I asked a friend who has done a great deal of work on local school plans.
Here is his answer:
The distinction between the schoolroom
and a classroom in Victorian schools is very clear. Most schools consisted
of two rooms - one very large with the master in charge (the schoolroom) and
a small room usually with a gallery normally occupied by the infants
(classroom). The government department published building regulations with
several plans of model schools for different numbers. These all use that
nomenclature.
Jane Howells
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Subject: Classrooms vs Schoolrooms
Old school plans often label some rooms as classrooms and others as
schoolrooms. What precisely was the distinction between these two terms?
Peter Higginbotham
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