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CRIPPLEGATE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/214

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CRIPPLEGATE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

Date(s): 1710-1976

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 50 production units.

Name of creator(s): Cripplegate Schools Foundation

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Cripplegate Schools Foundation was constituted by a Board of Education scheme on 30 December 1904 to administer the Red Cross Street Boys' School and Lady Holles School for Girls. A school for 100 boys was first opened in White Cross Street in 1698, later moving to Glovers' Hall and Barbican. In 1709 a plot of land in Red Cross Street was purchased with a bequest from Thomas Moore and a new school was built there. Part of the premises was leased to the trustees of Lady Holles' School, which had been established in 1711 for the education of 50 girls. The Boys' School remained in Red Cross Street until 1864, when it moved to Bridgewater Square. Lady Holles School relocated to Hackney in 1878. Its current premises, at Hampton in Middlesex, opened in 1935.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The records of the Cripplegate Schools Foundation comprise minutes 1905-69 (Ms 6473-A, 35827); agendas 1915, 1929-32 (Ms 6473B) and financial records 1906-76 (Ms 20089, 35828-9). Ms 20087 includes particulars of the Foundation's constitution with list of meetings c 1951.

Records of the Red Cross Street Boys' School comprise a history of its foundation 1690-1749, which includes a list of pupils 1707-48 (Ms 75A); minutes 1809-1905 and agendas 1842-65 (Mss 6475-6); logbooks 1877-1904 (Ms 6477) and treasurers' accounts 1714-1868 (Ms 7029).

Records of Lady Holles School comprise minutes 1726-1904 (Mss 6473-4), treasurers' ledger and accounts 1710-1803, 1844-79 (Mss 10885, 20082-3). There are also some references to this school in Ms 75A. Mss 9412-3 comprise records relating to properties held by the trustees of the two schools, 1727-1853.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.

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 depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

With the exception of Mss 6473A-B and 35827-9, the records of the Cripplegate Schools Foundation and its predecessors were originally catalogued as part of the archive of the parish of St Giles Cripplegate. Mss 6473A-B and 35827-9 were catalogued under the name Cripplegate Schools Foundation. In 2007, all material was re-catalogued under this name.

Immediate source of acquisition:

These records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by the Foundation, by representatives of Lady Eleanor Holles School, and others, in 1951 and later. They were catalogued at various dates by members of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

P69/GIS for records of St Giles Cripplegate.

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Educational finance | Economics of education
Educational foundations | Educational administrative structure | Educational organizations
School governors | People by roles | People
School log books | Education records | Documents | Information sources

Personal names

Corporate names
Cripplegate Schools Foundation
Lady Holles School for Girls
Red Cross Street Boys' School

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe