"

Now the Pilgrim School a Community Special School (Hospital School) providing education to pupils with physical or mental illness.

DB 17 December 2022

Former school now a private house. 

"The school was built as a parochial school in 1840 and became a National School.

It was restored in 1886.

Senior children were transferred to the Sir William Robertson School at Welbourn from 10 February 1961.

The school was closed on 18 December 1968"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplaySearchResults.aspx?oid=645107&mode=c&pageNo=11 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1840, for 85 children;

in 1886 the building was thoroughly restored & improved by Rev. Canon R. Whittaker M.A. late rector 1886-91;

Henry Singleton, master" 

DB 8 October 2018

Former school now a private house.

"The school was built in 1873 as Belchford Board School by the Belchford School Board, formed in 1871.

It became a Council School in 1903 and a County School in c.1947.

It was a primary school by the 1960s.

The school was closed on 18 December 1981, with the children transferred to schools in Horncastle and Tetford. 

The Belchford School Board Evening Continuation School was administered by the Belchford School Board and held in the premises of the Belchford Board School.

It opened on 12 October 1897 and was discontinued by December 1898 because of non-attendance"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/BELCHFORD-COUNTY-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/886082.record?pt=S 

DB 3 September 2018

The entry in Kelly's Directory 1919 reads "Council (mixed), built in 1876, at a cost of about £2,700 for 400 children ; average attendance, 141 ; Henry Judson, master; Mrs. Martha Judson, infants' mist. Correspondent to Managers, C. J. Hodgkinson"

Now Billingborough Primary School.

DB 7 November 2020 

The National School was built here, by subscription, in 1872. It could hold 100 children. It was later known as Bishop Norton and Atterby National School.

The closure of the school was precipitated in June 1945 when it proved to be impossible to recruit sufficient teachers.

"School, now parish room. 1848 by W A Nicholson ...

This building is part of the complete estate village erected by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064286 

DB 2020

Date stone reading "1823". 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"In the village is a National School, established 35 years ago, by the Chaplin family. The present school is a neat building in the Elizabethan style"

DB 1 August 2020

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"Blyton school was built in 1826, at the cost of £100, on land purchased of Col. Henry Coape, pursuant to the will of John Milns, who left £500 for the establishment and maintenance of a school, for the education of poor children of this parish.

The master has £20 a year, as the interest of the remaining £400, for which he instructs 20 free scholars"

Kelly's Directory 1919 states :- 

"There is a fund for educational purposes left by John Milns, in 1819, with money producing about £18 yearly, managed by trustees.

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1881 & enlarged in 1895 by Sir H. B. Bacon bart. for 150 scholars ; Colin Stevenson, master"

DB 28 January 2020

Parish Council Office is built on the site of a former National School. 

An Inscription Stone has been reset at the side of the building.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"Here is also a Girls' School, built by subscription in 1842, at the cost of £200"

DB 28 January 2020

Built in the 1850's and closed 1975.

Became a primary school by 1947. Following closure the children were transferred to Navenby Church of England Primary School. 

DB 21 February 2018 

Date stone appears to have two inscriptions one on top of the other :-

"CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL 1869"

and "WESLEYAN METHODIST" with another date.

DB 26 June 2019

"House, [on Wide Bargate] used C19 as a boarding school, now a dental surgery. Late C18, with minor C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1389059 

DB 21 May 2019 

Former school now a furnishings and antiques centre. Kelly's Directory 1913 has an entry :-

"Laughton's Charity School, Witham place, was founded in 1707 by John Laughton, for educating & apprenticing boys, the sons of freemen of Boston.

This charity has been diverted to the purpose of Secondary Education; the buildings are used for Boston Central Classes, consisting of the following sections :-

Preparatory classes for girls from 13 to 16 years of age; Girl Pupil Teachers' Centre; Evening classes for men are also held here"

DB 31 March 2022 

"The school was established in 1851 by Martha and Mary Gee as Boston Middle Girls School at George Street, Boston and was "intended for female children whose parents are in the rank next above the actual poor".

It subsequently moved to its current site at Tunnard Street, at a rebuilding cost of £800.

In 1905 the school was renamed as Conway School"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excell_International_School 

DB 14 April 2022

Still just possible to make out the text "MIDDLE CLASS GIRLS SCHOOL" and the names "MARTHA & MARY GEE" who established the school.

Kelly's Directory has an entry which seems to relate to this school "St. James's Endowed Middle Class Girls' School, Red Lion street, was erected in 1896, at an estimated cost of £800; Miss Mary Stothert, mistress".

DB 14 April 2022

"Originally opened in 1877 as Star Lane Board School the original building was two schoolrooms and an attached schoolmaster's house.

The architect was Charles Bell of 4 Union Street, London and the contractors Messrs George and William Priest of Grantham, built at a cost of £3,727"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_Abbey_Church_of_England_Academy 

Now Bourne Abbey Church of England Primary Academy.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states "Board, Star lane, erected in 1874 at a cost of £3,727, for 480 children; average attendance 350; John Derry, master ; Miss Clara Ward, mistress ; Miss Emma Blaxter, infants' mistress"

Abbey Road previously known as Star Lane. 

DB 18 July 2020 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 states "The Old National School, in North street, built in 1829, is now used for the purposes of technical education, under the direction of a local committee cooperating with the county council"

DB 20 August 2020

"1678. Single storey building in red and vitrified brick"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241967

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1889 states :- 

"Grammar, Churchyard, founded in the year 1636 by Wm. Trollope esq. of Bourn, who bequeathed a yearly rentcharge of £78 out of the lands called "Saint Lombardi" in Weston, and to pay £30 yearly to the schoolmaster, £30 to six poor & aged men occupying the almshouses, & to expend the remainder in repairing the buildings & in finding clothing & fuel for the almspeople ; Lord Kesteven & the vicar of Bourn are the trustees; The Rev. Henry Robert Field Canham B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, master"

DB 18 July 2020 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1880, for 100 children; Beaumont Mawer, master"

and in 1885

"built in 1880, to hold 100; average attendance, 52; Miss Jane Hicks, mistress"

DB 20 February 2019

The rector of Branston, Revd Peregrine Curtois, funded this extension on the north-east side All Saints' Church in 1837 to provide a Sunday School for the village.

June 2013

The building occupying Nos 9 and 11 Hall Lane was originally an Infants School built by Hon A S Leslie Melville of Branston Hall.

It opened in 1837 for 70 children and, like other schools of the period, was supported by voluntary contributions.

June 2013

"School formerly small country house. 1707, remodelled 1821".

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360551

Marked as the Rectory on OS 25 inch map published 1886. In 1885 Kelly's Directory has "Sutton Rev. Frdk. Heathcote H. A. [rector].

DB 2020

"Formerly School and Schoolmasters house. 1871"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147635 

Now a private house. 

DB 2 July 2018

The school and adjacent house for the schoolmaster were built in 1871.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Date stone reading "SWW 1871".

White's Directory 1872 states "BRATTLEBY, a village and parish, 6 miles N. by W. of Lincoln, on a pleasant acclivity of the Wolds, has 122 inhabitants, and 1220 acres of fertile land, all the property and manor of S. W. Wright, Esq., who resides at the Hall, a neat modern mansion, and supports a school here, which he rebuilt in 1872, for the education of poor children".

DB 19 November 2020

The village and parish of Broadholme was historically part of Nottinghamshire but was transferred to Lincolnshire in 1989.

Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1904 states 

"Public Elementary School (mixed), for 35 children ; average attendance, 23 ; Miss Harriet E. Simpson, mistress"

"The population in 1901 was 90"

DB 23 October 2018 

The first school at Brothertoft was built by Thomas Gee of Brothertoft Hall in 1856 and Elizabeth Arlam was the first school mistress.

This school, known as Hedgehog Bridge School, opened in 1881 and closed in December 1969. It is now in use as the Village Hall.

OR, are we mistaken, and is this actually Barley Sheaf School, which opened 1882 and closed 1969?

July 2017

The school was opened as a Free School in 1854 and was supported by Christ's Hospital. It has been a County School since the late 1940s.

In 1999 it was re-named Bucknall Rural Villages School to reflect its wide catchment area, but it has recently reverted to the simpler name of Bucknall Primary School.

July 2017

This was built in 1860 as a National School by Henry Edwardes Handley (1835-92) of the Culverthorpe family.

It closed in October 1969 with children transferring to the primary school in Helpringham.

September 2013

A second view of the old school.

White's Directory 1872 states "There is a neat schoolroom, accommodating 30 children, which was built and given to the parish in 1860, by its then owner, Captain Handley"

DB 20 June 2022

"In 1961 with the building of the Giles School, the children aged 11 were transferred there.

The two Butterwick Schools combined under one Head Teacher, Miss D Calthrop, with the infants using the Boys' School and the juniors using the Girls' School.

The Governors had a new building constructed, combining both groups of children in 1973, with 5 classrooms"

https://www.butterwick.lincs.sch.uk/page/?title=About+The+School&pid=53 

See also

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Butterwick/section.asp?catId=14858 

DB 9 June 2018 

"There has been a school in Butterwick for a very long time.

In 1665 Anthony Pinchbeck left seventy-four acres of land to a group of people who were charged with the task of administering the land, renting it to farmers and using the rent to provide a grammar school for all the boys in the surrounding area and a house for the headmaster.

On October 23rd 1876, under the Endowed Schools Act, the endowment of the school is devoted to Elementary Education - no longer a grammar school.

The old building was to be adapted as an infant and girls' school and a new school built for boys"

https://www.butterwick.lincs.sch.uk/page/?title=About+The+School&pid=53  

See also

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Butterwick/section.asp?catId=14858 

DB 9 June 2018 

The National School (1824) in Church Street was replaced in 1859 by new buildings on South Dale.

The Church of England School of 1859 became part of a joint Methodist/CE Controlled primary school in 1967, when a much larger school building was provided close by. It is now a private dwelling.  

(Does the decorative use of brick on this chimney in the form of the Star of David have any significance?)

The 1859 memorial stone is a tribute to James Green Dixon, a corn, coal and seed merchant in the town and member of the well-to-do landowning Dixon family of Holton le Moor.

Ken Redmore, 2010

The 1859 memorial stone is a tribute to James Green Dixon, a corn, coal and seed merchant in the town and member of the well-to-do landowning Dixon family of Holton le Moor.

Ken Redmore, 2010

The early Grammar School building dates from 1631. It is built of ironstone and was restored in 1930.

