St Edmund's C of E School, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire
This school has the inscription 'National School 1845'. It is built in a Tudor Revival style of architecture. The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor supported the building of National Schools on behalf of the Anglican Church. National Schools generally had two separate schoolrooms. One for girls and one for boys, with desks placed around the walls. Pupils were taught by monitors in groups of twelve to twenty either standing up or on benches arranged in hollow squares in the centre of the room. These benches could be re-arranged to suit the lesson.
