This was a school with strong SPCK connections founded by Mr Hall in 1707 in Cranage township (Holmes Chapel, in Sandbach parish), and it appears in some records as Holmes Chapel. It was free for 10 boys, and in 1712 Hall founded another school for 10 girls. Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 259; Robson, Education in Cheshire, passim; Ormerod, Cheshire, III.1, 129 (which confirms Cranage is the school which elsewhere appears as Holmes Chapel).