This school appears under various descriptions in licences and other records: in 1686 it was recorded as a Free Grammar School. Gastrell in the early 1720s noted of Halton, 'Here is a School, but when and by whom founded is uncertain'. Master received a salary of £11/16/- per annum. It was evidently in existence by 1635, when John King, clerk, left £6 per annum to it. Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 359-60. the date when the school disappeared is also unknown.