Winchester’s Schools’ Plan: Adopted by Large Majority: A special meeting of the Winchester City Council was held yesterday, when Major J. R. Pinsent, D.S.O., Chairman of the Education Committee, presented a scheme for the reorganization of the Senior Elementary Schools in the city. The approximate cost to the city would be £25,920, he said, and the loan charges at 5 per cent, for a period of 50 years would be £1,300 a year. Under the scheme the Danemark Council Central School would become redundant and would probably be used for A.R.P. work and a training centre for services on the lines of the Territorial Army. The Council, with four dissentients, adopted the following recommendations: That the City Council obtain sanction for loan of an amount not exceeding £30,000 for the erection of a new Church of England mixed school for senior pupils, of which 25 per cent, would be repaid by the Diocesan Authorities and 37 ½ per cent, by the Board of Education. Having regard to: The proposed closure of St. Mary’s, St. Thomas (and probably St. Faith’s) Schools, owing to the inadequacy of the buildings and playgrounds: the desire of the Church of England authorities to build a modern senior school under the terms the Education Act, 1936; and the intention the County Education Authority to re-organize and build a senior school at Winchester, thereby necessitating the discontinuance of Danemark a central selective school. … … …
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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957