The history of Sunday school is a bit confusing. We are told that Robert Raikes (1735-1811) was the first person to set up an actual Sunday school in 1780 in Gloucester. He even has a statue in London on the Embankment commemorating that fact. But it is also written that a lady started a Sunday school earlier than Raikes. Her name was Hannah Moore and she began the school in her own home in 1769. Although she herself was a Methodist, she joined up with the local Parish Church and the children were taken there after they had finished having lessons at her house. They were taught religious instruction as well as being taught how to read and write. There is a window in the Town Hall in High Wycombe to commemorate her.