Devizes Literary & Scientific Institute
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Located at 53 Northgate Street, set back from the road. The Wiltshire Council website states that the building dates from 1822, when it was a British School for Girls, serving the Nonconformists of the town. It was closed at short notice in 1893 in the mistaken belief that a school board was about to be formed in Devizes. The children were then accommodated in the town schools or educated in the parish rooms. In 1895 the building was handed over to the borough for a technical school and was sold in 1906.