N.B.--There are Sunday Schools connected with the different places of
Worship some of which are held in Board Schools.
LAMBETH DIVISION LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.--Accommodation Area and Cost of
New Permanent Schools.
Name of School. Children Area Cost of Cost of
Accommodation. sq. feet. Site. Building.
Sleaford Street 1,055 23,000 £2543 1s. 4d. £8399 19s. 3d.
Tennyson Road 837 28,000 £2376 18s. 6d. £7590 9s. 1d.
Gideon Road 776 19,700 £3404 18s. 3d. £9921 7s. 5d.
Holden Street 1,101 26,887 £3074 14s. 1d. £10305 1s. 7d.
Battersea Park 1,334 32,670 £2378 5s. 5d. £7442 12s. 9d.
Bolingbroke Road 792 54,426 £768 5s. 5d. £5980 15s. 10d.
Mantua Street 1,105 32,670 £2334 5s. 4d. £11337 1s. 1d.
Winstanley Road 1,127 17,792 £3152 5s. 5d. £7948 4s. 7d.
Belleville Road 828 £1661 6s. 2d. £10165 19s. 11d.
8,955
[Footnote 1: Since the First Edition of this Work was published,
Tennyson Road School has been enlarged in order to accommodate 400
Scholars. Landseer Street Board School is held in the large room under
the Chapel and accommodates 200 boys. J. R. Ayris, Head Master. Ponton
Road Board School, Nine Elms, opened for girls 9th June, 1879, and for
boys August 18th, the same year, has accommodation for 350, Master,
Mr. Chase. Mistress, Miss Nutcher. On the South side of Battersea Park
Road, between Lockington Road and Havelock Terrace a large Board School
has been built to hold about 1,400 children. Christ Church Schools,
Falcon Grove, have passed for the present into the hands of the School
Board for London. It is in contemplation to erect four more Board
Schools in Battersea.]
The first building erected for the London School Board, situated in one
of the most densely crowded localities of the East-end, was opened in
July, 1873, and since that time no fewer than 152 large Schools have
been completed with a total accommodation for about 182,000 children,
and an average accommodation for 872 children each. In addition to
these, between 30 and 40 schools are now in course of erection, and
about 50 other schools have been determined upon, thus the Board is
most active in providing for the educational requirements of the
Metropolis. Mr. E. R. Robson, F.R.I.B.A., is the Architect of this
Board.
The Board School in Winstanley Road accommodates about 1130 children,
the site is the shape of a rhomboid, and the School has been skilfully
planned to make the most of it.
Gideon Road Board Schools, the boys and girls' departments are built
upon arches to form covered play-grounds underneath. As the site
contains sufficient area, the infants' department has been erected as a
separate building.
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