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Thanks to Jane and the other respondents to this query, although I'm not sure if this is the whole story. For example, the school plan on my web page at www.workhouses.org.uk/Oxford (not a typical school, admittedly) has classrooms and schoolrooms broadly of the same size, and also a separate infants room. I wondered whether formal lessons were perhaps carried out in the classroom, while the schoolroom was used to hold all the other children not being formally taught at that time? Peter Higginbotham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Howells" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:36 AM Subject: Re: Classrooms vs Schoolrooms > 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