Queen Elizabeth Old Grammar School, Boarshaw Row, Middleton, Greater Manchester
This school building dates from 1586. The earliest educational foundation in Middleton for which firm documentary evidence survives is a free grammar school established in 1412 by Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham. He was a native of Middleton. This was located in the former St Cuthbert's Chantry attached to St Leonards Church. In 1572 the school was refounded by Rovert Nowell as the Free School of Queen Elizabeth and land was purchased in 1586 for a school and schoolmaster's house. By 1867 numbers at the school had fallen to just 34. The school was described as 'with the exception of that of Oldham the most woe-begone in all Lancashire'. The school was closed in 1902.