June 2010

"The village school was opened in 1869, and closed before 1970.

The building, to the west of the railway line, is now a private home"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careby 

DB 27 April 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School, built in 1869, & enlarged in 1895, for 80 children, Mrs. Haden Scott, mistress"

DB 27 April 2019

"The school was built as a National School in 1858, replacing a school held in the vestry of the parish church, and was enlarged in 1893.

Senior children were transferred to other schools from January 1923.

The school was closed on 21 July 1983, with the children transferred to Brant Broughton CE Junior School, Brant Broughton Methodist School, Bassingham County Primary School, and secondary schools"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/CARLTON-LE-MOORLAND-SCHOOL/886212.record?pt=S 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 states that Lord Middleton gave the school an annual gratuity of £15. Lord Middleton was lord of the manor and principal landowner.

DB 13 June 2018

A National School, also serving Normanton, built in 1841 at a cost of £500, of which Earl Brownlow contributed £200.

The school building was enlarged in 1896.

August 2012

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 states that a "School Board was formed 1875 and a school erected to hold 150 children". Also stated that Edward William West was master.

Now Caythorpe Primary School. 

DB 25 April 2018

"Former school, now house; 1838"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360306

DB 25 April 2018

A second view of the former school.

DB 20 April 2023

This was built as a junior school for 360 boys by Croft and Bentley of Grimsby in 1896. Girls and Infants accommodation were added to the north on Elliston Street.

June 2017

This large town school was opened in 1902 for 360 boys and 360 girls.

June 2017

This school was opened in 1907 and enlarged in 1910 to give room for 430 boys, 430 girls and 170 infants.

June 2017

The National Boys' School was built in 1856 to replace an earlier National School of 1815.

It was demolished and St Peter's Church Hall now stands on the site.

A plaque on its south wall was originally part of the National School.

undated postcard

The first National School here opened in 1856 for 300 pupils; it was later enlarged for 900.

June 2017

This was built on Isaac's Hill as the Technical Institute in 1901 and later became the Pulblic Library for the town.

It ceased to be a library in 1984.

June 2017

The school on Rectory Lane was built as a Parochial School in 1854 and later enlarged (to the left in the photo), as can be seen from the change in brick colour.

July 2018

Former primary school on School Lane. Inscription above the door reads

"NATIONAL SCHOOL

founded by

EDMUND TURNOR Esq

1824" 

"In 1824 Turnor founded a National School in Colsterworth run under the principles of Scottish educationalist Dr Bell, which also served nearby villages and parishes of Stoke Rochford, Skillington, and Woolsthorpe.

The school included a school room and an adjoining house and garden for the schoolmaster"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Turnor_(antiquarian) 

DB 17 May 2018

"Cottage, formerly schoolmaster's house (on Spring Lane).

Early C18, altered c.1824 when converted to schoolmaster's accommodation, with C19 and C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147318 

DB 17 May 2018

Day school erected 1842 the gift of Mr John Ovrey

Now used as a youth club.

http://www.coningsbybaptistchurch.org/youth.htm 

DB 25 June 2018

Detail of inscription :- 

"GENERAL BAPTIST

DAY SCHOOL,

Erected by the Gift of

MR JOHN OVREY

of 

CONINGSBY;

1845" 

DB 25 June 2018

"The Willoughby Memorial Library and Art Gallery is the former grammar school established in 1673 by Charles Read, a wealthy shipping magnate" 

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=8056&p=0 

Restored and endowed by Lord Ancaster 1965 in memory of his son Timothy who was lost at sea in a Mediterranean storm.

http://www.willoughbygallery.com/ 

DB 15 April 2018

This National School built in 1844 by subscription replaced an earlier building of 1822. It closed in 1963.

July 2016

National School on St James's Drove erected 1857 for £1800 for 200. It is built in red brick with Bath Stone dressings.

September 2017

Leys House viewed from Saint Andrew's churchyard.

"Former school, now house. 1720, restored 1855, with minor C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308560

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states 

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1720 restored in 1855,  new school built in 1893 by Sir W.E Welby-Gregory bart. at a cost of £I,400, for 120 children

The old school has been converted into a master's house"

DB 16 September 2018 

New school building. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1913 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1720, restored in 1855, new school built in 1893 by Sir W.E. Welby-Gregory bart. at a cost of £1,400, for 120 children; average attendance, 160; the old school has been converted into a master's house; Albert Edward Dove, master; Mrs. Edith Dove, mistress; Miss Rose Elizabeth Sandy & Miss Linda Saywell, assistant mistresses"

DB 22 June 2020

Former school now village hall.

"The school was built as a National School in 1872 and was closed on 21 May 1926.

It re-opened on 14 January 1929 for children under the age of nine years (older children being transferred to Claypole and Long Bennington Schools).

The school was again closed on 28 March 1961, with the children transferred to Claypole and Long Bennington Schools"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/DRY-DODDINGTON-CE-SCHOOL/727430.record?pt=S 

DB 5 September 2018

Dunholme National School was built in 1862. It later became a Church of England Controlled Primary School and occupied new buildings elsewhere in the village.

May 2016

A second view of the Old School. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1862, for 86 children; Miss Mary Harrington Towler mistress"

DB 23 March 2020

The school and adjoining schoolhouse were built in 1855. The school closed c.1950.

October 2017

Former National School now a private house.

Datestone reads "1852".

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1852 & since enlarged, for 108 children &; again enlarged in 1890 at a cost of £200, for 135 children; Archie 0.Stokes, master; Miss Bertha Phillips, infants' mistrss"

DB 25 June 2018

"The school was built in 1878, and opened as Eagle Board School by the Eagle United District School Board, formed in 1877.

It became Eagle Council School in 1903 and Eagle County School c.1947.

It was known as Eagle County Primary School prior to September 1999, since when the present title has been used"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/EAGLE-COMMUNITY-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/716787.record?pt=S 

DB 30 July 2018

A Free school was founded in the village in 1719. In 1874 a new school building was opened and it took children from Miningsby as well as East Kirkby.

New buildings (seen here) were opened in 1973 and children from Old Bolingbroke were added. It was known as the Gregory Croft CE (Aided) Primary School.

Because of a falling roll the school closed in July 1989.

May 2018

Note: The school was named for the charitable endowment made by Gregory Croft and Margaret his wife on 16 May 1719.

This was built in 1867 as a National School also serving the neighbouring villages of Ashby cum Fenby, Brigsley, Hawerby and West Ravendale.

The architect was James Fowler of Louth, his first joint school and church project when he was 29.

June 2014

Jean Howard, 2 July 2021

"The school was built in 1896 as East Stockwith Board School, by the East Stockwith and Walkerith United District School Board, formed in that year.

It became East Stockwith Council School in 1903, and, East Stockwith County Primary School in c.1947.

Between 19 May and 6 October 1947, the school was based in the buildings of the former East Ferry School while essential work was carried out (presumably linked to the water damage to pre-1947 documents.)

Senior children were transferred to Gainsborough Ropery Road School from 10 September 1947.

The school was closed on 17 July 1970, with the children transferred to Gainsborough North County Primary School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/EAST-STOCKWITH-COUNTY-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/886216.record?pt=S 

DB 29 December 2018

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062345 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states :-

"Easton (mixed), erected about 1878, on the estate of & supported entirely by Lady Cholmeley, for 45 children; average attendance, 32; Miss Annie Elizabeth Speake, misstress"

DB 1 April 2019 

"shield and the date 1878"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062345 

Cholmeley family heraldry. 

DB 1 April 2019 

Edenham Primary School is Tudor in style, and was built in 1873 of limestone ashlar with a Collyweston slate roof. A single external chimney stack with a tall ashlar shaft is to the rear.

The building is single storey, with a chamfered plinth with pierced stone vents.

June 2018

The National School on Battle Green was built 1876 and enlarged in 1912 to hold 300 pupils.

It is now a pub/restaurant "The Old School Inn".

September 2010

Stated in White's Directory 1872 that :-

"In 1667, Henry Pell bequeathed out of a farm here, a yearly rent charge of £10 for the education of poor children of this parish, and of Evedon, Asgarby and Howell.

This farm has been recently purchased by the lord of the manor, and from the proceeds of the sale a sum of £383. 13s. 4d. has been invested in the Three-per-Cent. consols, and the interest arising from it is paid in lieu of the rent-charge.

He also gave a house and garden for the use of the schoolmaster, who teaches sixteen free scholars, viz., 10 belonging to Ewerby, and two each from the above parishes.

A new School, which was built by subscription in 1841, and considerably enlarged in 1871, is attended by over 70 children.

Its endowment is supplemented by Government grants, private subscriptions, and the children's pence.

The teacher's residence was rebuilt in 1858, at an outlay of £178"

Also 

"Bone John Cage Richd. & Mrs Jane, National school master & mistress"

DB 26 April 2021

White's Directory 1872 states "Here is a small Free School, which is about to be enlarged by the lord of the manor, to meet the increased requirements of the neighbourhood".

DB 2020

The National School was built in 1875 for 130 pupils.

A free school was founded in the village in 1713 with endowments at Pidley (Hunts) and Pointon.

September 2013

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 reads "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1847 for 80 children ; Miss Miriam Ackland, mistress".

School was closed in 1987. 

DB 13 July 2020

"Sunday school. 1837 ... West gable front has central renewed double doors under timber lintel, and above an ashlar plaque inscribed 1837"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1119674?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 August 2022

The building on the left is Friskney School (then one of three in the village - others being on the Friskney Eaudyke and the other in the former East Fen).

It catered for pupils between the ages of 5 and 15 until the late 1950s and then became a primary school.

The stile at the eastern end of the churchyard is on the right of the photograph.

Postcard: date stamp 1941 (George VI)

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "C. E. School (mixed), built in 1850, for 30 children; Miss Fanny Burnett, mistress".

School closed in 1959 and is now a private house. 

St Andrew's Church visible in the background. 

DB 18 February 2020

Fulletby school appears to have started in 1849 but the provision of a schoolteacher's house took another ten years.

 The plans dated 1858 were drawn up by Anthony Bellamy [was this as in Bellamy & Hardy of Lincoln - right date?] and the building is dated in the southern gable end at 1859.

Jean Howard, 17 January 2022

"The General Charity School for boys in Trinity Street (originally founded in 1784) was placed in connection with the National Society in 1847 in order to become eligible for government grants.

