The inscription over the central window reads ‘AD 1881’. The adjacent chapel had opened in 1854. The chapel closed in 1968 and the school was then used for services until that too closed in 1985 and was largely demolished as seen here although the…
This building is now Crossley Heath School, before then it was Crossley and Porter Grammar School, it was built as the town's orphanage- albeit a very grand one. Postcard dated 1912.