Catalogue description THE KING'S SCHOOL, MACCLESFIELD

Governors

SP 3/1 Minutes, general 1630 - 1930.

SP 3/2 Minutes, special committees 1852 - 1927.

SP 3/3 Papers relating to minutes and meetings 1692 - 1922.

SP 3/4 Appointments of governors and related papers 1558 - 1704.

SP 3/5 Resignations 1663 - 1849.

SP 3/6 Charitable Trusts 1854 - 1969.

SP 3/7 Litigation 1542 - 1854.

SP 3/8 Financial, account books 1763 - 1932.

SP 3/9 Financial, ledgers 1880 - 1933.

SP 3/11 School buildings 1829 - 1961.

SP 3/12 Copy Acts of Parliament 1774 - 1848.

SP 3/13 Various 1681 - 1958.

Endowments

SP 3/14 Foundation deeds including copies 1503 - early 19c.

SP 3/15 Title deeds, Macclesfield 1544 - 1965.

SP 3/16 Title deeds, Upton 1686 - 1906.

SP 3/17 Title deeds, Chester 1702 - 1906.

SP 3/18 Title deeds, other 1730 - 1936.

SP 3/19 Leases, Macclesfield 1546 - 1966.

SP 3/20 Leases, Chester 1553 - 1768.

SP 3/21 Leases, Mottram St. Andrew 1572 - 1860.

SP 3/22 Leases, Nantwich 1629 - 1706.

SP 3/23 Estate papers and correspondence 1650 - 1966.

SP 3/24 Surveys, valuations and plans 1659 - 1846.

Headmaster

SP 3/25 Copy Admission registers 1901 - 1921.

SP 3/26 Papers relating to appointments of masters 1554 - 1969.

SP 3/27 Other papers relating to masters 1845 - 1931, n.d

Records of the land agent to the school, W J Trotter, which include plans of the school buildings and properties, 1774 - 1912, are available under the reference DDX528/6-8.

For a detailed history of the school, see G E Wilson's "History of Macclesfield Grammar School, 1503-1890" M.Ed. thesis, Leeds, 1952

The original charters and related documents (see SP 3/14/2-7) have been retained at the school for permanent exhibition.

King's School, Macclesfield, Cheshire

Some records are subject to restrictions

Access restrictions apply

The records Acc. 2716 were deposited by Mr D O Smith, Bursar in March 1980, in ten boxes.

The bundle has generally been retained as a convenient unit. A number of leases will therefore be found amongst the sections on title deeds, SP 3/15 - /18.

• Macclesfield, Cheshire

This school was founded in 1503 as Macclesfield Grammar School by Sir John Percival, lord mayor of London in 1498-99. The priest-schoolmaster and free school were to be maintained by an original endowment of £10 a year and seventeen feoffees were appointed, all local gentry.

The school was affected by the Chantries Act between 1547 and 1552 when it was refounded by royal charter and acquired a further endowment of £10 from lands of the dissolved college of St. John the Baptist in Chester. A corporate body of governors was formed with powers to nominate masters, decide salaries and make regulations.

Several sites have been used - the original one near the parish church, the former house of Sir John Davenport on Back Street from 1748 and at Cumberland St from 1856. A modern school was opened in 1844 and a charity commission scheme of 1879 led to some integration of the two establishments and reformed the governing body. A general expansion of the school followed.

In 1909 another scheme arranged for the merging of the modern and grammar schools which were now called the King's School, Macclesfield. New extensions were added in the 1930's; in 1938 King's became a public school and after the 1944 Education Act, Cheshire County Council supported local boys' places. Local authority representation was increased by a new scheme of 1958 amended 1967 and 1974

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