Wesleyan Methodist School, West Grimstead

There was a Wesleyan school where a man and his wife taught between 15 and 20 children in a cottage mentioned in 1858 when the teaching was described as ‘very rudimentary’. The couple teaching the children were Richard Curtis and his wife; in the 1859 Kelly’s Directory he is listed as ‘master of Wesleyan school’ and it is likely the school had been in existence for some years before this. The school was closed in 1864 but re-opened later the same year and continued until 1867 when both Anglican and Methodist children attended the Parochial School.