Thornton United Methodist Free Churches schools

Schools were built in 1889. A report of the stone laying described the proposed buildings
“The schools consist of one main building, 90ft. long and 40ft. wide, with an infants’ school at one side, with gallery and separate entrance. The main building contains an assembly room 52ft. by 40ft. with clas-rooms at each end. Owing to the nature of the ground the caretaker’s house is provided under the school, but on a level with the street; this contains living room , two bedrooms, scullery, and also heating chamber for warming apparatus. The building will be built of stone from the district; the woodwork will be pitch-pine, stained and varnished. The cost of the building exclusive of the site, but including new classrooms forming in the present school, will be about £1,600. The work is being carried out from plans drawn and under the supervision, of Mr William Rycrodt, architect, of Bradford”.
Building News 12.4.1889 p. 530