Grammar School 1688-, Probus, Cornwall

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 In 1814, there were two schools in Probus, one of which was a
grammar school, founded by John Williams in 1688 and endowed
with a salary of £10 per year.   At first this was one of the more important
schools in Cornwall, but the salary offered was so small that it had
not been possible to maintain it as a grammar school; only reading,
writing and arithmetic were taught.   In 1745 the vicar had told the
Bishop that the money was then being applied to the poor.   Mrs. 
Hawkins made another endowment to provide a reading school.   At 
the beginning of this century were were three schools, the Church and
the Methodist Day Schools and Probus School.   Opened in 1871, the
Methodist School moved into new premises in 1902, and is the present
County Primary School. Probus School, which was part day, part
boarding, was designed by G. E. Street in 1852, but now lies empty,
awaiting a purchaser who is prepared to develop it, perhaps in an
entirely new direction.

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