PROTESTANT DISSENTERS' CHARITY SCHOOL, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/224
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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

Related material:

Publication note:

For a short history of the school, see Charity Commissioners Report, vol.1, p.169 (1819).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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.