REIGATE SCHOOL OF ART

1895 - ?

Reigate School of Art and Design

Founded in 1895, the Reigate and Redhill School of Arts and Crafts was first housed in the Technical Institute at the bottom of Redstone Hill, Redhill, the headmaster was Alfred James Collister (1869-1964). In 1937 the School re-located to 'Chilterns' Blackborough Road, Reigate, the house was adapted for £5,210 plus £500 for furniture and equipment. In the following year Redhill Art Classes become Reigate and Redhill School of Arts and Crafts. Owing to growth in student numbers, new classrooms were needed at the Blackborough Road site and around 1963 a three-storey block housing printing, graphic design, surface decoration, textile and printmaking departments was built to the North of the old building. In 1983 the school ceased to become an independent body and was incorporated into East Surrey College Redhill Technical College and in 2003 the college was closed and demolished for housing development, a new college with more modern facilities being established on the campus of East Surrey College in Redhill and was renamed Reigate School of Art, Design and Media and in 2010 the new state-of-the-art East Surrey College building was completed. In 2015 the Reigate School of Art, Design and Media becomes Reigate School of Art and in 2019 East Surrey College, incorporating Reigate School of Art, formally merged with John Ruskin College to form the College Group: Orbital South Colleges. Reigate College, Castlefield Road, Reigate. Ernest Boye Uden was a teacher at Reigate and Suffolk artists who studied at Reigate included John Astle, John Collingwood Bacon, Beryl Alice Matchwick, Cathie Shuttleworth and Jan Smail.
Website: https://www.esc.ac.uk/reigate-school-of-art