EDUCATION.
In 1662 Ephraim Rice was described as schoolmaster of Saul; (fn. 56) a public school at
Fretherne in 1678 is mentioned above. (fn. 57) There was
said to be no school at Fretherne in 1818 and 1833, (fn. 58)
though in 1825 there were 40 Sunday school
pupils. (fn. 59) A site for Fretherne National school was
acquired in 1837; (fn. 60) although it was in Fretherne
parish, the school was in Saul village, opposite Saul
church and Saul National school. (fn. 61) The two schools
coexisted, apparently independent of each other.
Fretherne National school received a building grant
before 1839; (fn. 62) the school building survived in 1967
as a brick house, different from the other houses of
Saul village in being a low, gabled house with
mullioned windows. In 1846 there were 18 boys and
28 girls. (fn. 63) The school was moved in 1873 (fn. 64) to a new
building 700 yds. north of Fretherne church; it was
maintained largely by the rector, who appears to
have provided the Gothic school building. Attendance was 22 in 1909, when the rector and Sir
Lionel Darell provided wholly for it; (fn. 65) it was closed
c. 1910, (fn. 66) and became a private house called the
Anchorage. (fn. 67)
Saul National school was later said to have been
established and built in 1814, (fn. 68) but in 1818, when
there was a Sunday school with 100 children, it was
reported that a large school-house on the National
plan was then being built by R. B. Cooper. (fn. 69) There
were 30 children at school in 1825, (fn. 70) but in 1833
Saul was said to have only a Sunday school with 70
and Sunday school had 88 children; (fn. 72) the building,
north-west of the church, (fn. 73) comprised a schoolroom
and two cottages of which the rents provided part
of the school's income. There were only 30 children
attending by day in 1877, but there was a nightschool two evenings a week. (fn. 74) Attendance had
increased to 86 by 1904, when the school was called
Fretherne with Saul National school, (fn. 75) and was 79
in 1936. (fn. 76) After the closure of the former British
school, the Church of England school became the
only one in the parish; the cottages adjoining the
school became classrooms, a prefabricated building
was added, and in 1967 attendance was 86. The
older children then went to school at Stroud and
Quedgeley. (fn. 77)
The British school, which was known as Framilode
British school in 1855, when it had 122 children, (fn. 78)
and as the Saul Scriptural Knowledge Institution or
Saul British school in 1878, was established in 1845
and the school-house built in 1847. Attendance was
70 in 1878, but it may have increased when a second
classroom was added c. 1880. The school was
undenominational (fn. 79) and had an attendance of 105
in 1904, when it was called the Fretherne with Saul
British school. (fn. 80) Later it was called the Fretherne
with Saul Undenominational school until 1921, when
it became a council school. (fn. 81) Attendance was 97 in
1936, (fn. 82) and the school was closed in 1950. (fn. 83) The
plain brick building in Moor Street was used as a
garage in 1967.
Framilode National school was built in 1854, (fn. 84)
enlarged in 1860, (fn. 85) and closed c. 1895. (fn. 86) Attendance
was 50 in 1869 (fn. 87) and 57 in 1889. (fn. 88) The building,
immediately south of Framilode church with a
teacher's house built in 1857 (fn. 89) beside it, was used
for a Sunday school up to 1923 (fn. 90) and for a church
hall in 1967.