2-888-266 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The New Free Grammar and Commercial School at Loughborough, [Leicestershire], 1850. '...a view of the School Buildings, as they will appear when completed. The architects are Messrs. Morris and Hebson. The style is old English, with ornamented gables, bay windows, aud other picturesque features The edifice, backed by the lovely, forest hills of Charnwood, will be a very effective scene...The extensive Schools [are] about to be erected, on a scheme approved by the Court of Chancery, from the funds left for charitable uses, in 1498, by Thomas Burton, a merchant of the staple, a resident, and, it is believed, a native of that town [Loughborough]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.