Chelmsford School of Art

In 1893, the first introduction of Further Education in Chelmsford, Essex. It was organised by Charles Henry Baskett and attended by approximately fifty students. By the turn of the century, the number of students had grown to around three hundred and larger premises were needed. Plans were created for a new premises in Market Road. The Nobel Prize winning physicist John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919) laid the foundation stone of the first purpose-built buildings for Further Education, in December 1904 and the new premises opened on 2 October 1905. The building housed not only a library but also the new Chelmsford School of Science and Art with Charles Baskett as the first Headmaster.

In 1928, proposals were drawn up to reorganise the School and plan a new building and in 1931, a new science block, was opened. The original building continued to be used for art studies. Further reorganisation occurred in 1935 when the School was renamed The Mid-Essex Technical College and School of Art, a title that remained until 1976. In 1976, the 'Mid-Essex Tech' merged with Brentwood College of Education to form the Chelmer Institute of Higher Education and in 1984 it was again renamed The Essex Institute of Higher Education which in 1989, merged with the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology to form the Anglia Higher Education College. In 1991, it adopted the title Anglia Polytechnic, and in June 1992, it became the Anglia Polytechnic University.

'The Arrow'. was a magazine published by Chelmsford School of Art in December 1912. It is not known if further editions were published.