Moravian School, East Tytherton

In 1745 John Cennick became a Moravian and built the Clergyman's House, the Chapel and a boarding school for young ladies in East Tytherton who were taught music and sewing etc. Separated by the garden was the sisters' house, occupied entirely by females employed in work. The chief amusement was music. Through his work in the village John Cennick became one of the founders of the Moravian Church in England.

A new home for the single sisters was built 1785-6 and in 1792-3 the former Chapel and manse were rebuilt. The present buildings were built in1792-4 and are of red brick with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs. The church cottage appears to be the girls' school, added in 1793-4 and extended or altered later.

In 1859 the school was described in Warburton's Census as '20 to 30 children are taught in a nice little thatched room with wooden floor, by a mistress of the Moravian persuasion'. This school closed in 1931.