Lewes Borough Council: minutes of the management committee of the Lewes School of...

<p>For minutes of the Management Committee, 1867-1882 and 1903-1923, registers of pupils, 1868-1921 see R/C 4/11; for minutes and reports on grant, 1906-1908 see C/C 82/24; for prospectus, c1880 see DL/D 149/11, for 1884-1885 see XH 19 and for 1917-1918 see C/E 21/20; for accounts of the Jubilee Improvement Fund at Lewes School of Science and Art, 1890 see DL/D 149/12; for papers concerning Lewes Museum, including the closure of the School of Science and Art and the re-use in 1934 of its buildings for the museum, 1921-1957 see DL/D 144/14; for correspondence and papers concerning the closure of the school, 1926-1934, and a list of biological specimens, 1861 see R/L 26/1-5.</p>

The building, on the corner of Albion Street and Little East Street, was designed as a School of Art by Henry Card, the County Surveyor, in 1874 and the lamps on the steps were wrought in 1897 for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (C Brent Historic Lewes and its buildings (1995)). The School of Science and Art closed in 1934 and was subsequently used to house the Borough Museum until its closure and Lewes Library from 1955.