Church Street: (view 4) Barnsley Grammar School (Cooper Art Gallery)
The Barnsley (Holgate) Grammar School (for boys) functioned until about 1912, its upper more ornamented part (in the distance) occupied by the headmaster. The ivy-clad lower part was the school frontage. This building became the Cooper Art Gallery named after the local philanhropist Samuel Joshua Cooper. Note the protective wrought iron railings that run along the frontage of the building, and tall street lamp in front of the upper part of the premisses. The school moved to a new site and new build at Shaw Lane in 1912 but this has now been demolished. The old grammar school was founded in 1660 by Thomas Keresforth. Cooper provided a university scholarships for pupils. By the 1920s the new Shaw Lane school had c.550 boys.
Church Street
File Number: EGT236
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