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Montgomery Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 4AQ

Looking down Burns Street towards Waverley St, on which the Arboretum lies. The high wall is a boundary wall of Waverley House School, an independent PNEU-orientated preparatory day school for boys and girls of between 3-11 yrs. Parents’ National Education Union schools arose from the work and teachings of the Welsh liberal educator Charlotte Mason (1842-1923). Mason taught at the Bishop Otter Teacher Training College in Chichester and Parents' Educational Union schools (later to become known as PNEU schools) arose from her particular educational philosophy.

All Saints' Anglican Church occupies this a prime site between Raleigh St and All Saints’ Street. It dates from 1864 when new houses were being built when the older parts of the city were permitted to expand. The church, plus the vicarage, a school and a headmaster's house - all on the same site - were designed by T.C. Hine and paid for by William Windley, a Nottingham magistrate. The former school can be seen on the left-hand margin of the picture although it ceased to function in 1905. The school premises are currently owned by a Nigerian congregation.

When Nottingham expanded beyond its mediaeval core after the Enclosure Act of 1845, some of the first suburbs were built in the area north of the city centre, between Alfreton and Mansfield Roads, with the grander houses in the streets near All Saints' Church.

The church was built in 1863-4 to serve the prosperous suburb which developed north of the city centre after the Enclosure Act of 1845. "Gothic, rock-faced stone with bands of red Mansfield and cream Little Eaton ashlar. Apsidal chancel, with N chapel and S vestry" (Elain Harwood in the Pevsner Architectural Guide to Nottingham). This is a view from the east end of Raleigh Street on a bright August morning.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm90313

There is an OS benchmark Image on the wall about 2m right of the parking sign pole

Detail of the apse with dragon gargoyle. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6229855 for location and http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/nottingham-all-saints/hintro.php for details.

Waverley Street passes the western edge of the Arboretum that gives this part of Nottingham its name, and is the route by which the Nottingham Express Transit tramway enters Nottingham city centre from the north. Part of Nottingham High School, an independent boys' day school which celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2013, is visible beyond the Arboretum itself.

Designed by Thomas Chambers Hine, 1863-64.