A Sunday School was begun in St Ebbe's parish in 1831. The success of this project led to the creation of a mixed day school and infant school in 1833. In 1846, at the formation of Holy Trinity parish, the St Ebbe's Parish School was divided. The part facing Friar Street was retained by St Ebbe's as a boys' school; that facing Blackfriars Road was given to Holy Trinity parish as a girls' school. It was intended to build a new girls' school attached to the proposed new St Ebbe's parsonage house, but the cost of the latter delayed the building of the school; it finally opened in Paradise Square in 1856. In 1871, the infants' school moved from Friars' Street to share premises with the girls' school. The two schools lived side by side until 1910, when the Paradise Square site became exclusively an infants' school. This date is given in the 'Victoria County History'. However, S200/2/A1/1 below has its last entry dated 2 Dec 1910, without any indication that the girls' school was about to close, so that the exact date of closure is not yet known. The south Oxford schools were reorganised in 1910 and the girls were presumably transferred to another school, such at the South Oxford Council School in Thames Street, built in 1910, or the Holy Trinity girls' school, which became a girls' school for the whole district in 1910. Plans for the girls and infants school site can be found with the infants schoolrecords at S200/3.
Bibliography: 'The Victoria County - Oxfordshire', Volume IV (the City of Oxford) (1976), pp. 449-450.
Catalogued by Robin Darwall-Smith, November 1993.