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Durnford School was an English preparatory school for boys which opened in 1894 on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. The school occupied Durnford House, in the High Street of the village of Langton Matravers near Swanage, and was notoriously spartan and uncomfortable.
Durnford School, Middleton, a two-star listed building by Edgar Wood and James Henry Sellers was demolished during the autumn of 2002. At the last moment, at the instigation of J.H.G. Archer, this bad loss to architecture in Lancashire was mitigated by the preparation of a set of record drawings.
The school opened in 1908 having been built to accommodate one thousand children. It was a remarkable structure with definite Frank Lloyd Wright features that, when it opened at the turn of the Twentieth Centrury, must have been regarded as quite revolutionary and completely different from any other school built in the area.
Durnford Street school, completed in 1910 to designs drawn up in 1908, was built on a corner site bounded by Durnford Street on the south and Rectory Street on the east.
The school was founded in 1906 by Rex Corbett, an ex-England football player, and started with ten pupils in a building that was formerly a brewery. Tom Pellatt, his brother-in-law who ran Durnford School at Durnford Court in the same village had blasted out a swimming bath in the rocks at Dancing Ledge , a mile and a half away on ...
A National School opened in 1844 at Netton, by the turning for High Post, and was rebuilt in 1872. Attendance declined in the 20th century and the school closed in 1975. There was a small 19th-century school at Great Durnford, near the entrance to the Manor House.
Durnford School was an English preparatory school for boys which opened in 1894 on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.
