A Vicar in Victorian Norfolk by Susanna Wade Martins

Author:Susanna Wade Martins [Martins, Susanna Wade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Modern, 19th Century, Religion, Christianity, Clergy
ISBN: 9781783273300
Google: NAo7EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2018-01-15T22:31:54+00:00

18Dereham British School. The inscription over the original door states that it was built by voluntary subscription ‘liberally supported’ by W. Lee-Warner in 1841. The windows on either side were part of the new build when it was taken over by the School Board after 1870.

19Dereham Church School, rebuilt in 1841 and little changed during Armstrong’s lifetime.

Where there was a resident squire, the responsibility might be shared with the landowner, but this was not to be the case in Dereham. In 1841 Mr Lee-Warner of Quebec Hall, ‘who wavered between church and dissent’ (16/6/52), provided the funds for the competing non-conformist British Society to build a school in Norwich Street. With this lack of support for a National School from the leading family, it was up to the priest to secure funding through subscriptions. By 1840 the Dereham school building was inadequate for the number of children attending and efforts to raise money for a new building began. A ‘Fancy Bazaar’ supported by Lord and Lady Sondes and all the local aristocracy, as well as leading members of the town community, was held. A second bazaar was run in the following year.10 A building for 300 children and a schoolmaster’s house was finally opened to compete with the British School in December 1841.11 Unlike many church schools, it was not built on the glebe near the church but on a site away from the centre of the town at the far end of Theatre Street. A small branch school was set up by Armstrong in 1852 in the hamlet at Etling Green which he visited regularly.

Alongside the formal National and British schools were the smaller and unregulated ‘dame schools’. These were generally frowned upon by the recognised schools and very little is known about them. A few such schools existed in the town and the log-book for the church school records on the first of December 1873 that ‘twelve children were admitted, some from the Board [previously British] school and from various dame schools’.12

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