National Schools, Milton, Burslem

MILTON (HANLEY) - New national school buildings have been erected here, on a site given by the Right Hon, Sir C. B. Adderley, M.P., in the most prominent and central position in the village. They are in the Gothic style, plain. The accommodation provided is for children in the mixed school, which is 40 ft. by 18 ft.; and for infants in the classroom, which is 14 ft. 3 in. by 13 ft. 6 in. ; and for special purposes, such as tea meetings, both rooms can be thrown together by means of a movable partition. Adjoining the school, a teacher’s residence has been erected. The schoolroom is fitted np with desks, which will also serve as tea-tables, and for seats with inclined backs, as also for forming classes for Sunday-school purposes; and the class-room is fitted up with a gallery. Both the rooms are lofty, well-lighted, and ventilated. The ceiling is at the collar considerably higher than the walls. At the rear of the schools there are playgrounds, which are asphalted and enclosed with walls, and suitable out-offices for each sex, and it is intended to fit up the playgrounds with swings. The front boundary of the site, which is up to the turnpike-road, is inclosed with a brick wall, with open-framed wickets to the several entrances. The materials which have been used are red brick, relieved by bands and voussoirs of blue bricks, and all the strings and labels are of moulded blue bricks. The principal elevation, which is to the turnpike-road, shows a gable for the mixed school, which is filled in with three lancet windows and a rose window above, and the gable is surmounted by a bell gablet, fitted with a bell and finished with an iron vane. The remainder of this elevation, consisting of the classroom and the principal front of the residence, harmonises with the school. The contract for the building has been executed by Messrs. J. & G. Moss, of Ford Green, from the design and under the superintendence of Mr. George B. Ford, architect, Burslem, [Builder 14 October 1871 page 813]

Archive            Front Elevation Copyright; Staffordshire Record Office D812/4/11-14
Reference        Builder 14 October 1871 page 813