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It is thought that in the parish of Eggbuckland there was a school attached to the parish church of St Edward's at quite an early date. It was variously known as the Chantry or Charity school. In 1775 the local landowner, Mr Peter Culme, gave £3 per annum towards its upkeep. It does not appear to have had its own building as lessons were understood to have taken place in the vicarage. Dividends of stock were paid to the schoolmaster in part of his salary, the residue being made up by private subscriptions.
Eggbuckland National School can
be seen to the The National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church certainly took over the old chantry or charity school and on Tuesday February 16th 1846 laid the foundation stone of a new school building. It was built in a part of the vicarage garden, donated by the Reverend George Hunt, and cost £487 18s 7½d exclusive of the cost of thr site. The new school was completed on May 29th 1847 and presumably opened soon afterwards. In 1871 the Laira Green and Egg Buckland School Board took over responsibility for the School and when the area was amalgamated in to Plymouth in 1896 control passed to the Plymouth School Board. The senior children were transferred to Crownhill Senior School in 1935 and in 1941 a group of children over the age of 9 years was transferred to Crownhill Primary School. Thus the school became for infants only. A subsequent increase in the local population after end of the Second World War made it necessary to establish a separate infants' class at the Community Centre in the village. That building remained in use until 1971, when the pupils were moved to the new St Edward's Church of England Primary School in Fort Austin Avenue.
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