IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/224
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PROTESTANT DISSENTERS' CHARITY SCHOOL, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE
Date(s): 1804-1830
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 production units.
Name of creator(s): Protestant Dissenters' Charity School | City of London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The school was established in October 1717 by voluntary subscription for children (boys and girls) of protestant dissenters of all denominations, in Bartholomew Court in the parish of St Bartholomew the Great. By 1834 it had moved to Jewin Street, also in the City of London.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Protestant Dissenters' Charity School records comprising minutes, accounts and a list of pupils. They were catalogued by a member of the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Three items in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records of the school were deposited with the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1948, with the records of St James Garlickhithe and united parishes. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
For a short history of the school, see Charity Commissioners Report, vol.1, p.169 (1819).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.