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The Stonehouse Public School for Poor Children was established in 1811 in the north-west gallery of the parish church, St George's. It is recorded in the Trustee's Minute books that pews were to be removed and replaced with forms for the accommodation of the boys and girls. By the 1820s the School had its own premises in Market Street. By an Indenture dated 31st July 1851, the Right Honourable Ernest Augustus, Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, granted the land on which the School stood to the Reverend William Hamilton Nantes, the Perpetual Curate of the parish of East Stonehouse, and Mr Jonathan Clouter and Mr Charles Chapple, churchwardens, 'in consideration of his desire to encourage the School now formed and established within the said parish...'. The site of approximately 11½ perches was in Market Street, on the corner with Quarry Street, and backing on to the gardens of numbers 18, 19 and 20 Emma Place. The grant was for 1,000 years at an annual rent of one shilling. This grant coincides with the appearance of St George's National School so it was presumably renamed to enhance the link with the parish church.
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