The New School was designed to accommodate about 100 children and it was built in 1907. It was officially opened by Colonel George Dixon, Chairman of Cheshire County Council on 8th August, 1908. The first meeting of the managers of the new school took place in July, 1908. Mrs S E Greg was the chair and correspondent. She was the wife of Walter Greg who was the grandson of Samuel Greg who built Styal Mill. Mrs Greg was still correspondent of the school when she died in April, 1932. The first Headteacher of the New School was Mr Parkinson and the uncertified teachers were Miss M Smallwood of Macclesfield, Miss M Aldcroft of Bowden and Miss E Marshall of Stalybridge. The caretaker was Mrs Pearson. In 1909 a stained glass window, made and installed by Morris & Co the firm which William Morris the designer (famous for his association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement) founded in 1861, representing St Christopher carrying the Christ child was put in the Hall in memory of Mr Walter Greg of Lee Hall who had died in 1906.
Inscribed:recto lower right in black ink: "RETURN TO MORRIS + CO, / MERTON ABBEY/ Surrey." recto lower right in pencil by SB: "238-1909" verso upper right in pencil: "PRESTBURY (ches) 1/2" verso lower right in pencil by SB: "pg 238 Jan 29, 1909/ Des. by Ford Maddox Brown/ Mr Titcomb/ Mr Deerle/ Mr Weston." verso left side in pencil by sep hand: "Double Borden/ Raise Nimbus + ?/ the top."
A photograph of an adaptation of Burne-Jones's original cartoon of St Christopher for All Saints Church, Wigan (1868), omitting the background figure, made ten years after Burne-Jones's death c.1909 is held in the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens - (The Huntington Acc no 2000.5.2229.) The present scale drawing made for Mottram St Andrew's Village School, which was sent for approval is inscribed "From Ford Maddox Brown's design by Deerle..." (Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens - The Huntington Acc no 2000.5.1370) as Sewter observes " it is odd to note that B J's St Christopher by this time, even in the Morris firm itself, to FMB," (Vol 2 p 138)