Hailey, Oxfordshire - Delly Close - local postcard c.1980s

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    • Picture / Image:  Delly Close, Hailey, Oxfordshire
    • Publisher:  Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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^{Church of England parish church was built in 1761[2] and extended in 1830.[3] It was demolished and replaced by the present French Gothic style parish church of Saint John the Evangelist in 1866–69.[4] It was designed by the young Gothic Revival architect Clapton Crabb Rolfe, whose father Rev. George Crabb Rolfe was the perpetual curate.[4] The Oxford Diocesan Architect G.E. Street condemned Rolfe's first designs as ""needlessly eccentric"".[4] The completed church has a strangely shaped bell-turret.[4] The font, sited in the north aisle, is from the earlier Georgian parish church.[2]}

^{A Methodist chapel was built in 1908.[2] It is now a private house.[3]}

^{Hailey Primary School[5] was founded by the charitable bequest of a local farmer's widow, Joan Smith, in 1661.[6] It had 18 pupils in 1802, 28 in 1815 and 30 in 1835.[6] By the 1820s Joan Smith's endowment paid for the education of only 16 of the pupils, and the parents of the remainder had to pay fees.[6] In 1815 the school hoped to adopt the plan of the National Schools as soon as it could recruit a suitable teacher.[6]}

^{By 1847 the school had 45 pupils and was accommodated in a run-down cottage in the village.[6] John Williams Clinch of Witney, who was a banker and brewer, gave land next to the Lamb and Flag Inn on which to build a new school.[6] The architect was William Wilkinson of Witney, who was George Crabb Rolfe's brother-in-law.[6] The new building was completed in 1848 and had capacity for 79 pupils.[6]}

^{In 1876 the school had 73 pupils — close to full capacity — so before 1880 capacity was increased to 108.[6] By 1889 it had 107 pupils and needed to expand again.[6] School inspectors called for an infants' classroom, and this was added in 1892.[6] The architect was Clapton Crabb Rolfe, who had designed the parish church and was William Wilkinson's nephew.[6]}

^{Oxfordshire County Council took over the school in 1903 and reorganised it as a junior school in 1930.[6] Thereafter Hailey children of secondary school age went to Witney Central School.[6] The school in Hailey became Hailey C of E Voluntary Controlled School in 1978.[6]}