CHICHESTER: St. Pancras Elizabeth Johnstones' Girls' School

<span class="wrapper"><p>Documents in other West Sussex Record Office collections</p> <p>Par 42/25/9 Copy of declaration of trust dated 9 Jan. 1862 by Margaret Johnson (sic) of Chichester, spinster, relating to the transfer of ,1000 in East India 5% stock to endow, according to the wish of her late sister, Elizabeth Johnston, a school for girls in the parish of St. Pancras; with an extract from Margaret Johnston's will, proved May 1876, transfer certificate for stock, July 1876, and covering letters from the Charity Commissioners. (5 docs.)</p> <p>Par 42/25/10 Correspondence relating to a proposed site for the Elizabeth Johnston Girls' School, Sept. - Dec. 1867. (6 docs.)</p> <p>Par 42/25/11 Official and other correspondence and papers relating to the Elizabeth Johnson School, Feb. 1880 - June 1934. (54 docs)</p> <p>Par 42/25/12 Agreement, for the foundation of a good conduct prize in Elizabeth Johnston's Girls' School as a Memorial to the Rev. George Cavill, and Certificate for ,23. 9s. 8d. Consolidated Stock, the endowment of the prize, Jan. 1894. (2 docs.)</p> <p>Par 42/25/13 Deeds, with abstract of title reciting 1858-1874, of the site of the Elizabeth Johnston School on the western corner of St. Pancras and New Park Road, Chichester, 1875-1882. The latest deed is endorsed with a memorandum of 25/17 below. (4 docs.) [Now in the custody of Messrs. Thomas Eggar &amp; Son, Brighton.]</p> <p>Par 42/25/14 Accounts for the Elizabeth Johnston School Building Fund, (1881-1882</p> <p>Par 42/25/15 Bank Book for the Elizabeth Johnston School Building Fund, in account with Messrs. Dendy, Halsted and Gruggen, Chichester, April 1881 - July 1882</p> <p>Par 42/25/16 Minutes of the Elizabeth Johnston School Committee, February 1883 - November 1903. (Black rexine; 3Off. used)</p> <p>Par 42/25/17 Conveyance of part of the site of the former school by the Rector and Churchwardens of St. Pancras to the Mayor, Alderman and Citizens of Chichester, for the purpose of widening the south end of New Park Road, 12 October 1951, with related correspondence, August 1950 - November 1951. (6 docs.)</p> <p>Add.Mss. 22,235- Deeds of the Elizabeth Johnston's Girls School, St. Pancras, Chichester, 22,238 on a site which was described as a messuage and appurtenances in St.Pancras, adjoining the Road (where was formerly a stile) abutting St. Michael's churchyard to N. and the highway to S. 1875-1882. (4 docs.)</p> <p>MP 2805 Newspaper cuttings relating to the life and work of Miss Lizzie Cutten, pupil teacher at the Elizabeth Johnston School, and later member of the National Federation of Women Teachers, 22 November 1888 - 9 January 1920. Photocopies. Mounted. (2 pp.)</p></span>

Deposited by the County Education Department, April 1953.

Miss Elizabeth Johnstone left a legacy of ,1000 to endow a Girls' School in St. Pancras; the Declaration of Trusts was signed in 1861, but the actual school, owing to difficulties in finding a site, was not opened until 1882 on the corner of St. Pancras and New Park Road. Like the Infants' School, the Girls' School was closed in 1933, when the pupils were transferred to the Central and Lancastrian Schools.

Add. Mss. 22,235 - 22,238 were transferred from the West Sussex County Council Modern Records Centre, on the 19th of July 1979. (Formerly D 7287).