List of former schools in the City of London

This is a list of defunct educational establishments within the city boundary of London. It does not include institutions endowed by city businesses, livery companies or churches that had their boundary outside the square mile. Where no data could be found the box is left blank.

Name of school Pupil records Estate records Administrative records
Aldersgate Ward School of London[1] 1889–1940 1823–1951 1700–1951
Aldgate Ward School[2] 1800–1868 1723–1907
Castle Baynard Ward School[3] 1753–1835
City of London School Of Instruction and Industry, St James Dukes Place[4] 1807–1845 1824 1806–1846
Coleman Street Ward Schools[5] 1871–1917 1759–1913 1803–1939
Cordwainer and Bread Street Wards Charity School [6] 1715–1727
Cornhill and Lime Street Wards Charity School[7] 1849 1775–1818, 1872
Cripplegate within Ward Schools[8] 1823–1833 1784–1822 1712–1892
Dissenters' Charity School[9] 1807–1818 1804–1839
Farringdon within Ward Schools[10] 1756–1884
Joye's (Peter) Charity School, St Ann Blackfriars[11] 1705–1744 1611–1734 1707–1892
Neale's Mathematical School, St Dunstan in the West[12] 1931–1940 1924–1954
Queenhithe Ward School[13] 1847–1871
Ragged School Union[14] 1860
Ratcliff School, Ratcliff Highway[15] 1520–1607 1823–1889
St Andrew Undershaft School[16] 1634–1805
St Anne and St Agnes Charity School[17] 1770
St Bartholomew the Great Parochial School[18] 1867–1872 1627–1918 1728, 1780–1932
St Botolph Bishopsgate Parochial Charity School[19] 1758–1800
St Bride Fleet Street Parochial Charity School[20] 1865–1949
St Dunstan in the West Parochial Charity Schools[21] 1868–1940 1709–1934 1609, 1632, 1771–1949
St Giles Cripplegate Schools Foundation[22] 1707–1748 1527–1852 1690–1905
St Sepulchre Holborn Parochial Charity Schools[23] 1861–1924 1916 1700–1939
Tower Ward School[24] 1872–1882 1846–1884
Trotman's School, Bunhill Row[25] 1844–1999 1827–1979
Turner's Free School For Poor Boys[26] 1769–1979 1775–1835 1771–1990
Vintry Ward Charity School[27] 1842, 1900–1901 1730

References

  1. ^ Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section
  2. ^ British History Online
  3. ^ A thunderstorm in fiction and in fact. Tomlinson, C. Oxford Journals Notes and QueriesVolume s8-V, Number 113 Pp. 145
  4. ^ Universal Benefice enforced on the sublime principles of Divine Revelation De Coetlogon, C.E. Sermon preached at St Mary-at-Hill and St Andrew Hubbard for the benefit of the City of London School Of Instruction and Industry cited in The Gentleman’s magazine 1821
  5. ^ Old Bailey Proceedings Online, Trial of Robert Paterson, James Mace. (t17680907-30, 7 September 1768).
  6. ^ Harbens On-line Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Guildhall Manuscripts(Ibid)
  8. ^ GM
  9. ^ BHO-L Appendix Endowed charities
  10. ^ Amalgamated with Aldersgate Ward School, 1875.(Harbens, Ibid)
  11. ^ 'Seminarys of Faction and Rebellion': Jacobites, Whigs and the London Charity Schools, 1716-1724 Rose, C.The Historical Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 831-855
  12. ^ List of Grammar and Charity Schools Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ GM(Ibid)
  14. ^ History of Ragged Schools
  15. ^ Location
  16. ^ Church web site, history secrtion Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ GM(ibid)
  18. ^ web site[dead link‍][failed verification]
  19. ^ The City Parochial Charities: The "Dead Hand" in Late Victorian London Owen, D.The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May, 1962), pp. 115-135
  20. ^ BHOL(Ibid)
  21. ^ History of Church
  22. ^ Modern foundation Archived 2007-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Owen, D (Ibid)
  24. ^ British Library Cataloguing Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ Any answers
  26. ^ GM(Ibid)
  27. ^ "Letter of protest". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2007.