Keswick School of Industrial Art

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. 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.

Keswick School of Industrial Art
Former building of the Keswick School of Industrial Art
Location
Coordinates54°36′17″N 3°08′41″W
Information
Established1884
FounderEdith and Hardwicke Rawnsley

The school closed in 1984 and the building became a restaurant.

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