| Administrative History | Chester School of Art was housed in the Grosvenor Museum from 1886, when the museum was built. It originated in a School of Art, established circa 1850, and in the School of Science, fostered by the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature and Art, founded by Canon Charles Kingsley in 1871. The Schools of Art and Science were amalgamated in 1886. Although the day technical school, founded at the museum in 1892, developed into the City and County School for Boys, and removed 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, opened in Eaton Road, Handbridge in 1956. Classes were held at the museum until circa 1960. |