Rotherham - former school on Down's Row
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Rotherham - former school on Down's Row
Image: © Dave Bevis Taken: 30 Mar 2014
This former school (with small churchyard) is tucked away at the end of a side street (Down's Row) off of Moorgate Street. The history of the school is provided on an inscribed stone in the building's exterior east wall as follows: "In the year 1702 a school for the education of poor children in Rotherham was endowed by THOMAS HOLLIS SENR of London and afterwards by his descendants. And in 1789 THIS BUILDING was erected and the school further endowed for the same purpose, by the contributions of several of the Trustees and other Protestant Dissenters". For more information on Thomas Hollis, please see http://www.natgould.org/Thomas_Hollis_1634-1718 .
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Image Location
Latitude
53.426928
Longitude
-1.356602