Not a Seal, Medallion, Centenary of Sunday Schools, Robert Raikes, 1880

Not a Seal, Medallion, Centenary of Sunday Schools, Robert Raikes, 1880, Image & Found by Chris Tilney.
Found in northwest County Durham, ?mm.

Bust looking left, CENTENARY OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS 1880 curving down .ROBERT RAIKES. curving up around // group of adults & children, SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN / TO COME UNTO ME below

A medallion commemorating 100 years of Sunday schooling. See Robert Raikes, "Robert Raikes ("the Younger") (14 September 1736 – 5 April 1811) was an English philanthropist and Anglican layman, noted for his promotion of Sunday schools. Pre-dating state schooling and by 1831 schooling 1,250,000 children, they are seen as the first precursor schools of the English state school system."