Records of the St Mary, Newington, Schools, and other records

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

ST MARY, NEWINGTON, SCHOOLS

MINUTE BOOKS

FOUNDATION MANAGERS' DECLARATION BOOK

ANNUAL REPORTS

RECORD BOOK

STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS

ACCOUNT BOOKS

RECEIPT BOOKS

OTHER FINANCIAL PAPERS

CORRESPONDENTS' LETTER-BOOKS

CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, ETC.: GENERAL

CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, ETC.: SCHOOL PROPERTY

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND RELATED PUBLICATIONS

ADMISSION REGISTERS

LOG BOOKS

VISITORS' BOOKS

PLANS

DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

MISCELLANEOUS

HOLY TRINITY, NEWINGTON, SCHOOLS

LOG BOOK

TIMETABLES

GUILD OF NAZARETH, ST MARY NEWINGTON

ROLL BOOK

GOVERNORS AND GUARDIANS OF THE POOR, ST MARY NEWINGTON

ACCOUNT BOOKS

MISSION CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, ST MARY NEWINGTON

PLANS

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC NOTICES AND MAP

<p>Other records of the day schools and the Sunday school are included amongst the records of the parish of St Mary Newington (see list P92/MRY).</p>

Deposited by the Rector of St Mary, Newington, on 21 July 1964 (Ac. 64.49); and by Messrs. George Thatcher & Son, 4 Brick Court, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4, on 4 October 1966 (Ac. 66.55)

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

St Mary's, Newington, Church of England School originated as a charity school for boys, founded in 1710. Girls were admitted from 1785. It became part of the United Parochial, National, Charity and Sunday Schools, St Mary Newington, in 1816, with the addition of an infants' school in 1851. Branch schools were opened in the districts of St Peter in 1839 and Trinity in 1841, and managed by the general committee for St Mary's Schools until the creation of separate district managements in 1846.

The day schools' main income from endowments, subscriptions, donations and children's 'school-pence' was augmented by various grants from central government during the nineteenth century. When a fee grant was introduced under the Elementary Education Act, 1891, the infants' school was made free. The school fees were abolished entirely in 1894.

In 1904, as a result of the Education Act of 1902 and the Education (London) Act of 1903, maintenance of the day schools was taken over by the London County Council, and management passed from the old committee of managers to a new body consisting of foundation managers and a representative of the metropolitan borough of Southwark. The schools continued as non-provided elementary day schools maintained by the Council.

In 1932, the boys', girls' and infants' schools were reorganised into infants' and senior mixed departments, juniors being accommodated in Newington Junior School, a temporary LCC elementary day school which was opened in that year in the adjacent Pastors' College. By 1947 St Mary's was both a primary and a secondary school. Aided status was awarded in 1951.

In 1953, the infants' department was closed and the school became purely a secondary modern. It was discontinued altogether in 1963 in the course of the reorganisation of voluntary schools in the area.