Records of Kennington National Schools, later St Mark, Kennington Schools

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Description Date Reference

Title Deeds 1805 - 1860 A/KNS/51-55

Management Committee 1824 - 1864 A/KNS/1-3

School Management 1826 - 1938 A/KNS/56-66

Financial records 1824 - 1950 A/KNS/4-17, 67-89

Log books 1862 - 1976 A/KNS/22-28

Report books and summary registers 1863 - 1910 A/KNS/29-36

Admission registers and related papers 1881 - 1968 A/KNS/38-50

School property 1862 - 1976 A/KNS/85-89

History of schools - A/KNS/121-122

<span class="wrapper"><p>For a detailed history of the school see The Education of the Poor: History of a National School, 1824-1974 by P and H Silver, 1974. A copy is held in the Greater London History Library (ref. 22.12 KEN).</p> <p>For a brief history of the school see Survey of London volume 26 pp. 25-27 (Greater London History Library ref. 86.1).</p></span>

• <corpname>Kennington National Schools</corpname>
• <corpname>Saint Mark Kennington Schools</corpname>

4 March 1979 (Ac 79.34) and on 24 February 1983 (Acc 1828)

The 1820s saw the foundation of two schools at the Oval, Kennington. After raising the necessary voluntary subscriptions, the boys' school opened at the end of 1824 and the girls' school in the spring of 1825. The name proposed for the schools was the Kennington and South Lambeth National School, but they were soon referred to as the National Schools or District Schools, even the Oval Schools. In reflection of the close links with St Mark's Church, the name was later changed to St Mark Kennington Schools. The school is now known as St Mark's CE Primary School.