ABSTRACT
When we reach the nineteenth century, we naturally find that the surviving evidence, both architectural and documentary, becomes much more plentiful: in fact, the main difficulty is that of selecting significant examples from the large number of school buildings which survive. The great expansion of elementary education during the nineteenth century and the growing part played by the State in helping to provide schools has been dealt with extensively by educational historians, and we may therefore more suitably concentrate on the purely structural development of schools, using written evidence only where it is essential for interpreting the buildings and the educational ideas which affected their layout. Although the history of education in the nineteenth century has been well worked over in the past, a study of school architecture and organization does in fact throw fresh light on the general development of education during this period.
