CHICHESTER: Lancastrian School for Boys

E/35/1/1 was deposited by the Revd. Canon A.R. Browne Wilkinson, The Residentiary, Chichester, October 1955. E/35/1/2-10, E/35/3/1, E/35/8/1-2, E/35/12/1, E/35/13/1/1, E/35/19/1-2 were deposited by R.E. Lewis, Esq., Lancastrian County Secondary School for Boys, Orchard Street, February 1952.

E/35/19/20 deposited by Miss McCreedie of Bracklesham Bay, December 1998.

E/35/13/5,6 and E/35/19/6-19 were deposited by the Headmaster, Chichester High School for Boys, June 1999.

The remainder of the collection was deposited by P.R. Watkins, Esq., a former Headmaster, in October 1980.

This school was originally opened in Tower Street in 1810 as an all age school for boys. Despite its title, however, it was not specifically non-conformist.

When the school was first opened it consisted of just one large room, but later a smaller room on the south side was added. In 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the large room was divided by a clumsy moveable screen, and another class was added at the south east corner. Shortly after becoming a Council School, the school moved into new buildings at Orchard Street in 1910. On 1st October 1931 the school became the Lancastrian Council Senior Boys School. In 1951, because of severe overcrowding the school moved to its present site at Kingsham Farm. By 1971 the school merged with the Chichester High School for Boys (see E/35Z). For more information about the early history of the school see T. G. Willis's Records of Chichester. For records of the Lancastrian Girls School (see E/35Y).