An Infants' National School was opened in Beckey Lane [Etherington Street?] by 1849, and moved to new premises in Trinity Street with girls as a Mixed School in August 1872.

Separate Girls' and Infants' Schools were formed at the beginning of 1878.

The management of the Holy Trinity Schools was delegated by the Gainsborough National Schools Committee to a Managing Committee, including elected parents or subscribers, from 1872 until 1903, when separate Foundation Managers were appointed.

The three schools were closed on 23 July 1930.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/GAINSBOROUGH-HOLY-TRINITY-SCHOOLS/781090.record?pt=S 

This building now in use by the Gainsborough Model Railway Society.

http://www.gainsboroughmodelrailway.co.uk/ 

DB 29 December 2018

"Lea Road Council School was opened on 3 May 1906, replacing the Bridge Road and Hickman Street Schools.

There were initially separate Departments for Boys, Girls and Infants"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplaySearchResults.aspx?oid=645107&mode=c&pageNo=15 

DB 18 June 2019

"In August 1930 the school was re-organised with Departments for Infants, Junior Girls and Senior Girls"

"The school became Gainsborough Lea Road County Primary School and Gainsborough Lea Road Secondary Modern School for girls c.1945.

These were re-named as Gainsborough South Secondary School and Gainsborough South County School in 1956.

The South Secondary School was closed on 16 December 1965"

"In 1993, the Gainsborough South County Infant School was merged with the Gainsborough Benjamin Adlard County Junior School, on the latter site, to form the Gainsborough Benjamin Adlard County Primary School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplaySearchResults.aspx?oid=645107&mode=c&pageNo=15 

The iconic building subsequently became a business centre but has now been empty for many years.

DB 18 June 2019

"The building of the present railway commenced in 1953 [in Florence Terrace], and has now become one of the largest 'O' gauge model railways of its kind in the country.

Based on the East Coast Main Line from London Kings Cross to Leeds Central, the railway covers 2500 square feet, has over 1200 feet of main line track and needs ten operators"

http://www.gainsboroughmodelrailway.co.uk/index.html 

Building was formerly part of the Holy Trinity Schools which closed on 23 July 1930.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/GAINSBOROUGH-HOLY-TRINITY-SCHOOLS/781090.record?pt=S 

DB 27 December 2014

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"St. John's, St. John's terrace, boys' school erected in 1883, for 184; girls' & infants', erected in 1887, for 150 girls & as many infants; Richard Judson, master; Mrs. A. Webb, girls' mistress; Miss G. Spencer, infants' mistress"

This is the building on Strafford Street erected in 1887. 

DB 18 June 2019

Undated postcard.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Council School (mixed), built in 1877, for 91 children & enlarged in 1904, for 101 children; Hugh Rushby master"

Undated postcard.

"Senior children were transferred to Market Rasen Secondary Modern School from September 1946. The school was closed on 23 July 1971, with the children transferred to Hemswell RAF School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/GLENTHAM-COUNTY-SCHOOL/825240.record?pt=S 

A school marked here, at the junction between Finkin Street and Castlegate, on the OS 25 inch map published 1904.

DB 9 March 2019

Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School on Sandon Road was built in 1911 by H H Dunn*. It is Listed Grade II.

Margaret Thatcher (nee Roberts) was a pupil here in the 1940s.

* Herbert Henry Dunn of Lincoln was an architect who specialised in school buildings. He later became County Architect for Cambridgeshire CC and is perhaps best known for Sawston Village College.

undated postcard

"Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, built in 1910 to the designs of H. H. Dunn"

"Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School (KGGS) opened in 1910 as a fee-paying girls' grammar school to cater for the education of Grantham's growing population.

It was designed by Herbert Henry Dunn of Lincoln who appears to have specialised in school buildings.

He made additions in 1904-8 to the De Aston Comprehensive School in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and to the County School for Boys in Cambridge, and he also designed the Shire Hall in Cambridge (1931-2)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1412888  

DB 9 March 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Kesteven & Grantham Girls' Secondary School was erected on a site of the barracks field in 1910, at a cost of £10,400; Miss H. Gladys Williams M.A. head mistress"

DB 9 March 2019

Now known as the King's School, the institution has an unbroken history on the same site since its re-endowment by Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, in 1528.

Famous early scholars included William Cecil, Isaac Newton and Colley Cibber.

The original school building is centre right in this view; the parish church of St Wulfram is immediately to the left.

undated postcard

The Grammar School is located in Church Street. The old school was built by the 1520s under the terms of the wills of Henry Curteys and his son Richard.

The school was refounded under the will of Bishop Fox in 1528 and was endowed by Edward VI. Famous pupils include Lord Burghley, Sir Isaac Newton, Arthur Storer and playwright Colley Cibber.

Adjacent to the old school is a stone-fronted Georgian townhouse from c1730.  The school is not normally open to the public.

postcard by Whipple of Grantham, 1903

A modern view of the same building from the west,

April 2011

SLHA Conference "Vernacular Buildings in Grantham" being held in the "Old School" fronting Church Street.

"Schoolroom built 1497"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360231 

Isaac Newton's Signature is on the sill beneath the furthest window on the right hand side.

DB 11 March 2017

Viewed from Brook Street with the blue plaques to Albert Ball VC and Joseph Tombs VC visible.

DB 4 December 2018 

Signature visible upper left in this image. 

"Isaac Newton was a King's School scholar between 1655 and 1660.

As was customary in his time, he carved his signature on the wall of what is today's school side hall, although the signature has never been confirmed as authentic; visitors from around the world come to view this indication of Newton's education"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_School,_Grantham 

DB 11 March 2017

This school has always been for boys and girls aged 7 to 11.

The buildings date from 1859 and are by the architect Edward Browning of Stamford (1816-1882).

March 2017

A large primary school was built in 1883 opposite St John's Church and among the housing for the workers at Hornsby's engineering works.

It was originally Spittlegate St John the Evangelist National School and later became Spittlegate CE Controlled Primary School.

The school is physically linked to the presbytery and church.

"A school was built in 1833 and rebuilt in 1859. The school was relocated to a more distant site in 1928"

http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Nottingham/Grantham-St-Mary-the-Immaculate 

The entrance to St Mary's Hall 1887 is to the left in this image. 

DB 9 March 2019

The school was built in 1833.

DB 9 March 2019

School rebuilt in 1859.

DB 9 March 2019

Sir Edward Smith’s Free School was built on this site in 1716 for Great Carlton, Little Carlton and Castle Carlton.

The building in this photograph was erected in 1838 on the same site in what is called Chapel Lane.

It served as a school until 1976, but has now been converted to residential use.

Jean Howard, January 2024

A second view of Great Carlton's former village school.

Jean Howard, January 2024 

St Sebastian's Church of England Primary School.

Date stone reads 1841.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1841 at a cost of £300, enlarged in 1872, with the addition of a teacher's house, at a cost of over £1,000, and further enlarged in 1896, at a cost of £300 ; it is supported in part by a small endowment of £11: the school will hold 224 children ; Edward Lloyd Davies, master"

DB 9 March 2019

Former Sunday School directly across the road from the chapel in Green Street.

Date stone reads 

"PRIMITIVE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS 1886" 

Now a private house.

DB 11 March 2019

A National School built in 1828 by subscription on ground presented by the Marquess of Bristol. In the nineteenth century it had annual endowments of 19gns.

By the turn of the twentieth century it was known as Hale Magna CE School. It closed in summer 1987.

June 2017

"Corporation Grammar school, now District Registrar's office.

1867 for Grimsby Corporation, with C20 additions and alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1379889

Grimsby, Cleethorpes & District Civic Society green plaque states "Opened in 1867, this building served the town for many years as the Corporation Grammar School for boys" 

DB 13 October 2018 

Built in 1876-8 in Gothic style, with a three-storey clock tower over the main entrance, Holme Hill School is by the architect Charles Bell, who won a nationwide competition for its design.

Frank Robinson, December 2014

Former primary school, now the Grimsby Central Children's Centre.

June 2017

Built as junior school 1892.

June 2017

Infants were first admitted here in 1892

June 2017

Built by G F Heneage Esq in 1846 and enlarged in 1886. It was known as Hainton Heneage's Estate CE School in 1900.

The school was owned by Lord Heneage until 1929, when it was transferred to Lindsey County Council. It closed in July 1970.

White's Directory 1856 reports 

"The National School was built in1847. It receives most of the following yearly doles, left for the poor parishioners, namely - £2. 2s. from 1A. 8P. of land, allotted in lieu of the old poor's land, in Longlands Field; £1, left by Henry Mowbray, in 1697 and £2. 13s. 9d. from fourteen small rent-charges, one of which is only 1d., another 4d., two 6d., and two 1s. each"

In 1919 Kelly's Directory has "Public Elementary School (mixed), with master's residence attached, enlarged in 1907, for 100 children" Mrs. M. Evans, mistress"

DB 26 November 2023

"The manor currently serves as the British campus for the University of Evansville and partners with Eastern Illinois University and Western Kentucky University"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlaxton_Manor 

DB 22 June 2020

Viewed from the churchyard. 

"School and school house, now a house. Mid C19, probably incorporating fragments of an earlier building, with late C20 alterations ...

This building is one of those remodelled c1820-1840 by Gregory Gregory, Lord of the Manor of Harlaxton, following the precepts of JC Loudon"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1187959 

DB 22 June 2020 

The school was opened as a National School in 1851.

Senior children were transferred to Waddington School from February 1941.

The school was closed on 21 July 1983, with the children transferred to Navenby CE School and other schools.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/HARMSTON-CE-SCHOOL/529177.record?pt=S 

Located at the top of School Lane but now a private house. Inscription on building reads

"National Schools

MDCCCLI" 

DB 8 May 2018 

The primary school in Hatton opened as a National School in 1864 and closed in 1951, with children transferring to schools in Baumber and Wragby.

August 2013

Old School,Cameron Street now the headquarters of Heritage Lincolnshire.

"Heritage Lincolnshire is a local charity working to conserve the rich history of the county for the benefit of people who live and work in the area"

https://www.heritagelincolnshire.org/about 

DB 21 March 2020

Pupils of Garratt's Boys School in the 1920s.

The Master is Mr Simmons.

The chalkboard appears to carry the lettering "Heighington Endowed School 1922".

Heighington House in the early twentieth century was run as a Girls' Finishing School where daughters of wealthy farmers 'learnt enough French for a menu, deportment and conversazioné', according to one ex-pupil.

