Schools GAZ Carlisle

City: Carlisle Grammar School (usually called High School until 1880), recorded as early as 1186; in 1806 new school built in West Walls; replaced by a new building there in 1832.  Moved to Strand Road in 1883 (see below, Rickergate).  Central School for boys and girls was a large structure at the West Wall, built 1812 on ground given by the Corporation.  Fawcett School (boys and girls), West Walls, opened 1851;took over the buildings of the Central School sometime before 1884.  St.Patrick's Schools for boys and girls in Spring Gardens, founded in 1825, for the education of children of all denominations. It was enlarged in 1844.  Moved to new building in 1908; became part of Cardinal Newman School (see Rickergate) in 1968.  The British or Lancastrian School, for boys and girls, originated in Lancastrian School established 1811 in Watergate. British school erected in Mary Street in 1834; closed 1885; demolished 1973.  High School for Girls, opened in1884 in Castle Street; removed to Lismore Place 1909 (see below, Rickergate)

The Academy of Arts in Finkle Street established in 1823 was the forerunner of the College of Art in Finkle St, founded 1856.  It moved to Tullie House (see Other Institutions) in 1893, and from there to STANWIX in 1951.

Rickergate: Carlisle Grammar School, moved to new premises on Spring Garden Lane in 1883 and to Strand Road (name changed to Trinity School, 1968).  Carlisle and County High School for Girls, Lismore Place, opened 1909; became mixed school (St Aidan’s School) 1970; closed 2008.  Cardinal Newman R C School, opened 1968.  Further education classes previously held at Tullie House, moved to new Technical College (now Carlisle College), Victoria Place, in 1954.

Botchergate: National schools:Christ Church National School, completed 1830; St John’s National Boys’ school, Close Street, erected 1869.  Board schools: Brook Street Board schools, built 1892.  School of Industry, Botchergate, built 1806; active 1847.  St Martin’s College took over the City General Hospital site, Fusehill Street, after its closure in 2000; it is now part of the University of Cumbria.

Caldewgate: A mixed school was opened in Shaddongatein 1836, adjoining the cotton factory of Peter Dixon and Sons, for ‘facilitating the education of the offspring of the operative classes’.  Shaddongate Adult School and Reading Room founded in 1857.  Holy Trinity School, Caldewgate (boys, girls and infants), built 1842; enlarged 1895; closed 1915.  Caldewgate Ragged and Industrial School(also known as ‘Head’s School’); opened by philanthropist George Head Head in Shaddongate in 1851; closed by 1891. St. Bede's Roman Catholic School, opened 1866 as school chapel mission; new buildings 1883-4; enlarged 1889; old school closed in1962.  Newcastle Street and Kendal Street Elementary School, for both boys and girls, erected in 1875.  Board schools: Caldewgate School, opened 1872; enlarged 1885; Caldewgate Junior School closed in 1988, when combined with Caldew Lea School.  Ashley Street Elementary School, for boys and girls, erected in 1895; closed 1988.  Denton Holme schools (later the Robert Ferguson schools), built Morley Street, 1879; senior mixed school built East Dale Street, 1904; closed 1970.  Belle Vue primary school, opened 1970.