All Saints Primary School, Gresford
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All Saints Primary School is a primary school in Gresford, Wales. It was built in memory of Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph, in 1874. It is a Grade II listed building.
All Saints Primary School was built in memory of Thomas Vowler Short.[1] The inscription above the school door says, "These school buildings were erected by relatives in affectionate memory of Thomas Vowler Short, Late Bishop of St Asaph. An earnest promoter of education who died at the vicarage in this parish April 13, 1872."
Thomas Vowler Short
Thomas Vowler Short was the Bishop of St Asaph between 1864 and his retirement in 1870.[2] He was a theologian who taught at Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he knew some of those later involved in the Oxford Movement, including his pupil Edward Pusey, the then student John Henry Newman, and his friend John Keble.[3] On 13 April 1872, he died at the Gresford Vicarage, the home of Archdeacon Wickham, his brother-in-law.[2]
