The school where the Brontë sisters worked will be restored

The school where the Brontë sisters worked as teachers was built nearly two centuries ago by the famous sisters' clergy father, Patrick Brontë. Now a 100.000 pound project has just started with the goal of restoring the school, which is 184 years old, where Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë all worked as teachers.

The school, called Old School Room (in Spanish, Old School Room), is a building built in Haworth, located on East Yorkside, a town where the Brontë sisters wrote some of the books most loved by their audiences, including among them Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildeff Hall.

But after almost 200 years of its construction in the Pennine Valley, the years have begun to show in the historic building and Its Victorian-era roofs are starting to sag, being a restoration the only way to return the school to its place.

The renovation comes after eight years of fundraising by Brontë Spirit (in Spanish, The Brontë spirit), the charity dedicated to the repair and restoration of this property. About £ 70.000 came from the grant and nearly £ 30.000 has been raised from community funds.

The Rev. Peter Mayo-Smith, rector of the Haworth parish, said that once the property closed its custody they would be able to make improvements to other parts of the building that would also need renovation. For its part, he was delighted that the main part of the renovation is already underway.

"I congratulate the people of Brontë Spirit for the extremely hard work they have done to make this possible."

“This is excellent news. The Old School Room It is a very valuable building not only for Haworth, but also for the entire nation.. This is one of the properties whose construction manager was Patrick Brontë, the other construction was the church of San Gabriel located in Stanbury "

“Patrick was a great believer that education is a way out of poverty - something that is still very relevant today - and wanted all the children of factory workers in the area to have an education so they could escape the privatization that was around them "

The Old School Room was built by the Brontë sisters' father, Patrick Brontë, in 1832 and was expanded in 1850 and 1871. This building was replaced by a school in 1903 and was later used as a gym, a library, a youth hostel and even a billet army during WWII.

As part of the renovation, which is estimated to last approximately two and a half months, the roof will be fixed and six of the windows will be replaced with new wooden-framed replicas.