Church School, Rushall
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In the early 19th century a school stood on the west side of the Devizes to Enford road; this is assumed to have been built between 1808 and 1818 and was documented in the Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of .the Poor in 1819. In 1835 Some 30 children attended the school and a number of parents paid 1d. per week for their children’s attendance. In 1859 HM Inspector William Warburton described the school as a “thatched and whitewashed building, without residence attached” and gave its construction as some 14 years before his report. He also reported that 20 pupils, both boys and girls, were taught by a mistress, “an intelligent person”, and that the school was maintained by the parish curate. In the 1850s a night school for boys and girls of both Anglican and dissenting families was held in the building.