Salisbury British School, Salisbury

In 1829 a schoolroom was erected in connexion with the Congregational chapel in Scot's Lane. By 1859 around 80 infants were being taught there and after 1862, when the Congregationalists moved to another chapel in Endless Street, the school continued in Scot's Lane. By 1870 the children, 38 boys and 93 girls, were being taught in two rooms and were paying between a penny and fourpence a week. In August 1871 the school managers closed the school and offered it to the Salisbury School Board but there were complaints from parents and they re-opened the school in 1874. Attendances increased steadily and had reached 275 by 1884, but then decllined to 181 in 1881. In November 1888 the premises were condemned by an HMI report and the school closed at Christmas that year, with the children being transferred to other schools for the following term. The building was used for commercial purposes until the 1960s when it was demolished.