Description: An appeal for the provision of an infants' schoolroom in Widcombe. Wishing to build a school in the railway arches that cross the parish, the acquisition of another site having failed. Of 5,000 people in the parish, 3,000 are poor, so the appeal is being made to the City. By Mourant Brock, Vicar of Lyncombe & Widcombe and Frederick Joyce, Curate of Lyncombe and Widcombe, St. Matthew's Church, October 1855.
It shows an image of the intended school by the railway arches.