It was originally a farmhouse and bears on a front quoin a sundial with the words 'William Arden fecit'. Arden was a farmer from Bassingham who retired here and built the stone front on the old brick house.

This is Heighington's Chapel of Ease before 1863 when it still served as the Boys' School for local villages.

The Rector feared that it might be mistaken for a Methodist Chapel, at a time when these brick chapels were appearing widely in Lincolnshire, so he had it faced in stone.

He also fitted the building with pews and enhanced it with an east window of stained glass.

Two school rooms for the boys were built on the north side with a connecting door into the Chapel so that the right to the Charity Fund for the boys to be taught in the Chapel of Ease was retained.

The building existed in 1500 and probably long before and was originally thatched. It is still used as Heighington's Church.

A sketch suggesting how the primary school in the village would have looked when first built in 1877.

The school opened on 8 April 1878.

Drawing by Hilary Healey, 1998

Former school, at the end of Mill Lane, now the village hall. 

"The school was originally founded as a Free School by Mrs Jane Dymoke in 1727.

It was known as Hemingby Hospital School by 1903.

From the late 1940s senior children were transferred to Horncastle.

The school appears to have been closed on 17 July 1970"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/HEMINGBY-HOSPITAL-SCHOOL/529173.record?pt=S  

"In April 1969 a public meeting was held to discuss the possible closure of the small village school.

Unfortunately the closure went ahead and in 1974 the Village Hall Committee purchased the building for £1,000"

https://hemingby.net/village-hall/ 

DB 3 September 2018

Former school now a private house.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states " Public Elementary 'School at Haydor (mixed), built in 1835 & enlarged in 1885, for 150 children; William John Smith, master"

Date stones read "SHN 1835" and "JAH1885"

John Archer Houblon esq. was lord of the manor and chief landowner in 1885.

DB 31 May 2020

Former school on the corner of East Street and Redbourne Road.

DB 4 April 2024

The school was built as a National School in 1857, was leased to Lindsey County Council as Hogsthorpe Council School in 1929, and became Hogsthorpe County School c.1947.

Prior to September 1999 the school was known as Hogsthorpe County Primary School.

September 2018

A National School was first provided by the Dixon family in 1858. It was replaced by this building, which was designed by H G Gamble, in 1913.

The decorated gable of what was latterly St Luke's CE Aided Primary School carries the patriotic message 'Live for God & King & Country'.

The school closed in 2006.

May 2016

Kelly's Directory 1913 states :-

"Public Elementary School (infants), built in 1863 at a cost of £200, defrayed by the late Miss Southwell, for 60 children ; average attendance, 10; Miss Anne Sentance, mistress".

Now the Old School Nursery.

DB 13 May 2023

"Grade II listed school with attached Schoolmaster's house, now two houses, dating from 1845 and enlarged in 1892"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/School-House-and-the-Old-School--Horbling/910056.record?pt=S 

"A Free School was founded here in 1691 by Edward Browne. That building was replaced in 1845 by another Edward Brown, Reverend. That building was replaced in 1851 and enlarged in 1892"

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Horbling 

DB 5 May 2018

A second view of the school.

Kelly's Directory 1919 states "Public Elementary (Endowed) Schools (mixed), for 120 Children average attendance 53: endowed by Edward Brown esq. formerly of Horbling, who died in 1692, with lands in Wigtoft, producing about £65 yearly; the late Rev. Thomas Brown bequeathed £500, invested in Consols, for the benefit of this school:

the school was erected in 1851 & enlarged in 1892 at a cost of £150, half of which was given by the late E. N. Conant esq.; Shenton Lovell, master.

A new scheme for the distribution of the educational endowments has been approved by the Board of Education, £10 is distributed in prizes yearly to the scholars of the Elementary school & £10 to the upkeep of the Sunday school"

DB 7 November 2020

The school was built in 1858 as Horkstow National School. In 1953 children over the age of 9 were transferred to Saxby CE School because of increased numbers.

The school was closed on 21 July 1967.

April 2018

British School on South Street, Horncastle, dates from 1814.

It was later used as a drill hall and is now one of the many antiques centres in the town.

Children of non-conformist families attended the school which used the Lancaster system of teaching.

Pearl Wheatley, 2010

The former children's home on Mareham Road became site of Horncastle Residential College in 1969.

The former family 'cottage' buildings were adapted as bedroom accommodation. A new dining and classroom block was built including this 12-sided lecture hall - later named the David Robinson Hall after the long-serving College Governor and tutor.

February 2010

Attached Sunday School to the rear of the chapel.

DB 18 July 2019

Date stone on the attached Sunday School reads :-

"INDEPENDENT

SUNDAY SCHOOL 

1825"

and underneath 

"REBUILT 1874" 

DB 18 July 2019

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, West Street, Horncastle.

In 1908 the school moved to West Street a short while after the first admission of girls.

February 2010

The National School in Manor House Street, Horncastle, was founded in 1814 and is now the Community Centre for the town.

This was a Church of England establishment, close to the parish church and with the head teacher's house attached.

The original building was enlarged and a separate classroom built for boys.

Pearl Wheatley, 2010

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is known to have existed in the 14th century when, no doubt, it would be in the church of St. Mary.

At its refounding in 1571 a new school was built south of the church.

In 1778 this was replaced close by with a new building which still survives.

Ken Redmore, 2010

Wesleyan Methodist School, 1859, Foundry Street, Horncastle. It is now a garage.

Methodists supported the British School until they decided to educate their own children.

The premises were formerly a foundry and they were adapted for a general classroom, an infants' room and a playground.

Pearl Wheatley, 2010

Shown as a school on the OS 25 inch map published 1906 possibly associated with the small New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian church just round the corner in Croft Street.

DB 18 July 2019

Watson's Free Infant School was founded by Richard Watson, son of a wealthy tanner, in 1786.

The school is in West Street (formerly Tanner Street), Horncastle.

It is now the headquarters of the Horncastle Photographic Society.

February 2010

Wesleyan Methodist School, Cagthorpe, was built in 1905 after the Foundry Street premises were condemned.

It became the secondary modern school for the town after the second world war until it was replaced in the 1960s by the Banovallum School on Boston Road.

(It now houses the town youth club.)

Pearl Wheatley, 2010

Old school viewed from All Saints churchyard. 

"School and schoolhouse attached to south. 1867"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308909 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1905 states "Public Elementary School (mxed); average attendance 99; Edward Aspinall Armitage, master; Mrs. D.Armitage, infants' mistress"

DB 26 June 2018

The school was built as a National School in 1840 and enlarged in 1874. It was known as Huttoft CE School by 1914.

The school was transferred to Lindsey County Council as Huttoft Council School c.1922, and became Huttoft County Primary School in 1947.

More recently it became a Grant Maintained School, known as Huttoft Primary (GM) School, and has been known by its present name since September 1999.

September 2018

The village primary school on the Green was opened in 1878.

Extensions in the 1980s provided a hall for both school and community use.

drawing by Tom Brooker, 1969

"School and attached school house. 1851, C20 ... Single storey school with 2 storey school house ... tall, ornate bell turret"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063356 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states "The school was built in 1851, by subscription"

however  

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1878, at a cost of £1,700, for 100 children; Job Bird, master"

DB 14 June 2020

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1880, at a cost of £1,000, for 105 children; Edgar Sykes, master; Mrs. Sykes, mistress; Arthur Musson, attendance officer"

Is now Ingoldsby Academy (in Lenton Road)

http://www.ingoldsbyacademy.co.uk/content/about-us 

DB 18 February 2019

Built as a National School with two classrooms in 1860 it later became a CE controlled primary school.

Extensions were added in 2004 and 2011.

October 2011

A grammar school was founded in the town in 1517

June 2013

This school near the church was built for 156 infants in 1895-96.

June 2013

Date stone from a former Sunday School displayed outside the Church Hall.

DB 7 March 2020 

Part of former school now a private house. Modern school buildings are located further to the west along Cooper lane.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Stanford's Charity School, founded in 1712 by Philip Stanford for the parishes of Laceby, Bradley & Barnoldby-le-Beck, & endowed by him with a house & certain lands ;

the estate now consists of a farmhouse & 74 acres of land, producing an annual income of £122 5s. of which a sum of £7 I0s. is left to charities other than for school purposes;

the school will hold 258 chlidren; Albert Dossor, master; Miss Eliza Ann Bodkin, infants' mistress"

DB 7 March 2020

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary school built in 1857 for 130 children ; James Davies, master; Miss E. M. Colam & Miss E. S. Davis, assistant mistresses"

DB 25 March 2019

Former school now a private house. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1863, at a cost of £300, for 120 children; Isaac Househam, master"

Isaac Househam also listed as hon. sec. of the Reading Room.

DB 29 June 2019

Date stone reads

"LEGBOURNE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL. 1863" 

DB 29 June 2019

Legsby Old School was built in 1849 at the expense of Sir John Nelthorpe.

Though replaced by a new Council school in 1911 the building continued to be used as an overflow classroom until the late 1960s.

Locals are now trying to convert it into a community centre.

Mark Acton, 2014

This impressive building is on Monks Road close to the junction with Broadgate.

It was built in 1885-86 by Cowen and Lansdown of Lincoln to the award-winning design of George Sedger of London. It is said to be in Dutch Renaissance style.

March 2018

The Robert Hardy Building, a block of teaching rooms, was opened in 2010. It is named after the former Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Hardy (1987-2001).

September 2013

Part of an illuminated banner which depicts the original building of c1862.

The college was established as a teacher training school by the Church of England.

The original chapel, shown here in the foreground, remains in use today.

Ken Redmore 2012

Constance Stewart Hall is the largest residential block at Bishop Grosseteste University.

It has over 100 bedrooms and is also a good self-contained base for small conferences.

It was built in the 1930s and has several strong Art Deco features.

It is named after a former principal of the college.

Ken Redmore, 2012

"Former County Hospital, now a theological college. 1776-77, by John Carr of York and William Lumby. Chapel 1906, by Temple Moore"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388510 

Recently converted into private accommodation 

DB 20 January 2020

This fine red brick building with terracotta decoration was designed by William Watkins and opened as a high school for girls in 1893.

September 2017

The City School - a grammar school for boys - had occupied an awkward cramped site on Monks Road.

