Empty and barred
Introduction
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Empty and barred
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 24 Jun 2021
This building is the entrance to the former Dame School - a place of formal education established in the late 1700s, primarily by a Revd, Caleb Evans - a President of the Baptist Academy and Pastor of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Broadmead. The Dame School (also known as also known as the National, Church School House or Charity School) was set up on land that was formerly the gardens of the first Mangotsfield Workhouse in 1770. The school taught local pupils the rudiments and religious teachings until 1872, whereupon the restricted size became a serious problem - serious enough to cause desire for a newer and bigger school to be built. However, this site seems to have simply been left and now appears more like a public place. However, the building attracted some undesireable attention so is now barred.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.484555
Longitude
-2.485708