Chester School of Art

The School of Art was housed in the Grosvenor Museum from 1886 when the museum was built. It originated as a School of Art, established circa 1850 when it was part of the School of Science, fostered by the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature and Art which was founded in 1871 by Canon Charles Kingsley, (1818-1875). The Schools of Art and Science were amalgamated in 1886. Although the technical school, founded at the museum in 1892, developed into the City and County School for Boys and was relocated to Queen's Park in 1912, the School of Art remained at the museum. It ceased to exist as a separate school in 1956 when it became a department of the College of Further Education. Classes were held at the museum until circa 1960. Its alumni included Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, William Lee Hankey, Royal Academician Michael Sandle and teacher Walter Schroder.

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