The City adopted a comprehensive scheme of secondary education and built this co-educational upper school (for 12 -18 year-olds) on Skellingthorpe Road in the south-west of the city.

The school was designed by the City Architect; the initial number on roll was 690 pupils.It became a mixed comprehensive school in 1974 (shown here) following amalgamation with the Sincil Secondary Modern School.

The main block facing Skellingthorpe Road has been rebuilt since 2010.

Built as Lincoln School (a grammar school for boys) in 1905 by Leonard Stokes.

It became a mixed comprehensive school in 1974 following the reorganisation of secondary education in the city.

The 4th Northern General Hospital was set up in Lincoln School on Wragby Road at the beginning of World War I in August 1914.

By early October, the hospital cared for over 200 wounded Belgian soldiers. Many of the wards were in wooden buildings which had been quickly erected on the school playing field.

The school itself was housed in temporary classrooms at the junction of St Anne's Road and Sewell Road.

Undated postcard

This building, now the Castle Hotel on Westgate, was erected in 1851-52 by W A Nicholson as the North District National Schools.

October 2017

This impressive building was erected in 1859 (architects Bellamy and Hardy of Lincoln) and extended to the rear later in the nineteenth century. It was opened as a Wesleyan Methodist Day School.

This former school is now disused and partly demolished to the rear.

March 2018

School located at the east end of Smith Street.

"The school opened in 1913 as Sincil Bank Council School.

It was re-organised in May 1920, with the splitting of the Mixed Seniors into separate Boys' and Girls' departments.

The Boys' department later became Sincil County Secondary for Boys. This closed in 1937, with the boys transferred to The City School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/LINCOLN-SINCIL-SECONDARY-MODERN-BOYS--SCHOOL/1072588.record?pt=S 

Ruddock's Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919 has an entry "SINCIL BANK COUNCIL - T. H. Prescott (mixed); Miss C. E. Hughes (infants)". 

DB 16 June 2019

The school opened in 1913 as Sincil Bank Council School.

Now Springwell Lincoln City Academy with a capacity of 252 pupils. Headteacher listed as Mr David Whitaker. Academy alternative provision sponsor led.

https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/144016 

DB 16 June 2019

The OS 25 inch map published 1907 has schools (plural) marked here also "St Leonard's Ch. (site of)".

Ruddock's Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919 has two schools listed :-

"Miss COOKSON's GIRLS' SCHOOL, Greetwellgate Miss S. Brown"

"EASTGATE INFANTS Miss M. Russell"

This image seems to be of what was the girls school. School is listed and Historic England has further information :-

"Formerly known as: Eastgate Primary School GREETWELL GATE. School with attached teacher's house and boundary wall. Founded 1850 by a Miss Cookson, rebuilt 1881-82 by William Watkins of Lincoln"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388557 

DB 7 August 2020

Former Sunday School / Church Hall now an RSPCA Shop in St Mark's Street.

In the 1901 City Directory published by J.W.Ruddock it is described as :-

"St. Mark's Day School-Miss Jackson. head-mistress"

and in the 1919 City Directory as :-

"St. Mark's Sunday School"

DB 30 July 2019

Listed in the Ruddock's Directory of Lincoln 1919 on the corner of Bargate and Craven Street :-

"St. Botolph's Girls' School - Miss E. A. Pepperdine, mistress"

Now private accommodation. 

DB 2 July 2019

Built as Little Hale National School; closed 1969.

June 2017

"Former school and school house, now house. 1832, minor C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062314 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built by subscription in 1832 & enlarged in 1884, for 56 children; Miss Alice Mary Morley, mistress"

DB 24 April 2019

Date stone reads "1832".

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The school, with a house for the teacher, was built in 1832, by the Rev. Dr. Dowdiswell, the late lord of the manor"

also

"Watchorne Eliz. schoolmistress"

DB 24 April 2019

The former village school was opened in 1871 and despite declining numbers in the 1930s continued in operation until 1963. It then closed and remaining pupils were transferred to Great Steeping. It is presently in use as the Village Hall.

Jean Howard 20 August 2023

The school bell hung within this housing above the half-hipped roof.

Jean Howard 20 August 2023

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary-School (mixed), built in 1851 enlarged in 1876, for 57 children, & supported by Earl Brownlow; Mrs. Robinson, mistress"

Former school now a private house. 

DB 25 March 2019

In 1551 Edward VI gave a plot of land and the money from three fairs to establish the school. It remained boys only until 1964.

Undated postcard.

Former pupils include Sir John Franklin, Captain John Smith and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Undated postcard.

"The school building now known as The Studio, Schoolhouse Lane, Louth ...

In 1864, the Trustees of the King Edward VI Grammar School applied to the Charity Commissioners to demolish the old school and build a new one. The Commissioners allowed for limited expenditure, boosted by public subscription, and James Fowler submitted his plans for the new school building and Bedeshouses at the corner of Schoolhouse Lane and Gospelgate as a single design.

The completed buildings which cost about £3000 were opened by Bishop Christopher Wordsworth on 6th August 1869"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1415550?section=official-list-entry 

DB 30 April 2022

National School erected 1853, enlarged 1874.

July 2011

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Council School (mixed), rebuilt in 1906 at a cost of £1,500, with master's residence, to hold 194 children; George V. Hooton, master ; Mrs. G. V. Hooton, assistant mistress"

DB 29 June 2019 

The original National School was erected 1840 and later enlarged for 140 pupils in 1880. There were extensions and refurbishment in the 1980s.

April 2016

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 has an entry for public elementary shools :-

Green (girls & infants), built in 1851, from funds bequeathed by Mrs. Mary Wensor, daughter of George & Sarah Allison, & endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Molecey in 1844, with £200 Consols, it will hold 100 children; Miss Matilda Waight, mistress"

The Church Guide states that Revd. William Hildyard, Rector 1829 - 1875 was :-

"A keen educationalist, he gave the land and, in 1851,helped to build the "Green Coat School" for girls (who for a time wore green cloaks).

The "Green School" is now the Church Hall, and the local Church of England Primary School bears Revd. Hildyard's name"

http://lincoln.ourchurchweb.org.uk/marketdeeping/docstore/265.pdf 

DB 7 September 2019

Square panel above the central windows with an inscription reading

"Erected A.D. MDCCCLI

For the use of the Green School from funds bequeathed for charitable purposes within this Parish by Mrs. Mary Wensor, Daughter of George & Sarah Allison"

DB 7 September 2019

To the left No's 62 & 64 "Former school, now house. 1819"

Panel is inscribed "Erected by the Feofees of Market Deeping Charity Estates A.D. 1819" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360205 

To the right No. 60 "Former school house, now house. 1821, restored 1972"

Panel is inscribed "Erected Anno Domini 1821"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062625 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 has an entry for public elementary shools :-

"Endowed (boys), Church street, erected by the trusteee in 1819; the school will hold 70 children; average attendance, 54; Thomas Robert Kay, head teacher"

DB 7 September 2019 

The original school building here, designed by James Fowler of Louth, was built in 1860 for £5000.

In 1876 there were 40 boys on roll, of whom 15 were boarders.

postcard published by C Fieldhouse of Market Rasen, 1906

Undated postcard.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The de Aston Grammar School, situated on the Willingham road, now a secondary 'school under the Board of Education, was erected in 1862 from designs by Mr. James Fowler, at a cost of £5,000.

The income which is partly devoted to the maintenance of the "Spital" charity, is derived from land at Hemswell left in 1401 by Thomas de Aston, archdeacon of Stow;

in 1904 new class rooms & dormitories were added, the gymnasium completed & other improvements made, & in 1908 a new laboratory was built for chemistry & physics;

there are 130 boys in the school, of whom 71 are boarders;

there are several entrance scholarships covering the cost of tuition, books &c. & a leaving exhibition of £50 a year tenable for three years at a University or some other place of higher education;

the school is managed by a body of 17 governors; The Right Hon. Lord Heneage, chairman; Percy John Timms B.Sc.Lond. head master; there are five resident assistant masters"

School building which the diocesan website suggests may have been built around 1859. 

http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Nottingham/Market-Rasen-Holy-Roodhttp://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Nottingham/Market-Rasen-Holy-Rood 

DB 8 April 2019

Dame Margaret Thorold founded a school in the village in 1716 in memory of her husband Sir John Thorold.

The present school - Thorold's Charity C of E School - was built in 1861 and has been extended twice in the twenty-first century.

It was Grade II listed in 1984.

March 2016

Thorold's Charity Church of England Primary School with the Thorold coat of arms at the front. 

"Each stack has moulded ashlar panel, that to the north-west with coat of arms and inscribed 'Cervus non Servus A.D.1861""

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062856 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states "Lady Thorold's School, erected in 1861 by the trustees of the charity, & enlarged in 1874; it will hold 192 children; average attendance, 96: the school is supported by a yearly endowment of £120, a Government grant, & school fees; William Handcock, master; Mrs. Frances H. Handcock, mistress"

DB 29 May 2020 

Kelley's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 states :-

"A school was founded and endowed with £65 yearly by Mrs. Mary King, in 1753 for the free education of certain poor children, to be nominated by the vicar of Timberland : it was enlarged in 1874 by the Rev. J.W. King"

DB 9 June 2018

Inscription states that the school was rebuilt in 1842.

Subsequently enlarged by Rev. John William King in 1874. 

DB 9 June 2018 

Immediately adjoining the southern edge of the churchyard is the former infant school, older children attending the school at Raithby by Spilsby.

The older part of the building features diaper work in dark brick.

This is one of a number of village additions, thanks to the efforts of the Revd George Ward.

Jean Howard, September 2023

Former school house now a private house.

Kelly's Directory 1919 states "Village (mixed & infants), erected in 1840 as a reading room & afterwards purchased by Viscount Chaplin & presented to the vicar & churchwardens, who are sole trustees ; it has since been enlarged and will hold 230 children; Joseph Bean, master; Miss Caudwell, infants' mistress"

DB 1 June 2020 

Ashlar plaque facing High Street.

DB 25 May 2020

"MORTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL 

The Stone Tablet on the West wall of the Nave came from the Morton County Primary School on the site of which the new Co-operative Store was erected and opened on the 21st of May 2001. 

The Tablet Re-sited from Morton C.P. School on the demolition of the building was re-dedicated by Rev. Canon John Eastgate. 22nd July 2001"

DB 15 May 2022

"Harrox House. Late C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064506

"Moulton Grammar School was founded through an endowment given in the will of John Harrox (died 1561) who was steward to Sir John Harrington of Weston.

