ST. BOTOLPH'S SCHOOL.

[Geoff-E]

Could it have been the school at the SE corner of Pump Square?

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=532941,344114

Select the 1889 town plan (on the right)

The 1968 1:2500 map puts a name on it but it's very small.

[Redroger]

I was able to give the map 200% magnification and still read it. The school which is next to Pump Square methodist chapel is St. Botolph's. Looking at the map Pat, Main Ridge does indeed run into Pump Square, which then runs into Dolphin Lane and then Boston Market Place. I wonder if Google Street view shows it?

[Geoff-E]

The chapel is there but there are new houses beyond http://tinyurl.com/4zzqdj6

I've never been able to get the "enhanced zoom" to work

[Redroger]

It worked for me Geoff, unusual for that type of thing to work on any of my systems. My guess is that the school has been demolished and replaced by the new houses, but it would need a local person to confirm.

[Geoff-E]

My guess is that the school has been demolished and replaced by the new houses, but it would need a local person to confirm.

I think I've only ever set foot in Boston once, but it's quite apparent that the school is no longer there http://tinyurl.com/5tbwmdo

[pamthomas]

St Botolph's may have originally been called the National School.
Kelly's 1900 Lincolnshire directory says

"National (School), Pump Square (mixed), established in 1815 and rebuilt in 1849 in the Elizabethan style for 470 children; average attendance 402; Alfred James Clark, master; Miss Gertrude Teamby, infants' mistress."

In Kelly's 1926 Lincolnshire, the school is described as 'Church of England.... H G  Woods, master; Miss A Lewsley, infants' mistress'.

Not connected with the original query, but also possibly of interest is that Launchbury's cycle shop was previously the United Methodist Free Sunday School, established 1872. Stone tablet above the shop sign says it.
The Free Methodist Chapel itself, first erected in 1856, was re-fitted and had a new organ in 1906, and was then able to seat 450 people.

[Redroger]

It was shown as the National school on an 1889 map Pam, so I think that is proved. I guess it became known as St. Botolph's since it was possibly the closest school to the parish church (The Stump)

[leng50]

Took this pic of my old school in June 2009. If you zoom into the plaque you will see it closed in 1982 and was sadly demolished in 1992.

[Redroger]

As a CofE school it would have been associated with the parish church; Boston Stump.