Was erected in 1800, at the bottom of Swan Hill, pursuant to the will of
the late Mr. John Allatt, formerly chamberlain to the corporation of
Shrewsbury.
The structure is of free-stone, and contains two houses for the master
and mistress, connected with the school rooms by arcades. It cost about
£2000, erected from a plan by Mr. Haycock. The interest of the residue
of Mr. Allatt’s property, maintains a schoolmaster and mistress, and
educates twenty poor boys, and as many girls, whose parents have not
received parochial relief. The children are taught reading, writing, and
arithmetic, and the girls sewing; they are cloathed once a year, and at a
proper age apprenticed. Twenty coats and eighty good stuff gowns are
also distributed annually, to that number of poor old men and women.
Bowler’s School,
In the Back Lane, near the Wyle Cop, is a plain brick building, founded
in 1724, pursuant to the will of Mr. Thomas Bowdler, alderman and draper,
for instructing, cloathing, and apprenticing poor children, of the parish
of St. Julian. The dress is blue.