The School opened in 1562 with ten pupils and continued to educate boys until 1939 when it merged with Spalding Grammar School.

Some school buildings still exist but are now private residences"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulton,_Lincolnshire 

DB 28 April 2019

"Harrox House Site of Moulton Grammar School (1562-1939) Founded by John Harrox (died 1561)"

DB 28 April 2019

The Old School at Nettleham, founded in 1856 as a National School, is now used for community purposes.

It comprised one hall which could be divided for classrooms, and one smaller classroom (now a kitchen).

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

This is one of the relatively few Voluntary Joint Controlled Church of England and Methodist primary schools in the County.

February 2018

White's Directory 1872 records :- 

"The poor parishioners have the interest of £50, left by several donors, and the lord of the manor and W. E. W elby, Esq., pay £20 annually towards the education of poor children belonging to this and the parishes of Haceby, Braceby and Sapperton. The School, for the joint use of these parishes, was erected here in 1842, and is attended by about 40 children of both sexes"

Also "Briggs Robert, National schoolmastr"

DB 24 February 2022

"Village School. 1869. Designed by Sir G G Scott ...

Two storey masters house, with splayed bay window"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360559 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Council School (mixed), erected in 1869, for 100 children; Charles F. Eminson, master"

Now Nocton Community Primary School. 

DB 7 December 2019

This small brick building, with its 'ecclesiastical' pointed arched windows, is close to the west end of St Peter's parish church. It is marked as 'Sunday School' on both First and Second Editions of the Ordnance Survey County Series maps of 1887 and 1905.

It is apparent that it had recently been renovated.

The school and school house at Normanby by Spital are in Main Street.

The inscription above a window notes the school was built in 1878 for £1,400, but it was not opened until March 1879.

The ventilator in the roof was to let out the fumes from the stove.

The previous school was on land given by Mrs. Mary Dunn, widow of the rector.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Former school closed in 2005. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), erected by the lord of the manor in 1866, at a cost of £800, for 110 children; Thomas Edward Smith, master

The School is under the management of six members; Joseph Torey, correspondent"

DB 25 January 2020 

Detail of the date stone "ERECTED A.D. 1866" 

" A fire destroyed the wooden buildings which housed the junior and senior classes on 20 May 1952.

The school survived a closure attempt in 2004 but was closed on 31 August 2005"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/NORTH-KYME-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/899245.record?pt=S 

DB 25 January 2020 

Kesteven County Council opened this secondary school in 1953. It is named for Sir Robert Pattinson, Chairman of KCC for 20 years and Liberal MP for Grantham in the early 1920s.

The school is now (2019) named the Sir Robert Pattinson Academy.

White's Directory 1872 states " The school for North and South Rauceby was built in 1842, at the cost of the Marquis of Bristol, the late A. Willson, Esq., and the then vicar, the Rev. Edward Trollope".

Kelly's Directory 1919 has "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1842, for 116 children; William Henry Baily, master".

Situated midway between North and South Rauceby.

DB 2020

There was an endowed school in the village for many years. In 1840 or 1841 this National School was built.

It closed in 1974 with children transferring to the Gregory Croft CE (Aided) Primary School in East Kirkby.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in, 1844, for 50 children; Miss Maud Josey, mistress"

White's Directory 1856 states "Somerby school was built by subscription in 1845"

School closed 1971 with the pupils transferred to Ropsley. 

DB 2 March 2020 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states "School (mixed), built in 1845, by Sir Thomas Whichcote bart; for 180 children; with an average attendance of 120; Thomas H. Crosdil, master ; infants, Miss Ellen Hobson mistress"

Now the Prelude Day Nursery.

DB 8 August 2020

Sir Thomas Whichcote's initials above the main entrance.

DB 8 August 2020

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The parish school was rebuilt in 1842, and has room for 150 children. The master has a yearly rent-charge of £5, left by Joseph Noddel, but the school is supported chiefly by subscription and partly by the children's pence"

In 1919 Kelly's Directory states :

"Owston (mixed), for 230 children; L. W. Newby Stubbs, master; Miss Roberts, infants' mistress"

Now a private house - a new primary school was built in 1966.

DB 21 August 2018

The core of this building was originally a National School erected in 1863. With modern extensions and additions it is today's St Gilbert of Sempringham CE Primary School.

October 2017

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built about 1856 & enlarged in 1910, for 100 children; Frank Clarke, mast"

The Church Guide states :-

"The foundation stone of the school was laid by Sir John Tuffnell on Wednesday August 15th 1855.

According to the Stamford Mercury " the Ceremony was imbued with a lively character by the music of the Metheringham Brass Band.

Master Harry Chaplin rode over on his pony."

Now "Potterhanworth, Church of England Primary School". 

DB 14 February 2019

"Gateway to former school. 1840 for Duke of St Albans Estate. Limestone ashlar. Pedestrian gateway with plinth, chamfered 4-centred arch with hood- mould beneath coped gable. C20 inscribed name tablet to left"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1162297?section=official-list-entry 

Kelly's Directory 1913 has " Public Elementary (Endowed) School (mixed), built at the cost of the 10th Duke of St. Albans, in 1840, & enlarged in 1891, for 62 children; average attendance, 42; Mrs. Mary Ellis, mistress; children attending this school are eligible, if duly qualified, as candidates for exhibitions connected with Kirton-in-Lindsey school"

DB 11 November 2023

Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in 1856, for 130 children; it has a small endowment of £5 a year; in 1899 new class & cloak rooms & offices were erected; Whalley Robinson, master; Mrs. Edith Williamson, infants' mistress"

Reported by BBC on 6 April 2007 that :-

"Education officials have said a Lincolnshire village school is likely to close because parents have chosen to send their children elsewhere.

The county council said it will be forced to close Rippingale Primary School near Bourne after a consultation period if enrolment remains low.

The authority said parents choosing to send their children to other schools had led to this situation.

There are 120 children living nearby, but only 20 are attending the school"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6532575.stm 

Rippingale Church of England Primary School closed 31st August 2007.

DB 31 August 2020

Detail of the date stone.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1872 states "The School is endowed with two yearly rent-charges, viz., £5 left by Sir Richard Brownlow, and £3 left by John Lister, Esq. Both of them are charged on Lord Aveland's estate.

A new School was built in 1856, in the Tudor style, by the late Lord Aveland, at an outlay of £400, and is attended by 80 children of both sexes"

The coat of arms appears to be that of Gilbert John Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland who was a Whig politician.

DB 31 August 2020

Riseholme Hall, here viewed from the north, was built by the Chaplin family in 1744.

Purchased by the Church Commissioners in 1840, the Hall was restyled by the architect William Rainton and until the late nineteenth century was the Palace of the Bishop of Lincoln.

After World War 2, the Hall and estate became an agricultural college, now a Campus of the University of Lincoln.

In July 2012, the Further Education provision at Riseholme College transferred to Bishop Burton College.

See: www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/riseholmecollege/ourcampus/history

This distinctive octagonal hall was built when Lindsey College of Agriculture was established on the site of the former Bishop's Palace site in Riseholme in 1966.

May 2012

Kelly's Directory 1905 states " Public Elementary (Endowed) School (mixed & infants) erected in 1874, at a cost of £760, for 147 children, & enlarged in 1894, for 90 infants, at a cost of upwards of £400; average attendance, 143; the school has an endowment of £12 a year; William Dale, master; Mrs. Dale, mistress".

DB 2020

The school was built in 1856 and enlarged in 1895. It closed in July 1981.

April 2017

"School. 1852. Red brick with ashlar dressings"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205521 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"A charity of £42 10s. yearly, left in 1719 by Anne (Thorold) Lady Hodgson, of Rowston, and widow of Sir Thomas Hodgson, is now applied to the provision of scholarships to higher elementary schools, tenable by scholars from Ruskington and Rowston, and to the maintenance, clothing and provision of fuel for three poor widows ...

Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1852, & partly supported by the charity mentioned above, for 50 children; Mrs. Kate White, mistress"

DB 19 March 2020

Ashlar plaque inscribed "National School MDCCCLII"

DB 19 March 2020

Victorian post box set into wall of the Old School

DB 19 March 2020

The National School was built in Roxby in 1867 by Valentine Carey-Elwes.

April 2015

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Council (infants), erected in 1880, for 140 children (infants & standard I); Miss Mary Elizabeth Cunnington, mistress"

Now Ruskington Youth Centre.

DB 21 August 2019

Now the home of the Parish Office & Winchelsea Centre.

A former school. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Non-Provided (mixed), built with master's house, by public subscription, in 1868, at a cost of £1,000, on a site given by the Dowager Countess of Winchilsea; it will hold 120 children; Charles Beattie, master"

DB 21 August 2019

Former infants school now a private house. 

"A mixed National School was built in 1845 and an Infants' School built in 1871, together known as Saxilby National School in 1903.

The Infants' School and the Mixed or Upper School were managed by the same board of Managers, and were referred to as Departments in HMI reports by the 1920s.

Senior pupils were transferred to Sturton-by-Stow Secondary School in July 1961, and the Senior School was subsequently referred to as the Junior School.

The Junior and Infants' Schools were amalgamated under a single headmaster in 1962, although initially retaining the two buildings.

New school buildings were planned in the late 1960s"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplaySearchResults.aspx?oid=645107&mode=c&pageNo=6 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"Infants' built in 187I, for 80 children; Miss Lilian Lumb, mistress"

DB 19 June 2018 

The entry in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 reads "Mixed, erected in 1845, for 150 children, & enlarged in 1888, for 190; Henry Brunt, master"

Now Sunflowers Nursery School.

DB 17 May 2020

"NATIONAL SCHOOL ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS AIDED BY GRANTS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL

ANNO. DOM. MMCCCXLV"

DB 17 May 2020

The school was built in 1875 and was known as Scampton CE School by 1903.

In contrast to many nineteenth century primary schools where former schoolhouses have been converted to school accommodation, the attached schoolhouse to the west (left) is privately owned and occupied.

May 2018

Former school now a private house - currently for sale with offers requested in excess of £400,000.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), erected on the site of a former building, & endowed with £40 yearly, from the proceeds of land left by Richard Nelthorpe esq. in 1706, was enlarged in 1890, & will now hold 160 children; in 1901 an infants' school was built to hold 90; John Whitaker, master; Miss Mabel Bell, infants mistr"

The infants school was directly opposite on the other side of Church Street. 

