Owslebury School First Established in (confirmed records) 1823 Original bills are in Church Records.
Mrs. Alice Long endowed £14 a year out of an annuity of £30 left for the School and the poor, in payment of her usual subscription to the Parochial School, and subject thereto to the purchase of fuel, blankets, clothing, or provision for the benefit of the deserving poor.
Gilbert White's Hampshire: also records the above information.
Church Records: These record the building of the School as being 'commenced in the Spring of 1840* but, owing to incomplete records (presumably lost) the actual opening of the School is not recorded, - in any place.
Item
£
s
d
* £ today
approx
To building School House at Owslebury
per estimate 1837
£191
10
0d
13752.00
Increase in price for timber
10
0
0d
720.00
To tank built in wash house
6
17
0d
476.00
Pipes, drains
7
0
0d
504.00
To 12 yards of digging to privys, and preparing foundation for shed walls
12
0d
43.00
147 feet of reduced brick and flint work
7
0
0d
504.00
3 yards of brick paving
10
6d
36.00
134 feet of slating
1
17
6d
126.00
262 feet of flint walling
9
16
6d
648.00
50 feet triangular brick coping
1
15
0d
117.00
To cast iron boiler, door frames and grate in wash house
1
12
6d
110.00
To fixing kitchen grate
13
0d
50.00
Topping up fireplace in School room and cementing
7
6d
27.00
2 grates for bedroom and wash house
10
0d
36.00
Fixing for bedroom and wash house
10
0d
36.00
Pump - fixed complete
5
0
0d
360.00
House sink, with lead pipes, drain & small cesspool