| Keswick School of Industrial Art | |
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 Former building of the Keswick School of Industrial Art | |
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| Coordinates | 54°36′17″N 3°08′41″W / 54.60472°N 3.14472°W |
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| Established | 1884 |
| Founder | Edith and Hardwicke Rawnsley |
Keswick School of Industrial Art (KSIA) (sometimes Keswick School of Industrial Arts) was founded in 1884 by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and his wife Edith as an evening class in woodwork and repoussé metalwork at the Crosthwaite Parish Rooms, in Keswick, Cumbria.[1] The enterprise, designed to alleviate unemployment, prospered, and within ten years more than a hundred men were attending classes. A new building was erected for the school at a nearby site.
The school closed in 1984 and the building became a restaurant.
- ^ Bott, p. 117