Longton School of Art
Foundation date: 1899
Active: 1899 - 1952
Function: Art school
Policy: The 1925 'Report of Inspection of Stoke-on-Trent Schools of Art' describes the relationship between the school and the local industry: 'The principal aim of the various Schools is to provide courses of instruction suited to the needs of those engaged in the pottery industry'. Two firms [not named] paid the fees of three students to attend the school [summary, p. 2]. The report describes 'the accomodation for the Longton and Tunstall Branch Schools' as being 'quite good' and states that 'the Modelling room at Longton is probably as good as that at Burslem'; it continues: 'Unfortunately these premises are at the extreem ends of the area, and therefore unsuitable for any centralisation of classes, though they serve a useful purpose' [summary, p. 3].
In the 'Schools of Art Prospectus' (1938-39) Longton is listed as the 'Preparatory Art Training' school [p. 7]; classes included modelling, design and pottery etc. [p. 18].
It was agreed in a report on 'Notes on recent proposals for re-organisation for the Stoke-on-Trent Art Schools' (1949) that Longton would receive modelling, pottery, decoration, woman's craft's, fabric printing, etc.'
Burslem and the local schools of art were amalgamated into the City of Stoke-on-Trent College of Art in 1952 [see Warrillow (1960), p. 289].
Employees, Students & Members
Numbers: 65
Numbers: 123
Period Start: 1924
Period End: 1925
Locations
Located at Sunderland Institute Longton England | View on map
1899
Located at Sutherland Institute Longton England | View on map
1938 (Presumed) - 1939 (Presumed)
Institutional and Business Connections
Associated with Burslem School of Art
1919 (Presumed) - 1926 (Presumed)
Longton is listed as a branch school of Burslem School of Art [Report of Inspection of Stoke-on-Trent Schools of Art' (1925), p. 1].
Associated People
Assistant teachers included Sidney Keates Cope
1899 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30.
Assistant teachers included James A. Lovatt
1899 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30.
Principals included W. Morse
1899 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30. See 'Year's Art' 1914 ,p. 254.
Principals included Arthur Ewart Barnett
1938 (Presumed) - 1939 (Presumed)
Listed as 'Master in Charge' of Longton School of Art [see 'Schools of Art Prospectus' (1938-39), p. 5].
Students included Nora Howley
1942 (Presumed)
Teachers included Harold Holdcroft
1944 (Circa) - 1948 (Circa)
Listed as 'Master' of Longton School of Art. See Haggar, (1953), p. 43.
Teachers of modeling included Eric Owen
1938 (Presumed) - 1939 (Presumed)
Listed as a tutor of 'modelling' at Longton School of Art [see 'Schools of Art Prospectus' (1938-39), p. 6].
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
pp. 29-30.
City of Stoke-on-Trent Education Committee, c. 1948 Stoke on Trent (formerly Burslem Art School) 1936-1955
1948 (Circa)
p. 1.
City of Stoke-on-Trent Schools of Art Prospectus, 1938-1939
12 September 1938
p. 4.
Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Staffordshire Artists, 1942
March 1942
p. 7.
Notes on recent proposals for re-organisation of the Stoke-on-Trent Art Schools, 26 March, 1949
26 March 1949
p. 1.
Citing this record
'Longton School of Art', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib4_1220443559, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
