According to Lewis Turnor, little was known in his day of the origins of this establishment. At that time (1830), none of its proceedings could be traced further back than 1751, although it probably existed long before that. According to Turnor, it ‘languished’, until revived by Baroness Dimsdale.
Thereafter it was controlled by a Charity limited to 24 members, each of whom annually subscribed one guinea (21s) and each of whom nominated a girl to attend. Turnor’s description of the ‘curriculum’ nicely reveals what was considered an appropriate education for such girls: ‘Besides being carefully instructed in the religious principles of the Established Church, they are taught to read and work at their needle, and to knit; and are employed in making their own linen, and also the shirts, bands and stockings of the boys belonging to the Green Coat School’. The Girls’ School also benefited from the Annual Charity Sermon,
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