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Bideford Art School

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22: 161: 61: 72:. The builder and architect was George Malam Wilson (1855-1917) of Bideford. Built of red brick with a slate roof and parapeted gable ends, the building is on an L-shaped plan with the former classrooms to the north and east and the main entrance on the south side opening onto a small courtyard with the original office/Master's house. 80:
saw the opening of numerous museums, art galleries and technical colleges for the improvement of the public. Possibly because of its location as a place where artists met and worked, the technical college at Bideford evolved into a specialist art school where students were able to access excellent
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It opened in 1896 as a technical college as attested by the large plaque on the side of the building which mentions Henry Ascott, then Mayor of Bideford, together with Alderman John Whitlock Narroway, who was involved with opening Bideford Library. The drive for ‘municipal socialising’ during the
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taught here early in his career. In the 1950s under the direction of Jim Paterson the art school at Bideford became well known for its training in pottery.
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In the 1970s the Art School became a general further education college at which time art education became centred at North Devon College in nearby
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from 1896 until the 1970s. Located on The Quay, today the building is used as Bideford Arts Centre and has been a
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teaching in small groups before moving on for further training at larger art schools elsewhere.
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Bideford Art School - Artist Biographies: British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century
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Rear view of Bideford Art School showing the windows of the art studios
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and Sheila Hutchinson; their work is part of the nearby
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England's Schools: History, architecture and adaptation
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art school
Bideford
Devon
Grade II listed
Historic England

listed building
Queen Victoria
Allin Braund
Hornsey School of Art
Judith Ackland
Burton at Bideford
Rosemary Sutcliff
The Eagle of the Ninth
Leslie Worth
Royal Watercolour Society
George Belcher
Bertram Prance
Punch
Leslie Davenport
Barnstaple
Petroc College

Judith Ackland
George Belcher
Allin Braund
Bertram Prance
Frank Southgate
Rosemary Sutcliff

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