Monument record 11253 - St Olave's School, Lower Bridge Street

St Olave's Ragged School was first built in 1852 on a site adjacent to St Olave's Church. It survived until 1876 when it was demolished and only the playground is recorded on the Ordnance Survey Town Plans of the 1870s. It was subsequently replaced by the St Michael with St Olave's school in 1879 some distance from the Lower Bridge Street frontage. (1)

The later school building remains in situ although it has since been converted into a church.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1872-1875, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH6780.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

<5> Lewis C.P & Thacker A.T. (eds), 2005, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume Vii, The City of Chester - The City of Chester, Culture, Buildings, Institutions (Book). SCH6522.