CHICHESTER: Blue Gown Girls School

Please note that the items originally give the references E/35B/1/1 and E/35B/12/1 are now E/35S/1/1 and E/35S/12/1 respectively.

<span class="wrapper"><p>(See also E/35A, E/35M, E/35R, E/35S)</p> <p>Documents in other West Sussex Record Office Collections</p> <p>Cap. V/11/1 1 roll</p> <p>List of 44 subscribers, with a further 19 added in a different hand c.1730 - c.1756</p> <p>Cap. V/11/2 1 roll</p> <p>List of 33 subscribers, with a further 30 added in a different hand and dated 1730-1756</p> <p>[The names are not in the same order as V/11/1 above.]</p></span>

For records of the Gray Coat School see E/35R, and for notes on the later history of the endowments see E/35A/8/1.

Two charity schools, the Blue Gown (for 22 poor girls), and the Gray Coat (for 22 poor boys) were established in Chichester by public subscription in 1710. Their endowments were later supplemented by legacies from Bishop Manningham, 1722, and George Sedgwick, 1785. The schools closed in the nineteenth century and the endowments were used towards the clothing and education of children at the Church Schools in the city.

The records were deposited Cuthbert Dalby, Esq., correspondent to the Central Schools managers, 12 St. John's St., Chichester, January 1952.