St Patrick's RC Primary School

This single storey school building is first shown on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1897. It is constructed from red brick in English garden wall bond with stone window dressings. The buildings were sited on the southwest side of a plot facing onto Smith Street, with a wall dividing the yard, presumably into girls and boys sections. A pair of small ancillary buildings, possibly toilets, are shown on either side of the wall. 'Taking Stock' states that a 'school-chapel was established by 1875, possibly in existing houses in Brick Row, replaced by a purpose-built school-chapel in 1894'.
By the time of the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1920, Dinsdale Street had been laid out to the immediate southwest of the school and some terraced housing built. A small building labelled 'Inst.' had been built on the northeast side of the school plot, and St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery to the northwest (HER19080). Further additions were made to the school buildings during the 20th century. A stone plaque on the end of the northwest wing facing onto Smith Street commemorates the foundation stone being laid in 1926.