Memorial School, Westbourne Road, Marsh

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Details

  • also known as: Allen Memorial School, Trinity Church Memorial School
  • appears on maps: 1905 [#79]
  • location: corner of Westbourne Road & Mission Street (now St. James's Road), Marsh
  • status: no longer exists
  • category: school

Built in memory of Miss Hannah Allen — niece of Benjamin Haigh Allen who had endowed Holy Trinity Church — who died in Scarborough on 28 July 1863. Miss Allen's dying wish was reportedly that "an Infants' School should be built at Marsh".[1]

The school was opened on Palm Sunday, 1865.[2]

By the 1960s, the school had been converted into an Adult Education Centre. It was later closed and had been demolished by the 1970s.

Further Reading

Location

  1. Holy Trinity, Huddersfield: Three Lectures on the History of the Church and Parish, 1819-1904 (1913), Lecture III.
  2. "Marsh: The New Church Schools" in Huddersfield Chronicle (15/Apr/1865).