CHRIST CHURCH NATIONAL SCHOOLS, Grove Road, Falcon Lane, were erected from designs of Mr. C. E. Robins, selected in competition, and were built by Messrs. Lathey Brothers at a cost of £3,000. Accommodation is given for 200 boys, 200 girls and about the same number of infants. There are two residences, one for the Master and the other for the Mistress. The buildings form a picturesque group facing the roads on three sides with intermediate play-grounds for each sex. Mr. Robins was also the Architect for the British Schools at Wandsworth and other Educational Buildings in the Parish, as the Walter St. John's Upper Schools and the extension of the Training College, the Chapel of which was decorated by him some seven years since. The office of E. C. Robins, F.R.I.B.A., etc., is No. 14, John Street, Adelphi. ST. GEORGE'S NATIONAL SCHOOLS, built in 1857 from designs furnished by Joseph Peacock, Architect, Bloomsbury Square. Cost about £4,500 including a Parliamentary Grant of £1,500. The Schools were enlarged in 1870. The Infant Schools were established in 1826. The following text of Scripture is engraved on a stone outside the buildings. "From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."--_II. Timothy iii._ 15. Boys and Girls 4d. per week for one in a family, 6d. for two brothers or sisters, and 7d. for three in a family, Infants 2d. Erected outside St. Mary's Schools, Green Lane, is a tablet bearing the following inscription:--"National Schools for Girls and Infants. These buildings were erected by Miss Champion on land granted by Earl Spencer, and opened April 10th, 1850, for the education of the children of the poor on Scriptural principles." This tablet is placed by order of the Parishioners in Vestry assembled in Grateful Remembrance of her Munificent Charities to the Parish of Battersea.--Rev. J. S. Jenkinson, M.A., _Vicar_. W. H. Wilson, John Hunt, _Churchwardens_, 1855. Within the Parish of Battersea there were in the year 1879, Fourteen Voluntary Schools, viz.:-- SIR WALTER ST. JOHN'S Accommodation. Up-stairs Middle-class for Boys. Terms, 15s. to 25s. per quarter. Ditto Ground-floor Public Elementary School for Boys. Payments, 6d. and 9d. per week. Head Master, Mr. Taylor; Assistants, Mr. Jones, B.A., Mr. E. Mills, Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Blackman. 489 ST. MARY'S, Green Lane. Girls; Mistress, Miss Keene. Infants' Governess; Miss Paul. Boys: Master, Mr. T. Ryder. Fees, Boys and Girls 4d. a week, of which at the year's end 2d. a week will be returned to all who have attended more than 250 times. Infants 3d. a week, of which 1d. a week will be returned to regular attendants at the year's end. 606 CHRIST CHURCH, Grove Road. Master, Mr. Weston. Mistress, Miss Paton. Infants, Miss Kemp. 590