Catalogue description ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL (ADDITIONAL MATERIAL)

This collection of additional records is a useful complement to those which are already held at the Greater London Record Office. The original deposit of records for the school was made in 1961 and these were subsequently listed under the reference A/ATB/1-323. There were a fine series of title deeds, reports and accounts, including much material relating to the library.

Accession 2692 contains 486 items dating from 1963 to 1985 relating again to both school and library. Most important are the Trustees' and Governors' meetings minutes 1847 - 1953 (ref: Acc/2692/17-19). An unusual survival has been a number of evacuation records, which do not exist for many schools in London (ref: Acc/2692/142-148). Illustration of the school and its life are present in a volume of plans of the school site at Kennington Oval dated 1927 (by A.H.R. Tenison, Architect, ref: Acc/2692/154), and in the large collection of photographs (ref: Acc/2692/155-205). Concerning the sale of the library in 1861 is a Catalogue from Sotheby's which records the prices fetched at auction for individual books (ref: Acc/2692/209). A history of the school, not entirely accurate, was written in 1928 and a transcript survives (ref: Acc/2692/240).

Record contains:

Schemes and Parliamentary Acts,

Deeds

Minutes

Finance

Correspondence

Examiners' reports

Headmasters' reports

Papers and letters relating to School and Library

Building work

Record of boys, school work and functions

Evacuation records

Plans

Photographs

Printed material and

Letters and papers relating to Revd C.F. Milner.

Additional records deposited by the Governors of Archbishop Tenison's School, 55 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SR on 28 July 1987 (Acc/2483) and on 8 May 1989 (Acc/2692)

The Greater London Record Office has additional official records relating to which were created by the School Board for London and the London County Council Education Department, including subject and policy files 1871-1955 (ref: LCC/EO/PS/3/80-86. The office also holds the records of Archbishop Tenison's School for Girls, Lambeth High Street (ref: A/ATG/1-197) which had close relations with the boys' grammar school.

Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School

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