DB 14 June 2019

Former village school, near the corner of Vicarage Lane and Main Street, appears to have been incorporated as part of the Limes Care Home.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1866, on a site given by Viscount Chaplin, for the parishes of Scopwick & Kirkby Green ; it will hold 90 children ; Arthur Breeze, master"

"New buildings were opened, and the old buildings renovated in 1966. The school was closed on 19 December 1980"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/SCOPWICK-CE-SCHOOL/717525.record?pt=S 

DB 28 January 2019 

Former school now a community hub.

White's Directory 1856 notes "The National School was built in 1834, at the cost of £300, of which £100 was given by the rector, £100 by the National Society, and £100 was raised by subscription. It is  attended by about 130 children. A house was built for the schoolmaster in 1846, at the cost of £150"

DB 18 April 2024

Text on the west side of the former school. 

"Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is CHRIST JESUS 

1 Cor. Chap.3 v.11

AD 1834"

DB 18 April 2024

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :- 

"The School was built on the site of the old Vicarage House, in 1855" 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"National (Non-provided) School (mixed), built in 1854 at a cost of £200, is now closed & the children attend the school at Grasby"

Now a private house. 

DB 19 May 2019

Grammar School and Public Elementary School.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"Sedgebrook Grammar School, erected in 1882, with master's house, by the Thorold charity trustees, at a cost of £1,500; the school is the district centre for County Council scholars from Kesteven & Leicestershire (Junior & intermediate) ; this school is now a Secondary school taking the special advanced course of the Board of Education, and is controlled by 12 governors; Sir J. H. Thorold bart. chairman; in 1908 there were 75 boys: Frank Upton M.A. headmaster; G. W. Preston B. A., T. J. Stokes, Rev. Thomas Cranmer Ewbank M.A. (manual instructor), J. A. Pocock (art) & H. Stevenson F.I.C. assistant masters

Public Elementary School, erected in 1875, by the trustees of Lady Thorold's charity (see Marston), at a cost of about £500, for 70 children; Mrs. A. Coupland, mistress"

Old Grammar School is the further building. 

DB 6 February 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Free, rebuilt in 1869, & endowed with 48a. 16r. of land, inclosed from the waste, & now let for £110 a year; the school is managed by trustees, representatives of the County Council & Parish Council; Richard J. Slater, correspondent; it will hold about 200 children; John Forshaw, master"

Now Sibsey Free Primary School. 

DB 3 August 2019

Former school now the Village Hall.

White's Directory 1872 reads "Here is a School, erected in 1859, by voluntary subscription" and "Money Mrs Amelia, schoolmistress".

Kelly's Directory 1919 has "Public Elementary School (mixed), for 40 children; Miss Ada Hare; mistress".

Date stone over the entrance reads "AD 1858".

School closed in 1971.

DB 20 August 2018

Former school now Hunters Estate and Letting Agents.

"Hunters Turner Evans Stevens in Skegness has its origins dating back around 100 years and it has been trading from the current office since 1959"

https://www.hunters.com/about-us/offices/skegness 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1899 states :-

"National Endowed School, Roman Bank (mixed), built in 1880, at a cost of £1,500, for 250 children; average attendance, 174:

the school has an endowment of £20 yearly, left in 1860 by William Everington esq. of London; Abraham Porter, master"

DB 30 October 2019

Viewed from St Lawrence's Churchyard. 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states "A new School was built in 1856, and is supported partly by grants from Christ's and Spittal Hospitals"

Kelly's Directory 1919 states "Public Elementary (Endowed) School (mixed), built with master's house, in 1856; enlarged in 1899; the endowment comprises £50 yearly from the Spital Hospital; the school will hold 150 children; Richard Hatton Brooks, master".

DB 2020

Carre's Grammar School was founded by local landowner Sir Robert Carre in 1603.

It first occupied its present site on Northgate in 1835 and new buildings were opened in 1904.

This is now a selective secondary school with special status as a Science and Sports College.

Undated postcard

"1834 rebuild by Charles Kirk of school founded in C16. Tudor Gothic style"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360430 

DB 27 August 2019

View from Jermyn Street. 

"Schoolroom annexe to Kesteven and Sleaford High School ... Office building now annexe. c1870 with later addition. Probably by Kirk and Parry of Sleaford ...

Kirk and Parry of Jermyn Street are listed in directories from the mid C19. William Kirk of Nottingham (1749-1823) was followed in the profession by his son and grandson (both named Charles) as Kirk and Son or in-association with Parry.

Kirk and-Parry also had a flour mill off Jermyn Street but this particular building may have served as the office for their architectural work"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261296

DB 27 August 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Alvey's Endowed & National, Eastgate (boys, girls & infants), was founded under the will of William Alvey esq. dated 26th August, 1726, who bequeathed a freehold estate of 53 acres, at Fishtoft, to the vicar of Sleaford for the time being & six other trustees, upon trust to apply £20 yearly "in teaching the poor children of Sleaford to read, write, sew & knit":

& £8 yearly to the vicar & churchwardens of Balderton upon a like trust for the poor children of Balderton :

the remainder to be divided in the proportion of two-thirds to Sleaford & one third to Balderton:

the income of the charity is now (1918) about £90 yearly; new schools, together with a master's house, were erected in 1851, at a cost of £800, on ground given by the Marquess of Bristol & the present infants' school was built in 1888; the united schools will hold 400 children ; average attendance, 160 boys, 140 girls & 50 infants ; George Colborn Bartlett, master; Miss Mary W. Beavis, mistress; Miss Margaret Waters, infants' mistress"

DB 23 February 2019

School renovated in 2018.

DB 23 February 2019

The school erected in 1876 to serve the villages of South Carlton and Burton was a National School replacing the Monson Free School founded in 1678 by Sir John Monson.

It is Grade II listed.

October 2016

White's Directory 1872 has :-

"The Monson School, built by John Monson, Esq., who endowed it in 1678 with £200, now vested in a rent-charge of £10 per annum, out of land at Croft ... is to be considerably enlarged by Lord Monson, and will then have accommodation for 80 children.

A rent-charge of £12. 12s. on land in the parish of Newton-on-Trent is now paid towards the support of this school.

The master teaches about 50 free scholars belonging to the three parishes of North and South Carlton and Burton"

Also

"Davies Thomas James & Mrs Ann, master & mistress, Monson school"

DB 10 May 2022

"To right of front a stone inscribed 'Monson Free School founded 1678 by Sir John Monson', with arms over"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147310?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 May 2022

"SOUTH ELKINGTON C.E. SCHOOL HONOURS BOARD"

Presumably transferred from the former school. Located adjacent to the tower arch.

DB 19 March 2023

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

This substantial house for the schoolmaster appears to be contemporary with the school next door. The imposing twisted chimney looks original.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

White's Directory 1872 notes "In 1870 a neat School was erected, at an expense of £400, and is attended by over 20 children"

Also "Lawrence Miss Harriet, National schoolmistress".

Now the South Hykeham Community Primary School.

DB 17 March 2024

Built as a National School 1858 and known as South Ormsby cum Ketsby Church School in the early 20th century.

The school closed in July 1974 with pupils transferring to Tetford.

September 2015

"The school was founded in 1588 by Royal Charter, applied for by a Rev. Johnson, and within part of Spalding Parish Church, called St Thomas's Chapel, until the 19th century.

It was founded on its current site in 1881"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding_Grammar_School 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Free Grammar School, Priory road, founded in 1588 by Sir John Gamlyn, was removed to its present site in 1881;

the buildings, constructed of red brick, faced with Ancaster stone, in the Queen Anne style, surround a courtyard, the master's house occupying the south & west fronts;

the school has a yearly endowment of £280, out of which the governors have to provide for the management of the Willesby School;

£30 a year is given for scholarships from the Willesby School & £30 for scholarships at all the Elementary schools, all these being tenable at the Grammar school;

a large chemistry laboratory, costing about £800, & an art room have been recently added;

the school is now a Secondary School under the Board of Education, & is controlled by 14 governors"

DB 2 October 2019

Founded in the reign of Edward VI, the first buildings on this site were erected in 1611.

On the right is an extension dated 1914.

September 2011

School built 1870 by the rector of the parish and closed in 1945.

July 2011

A National School built for the children of Stainby and Gunby in 1840, it later became Stainby Council School, then Stainby County School.

The school closed in 1971.

March 2017

The National School, later Church of England Controlled Primary School, opened in 1817 and closed in April 1971. It now serves as the village hall.

May 2018

Stamford School was founded in 1309 and established on the present site in 1548.

New buildings were erected in 1873 at a cost of £7000.

March 2016

The school was built 1867 as a National School and closed 1984.

White's Directory 1872 has an entry "Clay Miss My. Ann, Natnl. schoolmrs"

And in 1905 Kelly's Directory has "Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1867, for 50 children; average attendance, 39; Miss Sarah Temperton, mistress".

DB 2020

The school opened as a National School in 1846, and later became a Board School administered by the Stickford Board School, formed on 20 September 1872.

May 2018

The village primary school was transferred to Lindsey County Council in 1903 as Stickford Council School, and became a Stickford County School, c1947.

The school was reorganised in the Summer of 1949, with senior pupils transferred to the Stickney Secondary Modern School.

The school was closed on 18 July 1987,

May 2018

Stickney Church of England Primary School is in a prominent position in the village at the corner of Main Road (A16) and Hall Lane.

May 2018

National School built 1851 with attached teacher's house.

August 2011

"Former school and school house, now house. 1840. By William Burn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1306993 

DB 17 May 2018 

Jean Howard, 23 July 2021 

"Plaque attached to south front inscribed "This house was erected by Robert and Amelia Heron in the years 1813 and 1814.

"Jeffery Wyatt, Architect""

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146985 

From 1952 to 2003 the house became a school for children with learning difficulties or behavioural problems. 

First known as Stubton Hall Boarding Special (ESN) School, then as Stubton Hall Boarding School and finally Stubton Hall School.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/STUBTON-HALL-SCHOOL/886671.record?pt=S 

It is now a hotel and wedding venue.

https://www.stubtonhall.co.uk 

DB 24 September 2018

Stone from Subton School re-sited in the churchyard wall.

Kelley's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 states that Miss Birch was mistress of the National School. 

