Schools

Schools

There have been a number of schools in the village - dating from the Free Grammar School to the present day Primary School which opened in 1912.

The Free Grammar School was founded in 1639, by Richard Bond, who endowed it with £1,040. It was laid out in the purchase of a farm at Great Snoring (let for £110 a year in 1854 and £100 in 1916). This farm was vested in 1650, in trust, for the support of a master and usher, to teach freely 30 children of the "meaner parishioners." For many years, it was of little benefit to the poor; but in 1836, it was opened as a free school, for all the branches of an English education, as well as for the classics.



A National School was erected here, by Mr. Lee-Warner in 1872 (to include an adjoining head master's house) conducted according to a scheme drawn up by the Court of Chancery in 1861.

"The school is open to all boys of the parish who are able to read, and are more than seven years of age, on payment of small sums not exceeding 4s. a quarter. They may remain until the age of 16, and are instructed in Greek and Latin, Algebra, and all the branches of education taught in the public schools. William Shaw Hayler Esq., is the head master "

A new department for girls and infants was added in 1904. The land was eventually sold to the Perowne family with the farm now called School Farm. This National School was to be known as the Walsingham Grammar School, closing in 1950 when the headmaster Harry Hayler died. At the time all pupils from age 5 to 16 were taught in the same classroom. Fees were stated as £2.00 per term There were only around fifteen pupils when it closed, with the older ones transfering to Fakenham Secondary School



Great Walsingham had it's own school when on the 15th March 1875 a school board was convened and school and master's house were erected at an outlay of £670 in that same year for 90 children - William Grant the master and Mrs Grant the mistress.

In 1883 the Board consisted of the Rev. J. Lee-Warner (chairman), and Messrs. J. J. Cornish, G. Wright, J. Howell and E. Fisher and R. Cowburn. It was partially rebuilt in 1911.



The present Primary School was erected in 1912 for 230 (!) children. Alfred Percy Rawlings was the master and C A Cornish the mistress. A P Rawlings left in 1915 to join up with the RAMC - serving as a stretcher bearer before returning to the school.

Later teachers would be (during the war) Mr Lewis as headmaster, Miss Woollard, Miss Howell and Mr Garrod as sports master.
Two teachers arrived with the London evacuees - Miss Looker and Miss Cruikshanks (the latter married Mr Garrod)
Later teachers included Headmasters Harvey Grace and after Gerald Stocking, with teachers Mrs Pearce, Mr Dunn and Mrs Wyer.



There was also a school known as the Sanctuary School located at what was previously the Old Vicarage (Sue Ryders) on Scarborough Road. In 1940 Quinton Hall School in Harrow evacuated some of their boys to Walsingham. The younger boys lived at the school whilst the oldeer boys lived at the Friary.

The school was seen as a ready source for choir boys at the shrine which caused no small conflict between headmasters and Father Hope- Patten. It closed in the mid fifties



School Sports Day



1964



1965 (March)



1965



1966

> There have been a number of schools in the village - dating from the Free Grammar School to the present day Primary School which opened in 1912.

The Free Grammar School was founded in 1639, by Richard Bond, who endowed it with £1,040. It was laid out in the purchase of a farm at Great Snoring (let for £110 a year in 1854 and £100 in 1916). This farm was vested in 1650, in trust, for the support of a master and usher, to teach freely 30 children of the "meaner parishioners." For many years, it was of little benefit to the poor; but in 1836, it was opened as a free school, for all the branches of an English education, as well as for the classics.



A National School was erected here, by Mr. Lee-Warner in 1872 (to include an adjoining head master's house) conducted according to a scheme drawn up by the Court of Chancery in 1861.

"The school is open to all boys of the parish who are able to read, and are more than seven years of age, on payment of small sums not exceeding 4s. a quarter. They may remain until the age of 16, and are instructed in Greek and Latin, Algebra, and all the branches of education taught in the public schools. William Shaw Hayler Esq., is the head master "

A new department for girls and infants was added in 1904. The land was eventually sold to the Perowne family with the farm now called School Farm. This National School was to be known as the Walsingham Grammar School, closing in 1950 when the headmaster Harry Hayler died. At the time all pupils from age 5 to 16 were taught in the same classroom. Fees were stated as £2.00 per term There were only around fifteen pupils when it closed, with the older ones transfering to Fakenham Secondary School



Great Walsingham had it's own school when on the 15th March 1875 a school board was convened and school and master's house were erected at an outlay of £670 in that same year for 90 children - William Grant the master and Mrs Grant the mistress.

In 1883 the Board consisted of the Rev. J. Lee-Warner (chairman), and Messrs. J. J. Cornish, G. Wright, J. Howell and E. Fisher and R. Cowburn. It was partially rebuilt in 1911.



The present Primary School was erected in 1912 for 230 (!) children. Alfred Percy Rawlings was the master and C A Cornish the mistress. A P Rawlings left in 1915 to join up with the RAMC - serving as a stretcher bearer before returning to the school.

Later teachers would be (during the war) Mr Lewis as headmaster, Miss Woollard, Miss Howell and Mr Garrod as sports master.
Two teachers arrived with the London evacuees - Miss Looker and Miss Cruikshanks (the latter married Mr Garrod)
Later teachers included Headmasters Harvey Grace and after Gerald Stocking, with teachers Mrs Pearce, Mr Dunn and Mrs Wyer.



There was also a school known as the Sanctuary School located at what was previously the Old Vicarage (Sue Ryders) on Scarborough Road. In 1940 Quinton Hall School in Harrow evacuated some of their boys to Walsingham. The younger boys lived at the school whilst the oldeer boys lived at the Friary.

The school was seen as a ready source for choir boys at the shrine which caused no small conflict between headmasters and Father Hope- Patten. It closed in the mid fifties



School Sports Day



1964



1965 (March)



1965



1966