3-028-151 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir William Turner's Grammar School, Coatham, Redcar, 1870. 'The new buildings of Sir W. Turner's Grammar School have been recently erected at Coatham,...by order of the Court of Chancery, instead of the old school-house at Kirkleatham, about two miles distant. The school was founded in 1676, and endowed with land, now producing about £450 a year, by Sir W. Turner, a merchant and Lord Mayor of London, "under whose wise and just administration (says Burnet) the rebuilding of the City after the Great Fire advanced so fast that he would have been chosen Lord Mayor the ensuing year, but he declined." The new building is a handsome structure in the Italian-Gothic style, 100 ft. in length, with a depth of 50 ft. It is surmounted by a tower, rising to a considerable height. It contains the school-room, dining-hall, class-rooms, dormitories, bath-rooms, and other requisite accommodation, with a suitable residence for the Head Master, and apartments for the second master. The cost of the building was about £5000. The architect was Mr. C. J. Adams, of Stockton-on-Tees. This school, within a short distance by rail of those rapidly-growing towns, Middlesborough and Stockton, has a most favourable position, close to the fine sea-beach of Redcar'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.