"G.N." is presumably George Nevil J.P. of Stubton Hall

DB 28 August 2018

Former school now a private house.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School, Susworth, built in 1904, for 52 children; Miss Frewin. mistress"

DB 18 June 2019 

The school was built in 1859. Senior pupils were transferred to schools in Sleaford by 1953.

The school was closed on 18 February 1971, with the pupils transferred to Osbournby County School.

April 2018

"School House. Early 19C"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061971 

DB 10 September 2018

The church primary school was built in 1849. The first mistress was Miss Edwards.

August 2016

Former school now the village hall.

"The school originally opened in 1841.

New buildings were erected in 1868, and it became Tallington Parochial Church of England School in October 1869.

In September 1884 it became Tallington Board School, administered by Tallington School Board, formed in that year.

The school was enlarged in 1896.

It became Tallington Council School in 1903 and was a junior school by 1938, with senior pupils attending schools in Stamford.

The school became Tallington County School in the late 1940s and by 1975 it was known as Tallington County Primary School.

The school was closed in 1980, with the children transferred to Uffington School from September"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/TALLINGTON-COUNTY-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/886510.record?pt=S 

DB 17 November 2018 

"Former college, later converted to a brewery and stores, now a ruin, restored C20. Founded by Ralph, Lord Cromwell, c.1440"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1287800 

Probably used as a school for choristers at the collegiate church.

"The oldest grammar school building in Lincolnshire" 

DB 5 April 2018

"Former school and schoolmaster's house. 1860-62, with minor C20 alterations. Designed by William Butterfield"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1390624 

DB 5 April 2018 

The first school at Tealby was erected by Charles Tennyson-d'Eyncourt in 1857/8 and was rebuilt in fine style after a fire in 1889. It was then known as the d'Eyncourt School until the First World War.

July 2017

School room attached to St John's Church now in use as the Church Hall.

Kelly's Directory 1905 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1873, for 45 children; average attendance, 19; Miss Florence Annie Hogarth, mistress".

DB 26 August 2018

A modern replacement for the 1821 National School which is now a private house.

"The Edward Richardson Community Primary School was founded through a 1714 bequest from Edward Richardson of a cottage and about 7 acres (28,000 m2) of land towards teaching the poor children of Tetford and Salmonby. In 1821 a National School was built and enlarged in 1897 and 1899"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetford 

DB 18 January 2020 

Inscription reads "1821 NATIONAL SCHOOL".

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1821 & enlarged in 1897 & 1899, for 140 children; Richard Luck, master"

Now a private house. 

DB 18 January 2020

The present Village Hall in Thimbleby was built as a National School in 1857.

It is built in red brick and has a gabled porch. The schoolmaster's house is attached to the right of the schoolroom.

April 2016

St Michael's Church of England Primary School - this appears to be a new build with older OS maps showing the school at the opposite end of School Lane.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), for 75 children; Mrs. Sarah E. Delmar, mistress"

and in 1885 :-

"National School. for 75 children; average attendance, 41"

The village Character Assessment states :-

"East of Cedar House, which stands on Lincoln Lane (No.18), is Thorpe's original Schoolhouse (Nos. 1 & 2 School Lane), opened in 1899 to replace the original village schoolhouse that had been located in the north-eastern corner of St Michael's churchyard since 1843" 

https://www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=47780 

DB 21 February 2019

Former school now two private houses.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1905 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), for 75 children; average yearly attendance, 54; Miss Annie Outram, mistress"

DB 30 May 2019

School and School House on the right.

"The school was built in 1840 and was connected to the National Society in 1847 as Timberland National School.

At some time after 1903 it became known as Timberland CE School.

It became a primary school in September 1956, with the senior pupils transferred to the new Ruskington Secondary Modern School.

The school was closed on 6 April 1971, with the children transferred to the Mrs Mary King's School at Martin.

The school was sometimes also known as Timberland School, Timberland Village School, and (in 1968) Timberland National CE Primary School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/TIMBERLAND-CE-SCHOOL/885939.record?pt=S 

DB 22 May 2018

Detail of heraldry.

"Juste et Droit" means "Just and Right" and was the motto of Sir Thomas Whichcote Bart. He was a principal landowner and presumably helped establish the school. 

DB 22 May 2018

The school was built in 1878. Senior children were transferred to the Tattershall Gartree Secondary Modern School from April 1954.

Tumby Wooside School was closed on 22 July 1982.

May 2018

White's Directory 1872 states :-

"The Free School, which was rebuilt in 1830, at a cost of £200, was founded in 1719, by Mr. James Thompson, who endowed it with 21A. of land, called "South-North Hill," 7A. in the Cars, a common-right in Cowfield, and one "rake" in the South Car.

This land is now let for about £150 a year, but eight acres of it are subject to the Ancholme drainage tax"

And "Goldsmith George James, schoolmaster (Free School)"

Kelly's Directory 1905 has " Public Elementary (formerly Free) School, for 120 children; average attendance, 95 ; John Walley, master; children attending this school are eligible, if duly qualified, as candidate for exhibitions connected with Kirton-in-Lindsey School. The school is controlled by 6 members appointed April, 1903; Charles Rand, correspondent".

DB 27 December 2020

Wainfleet was the birthplace of William Waynflete, who became Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England in the 15th century.

Wainfleet School was founded in 1484 by Waynflete as a feeder school for his other foundation, Magdalen College Oxford.

This fine red brick building was in continual use as a school until the 1980s; it now houses the local museum and library.

Frank Robinson, 2007

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1881, at a cost of £900, for 103 children; F. Lambert Siggs, master. The school is under the control of six managers, appointed May 1st, 1903"

Now Walcott Primary School.

DB 13 June 2020

Former school now a private house.

"A school in the parish was united with the National Society in 1837, and a new school was built in 1869.

It had become a primary school by 1953.

The school was closed on 18 July 1972, with the children transferred to the Grantham National School and Heydour CE School (re-named Heydour and Welby CE School)"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/WELBY-CE-SCHOOL/528870.record?pt=S 

DB 18 June 2018

Former school mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 "National School, supported by subscriptions & a government grant ; John Holmes, master".

and in 1919 " Public Elementary School (mixed), for 120 children; William Waite, master"

DB 17 September 2020

Former school now the village hall.

White's Directory 1872 has " Here is a School which is supported by the landowners and the farmers, and attended by about 60 children"

Also "Robinson Richard, shopkeeper, draper and parish schoolmaster".

DB 6 July 2022 

Welton le Marsh old school

A view of the school from the main road.

Jean Howard 2 March 2024

The school was built in 1860 for 120 pupils at a cost of £600, raised by subscription with the aid of government grants. In due course it became a CE controlled primary school. It never reached such high numbers.

The school closed in 1974  when there were only 13 children on the roll. Thereafter, children from the village attended St Michael's CE Primary School in Louth.

November 2011

Former school located adjacent to St Bartholomew's Church.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 records a public elementary school :-

"Pinchbeck West (mixed & infants), built in 1849 & since enlarged, for 184 children; Geo. Moore, master"

DB 6 May 2018

Notice next to the entrance states

"VILLAGE HALL AND SCHOOL 1856 - 1965

Renovated into Village Hall and Officially Opened by Geoff Capes April 1994" 

Geoff Capes "is a British former shot putter, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Capes 

DB 6 May 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1913 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), for 85 children, with an average attendance of 60; supported in part by the endowment mentioned above & by Miss Molecey's gift of Consols of £208 10s. 2d. ; William Howard Smith, master"

The school closed in 1971 and is now the Village Hall. 

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/WestDeeping/section.asp?docId=103571

DB 31 August 2020

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN THE HOPE THAT HIS LITTLE ONES MAY IN THIS PLACE RECEIVE A GODLY UPBRINGING

JULIA MARY REES LAID THIS STONE AUGUST 31. 1899"

DB 31 August 2020

This building has an unusual history. It was built as a school in 1872 and was closed in 1908.

It then served as a chapel of the Roman Catholic Church with the name Our Lady of the Rosary.

Early in the present century it was refurbished as the village hall and heritage centre.

August 2018

Marked as "R.C. Chapel & School" on the OS 25 inch map published 1906.

Now a registered charity for "Maintaining the village hall and organising community events. Involvement in the Heritage Day" - Charity number: 522007.

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/522007/charity-overview 

DB 14 November 2023

Originally built in 1842 and rebuilt in 1879, the school served the villages of Wickenby and Snelland. The school closed in April 1971.

Photograph taken 1969, by T R Leach

The school originally opened in 1818 and re-opened as a board school in 1877. It closed in the summer of 1995.

June 2017

The former school in School Lane is now a private house. 

"The school was originally opened on 13 April 1858 as a National School, and re-opened in 1877 after a closure of about nine months.

It was known as Wilsford School in 1877, Wilsford Myer's School by 1899.

It was reorganised as a Junior School on 2 February 1942, with children over eleven years old transferred to Sleaford Senior Council School.

The school was closed on 22 July 1987, with the children transferred to Ancaster School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/WILSFORD-MYERS-CE-SCHOOL/886404.record?pt=S 

"Above the doorway is a carved ashlar scroll recording the construction of the school in 1857"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168912 

DB 15 August 2018

This was Withcall National School opened in November 1876 for 60 pupils at a cost of £300.

The first schoolteacher was Miss Catherine Pensionate.

The school closed in April 1969 and is now a private house.

Jean Howard, December 2020

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1850 & enlarged in 1858, for 100 children; Geo. Slayton, master"

Now St Margaret's Church of England Primary School.

DB 29 June 2019

A grammar school was founded in Wragby in 1632 by William Hansard. It was rebuilt by the parish in 1775 and this is the building which survives today.

In the late nineteenth century the building was used as an infants' school. The building has recently been restored.

June 2017

Inscription above the door reads "FOUNDED BY WM HANSARD ESQ 1632"

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Free School, founded in 1627 by Wm. Hansard, has been converted into a Girls' National School, though its founder endowed it with a yearly rent charge of £30, out of an estate at Bilsby, for the instruction of 20 boys of the parish in reading, writing arithmetic, grammar, &c.

It was rebuilt in 1775, at the expense of the parish"

Grade II listed.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063071 

8 April 2019 

The old primary school at Church End was built as a National School in 1862. It closed in 1961.

September 2011

In 1843 a parochial school for 45 boys and girls was built by Revd H Lloyd who also left a legacy towards its support.

The former school now serves as the village hall.

The interior of the building can be seen at: https://yarburghvillagehall.co.uk/gallery/

Jean Howard, January 2024