George Herbert School, Salisbury

In 1889 the Kilburn Sisterhood built an infants' department for the Ragged School on a plot of land at Gigant Street. The George Herbert School opened in 1890 and the infants' were moved there. In 1900 the ragged School amalgamated with the George Herbert School, which then provided accommodation for 478 pupils. In 1902 the attendance was 217 and this had risen to 264 by 1918 with both junior and infants' departments. Numbers increased and there was a partial amalgamation with St. Martin's with the boys going there and George Herbert being left with 232 girls and 191 infants. Under local re-organisation of education in 1926 the senior girls were transferred to St. Edmund's school and the infants and girls under 11 remained at George Herbert's. In 1930 the girls' department separated as St. Martin's Junior Girls' School and George Herbert became an infants' school. The school closed in 1938 and the infants were transferred to other schools, particularly St. Martin's.