Catalogue description St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity records

The property records are composed of deeds and correspondence files and refer to a geographical area centered on High Holborn.

SCHEMES OF MANAGEMENT

TRUSTEES' AND MANAGERS' RECORDS

Trustees', managers' and committee minutes

Trustees' and managers' administrative records

Trustees' and managers' financial records

ST CLEMENT DANES SAVINGS BANK

ALMSHOUSES

APPRENTICESHIP

LEGAL PAPERS

Legal case of Attorney General v Bovill

WAR DAMAGE

GOVERNORS' AND SCHOOL RECORDS

Educational Endowment Trust Governors minutes

Governors' minutes

Governors' administrative records

Governors' financial records

Letter books of the Clerk to the Governors

London County Council papers

Holborn Estate Grammar School

Holborn Estate Girls School

School staff records

WESTMINSTER AMALGAMATED CHARITIES

Trustees' and committee minutes

Administrative records

Financial records

Drury Lane Public Dispensary Fund

Earl Craven Pest House Charity

Louie and Cecilia Holiday Fund

Louie and Cecilia Holiday Home

Louie Pennington Bickford Flower Girls Fund

St Henry Convalescent Fund

Westminster Philanthropic Society

PROPERTY RECORDS

Indentures

General development files

Craven Hill and Craven Mews

Dane Street

Eagle Street

Holborn Kingsway intersection

High Holborn property

Index to property records

The records have been divided into separate volume and box sequences. The sequences have been sub-divided into the records of the Trustees, Governors, the Wesminster Amalgamated Charities and a property section.

Introduction

The records of the Holborn Estate Charity were deposited on permanent loan in October 1989 by the Trustees of the Charity. Also deposited were the records of the Westminster Amalgamated Charities established in 1961 and those of its constituent charities prior to amalgamation; Jonathon Barlow's Charity, Drury Lane Public Dispensary, Louie and Cecilia Holiday Fund, Louie Pennington Bickford Flower Girl's Fund, Albert Reitlinger's Charity, St Henry Convalescent Fund and Westminster General Aid in Sickness Charity (formerly Westminster General Dispensary).

Many records relating to the Charity have been deposited in separate accessions, details of which have been included together with a list of related material in the Local History Collection.

St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity

Records are available only with written permission of the Clerk and Chief Executive, St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity, School House, Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5SU.

Records were deposited on permanent loan by Mr P Bircher, Clerk to the Trustees, St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity, 4/5 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE in August 1989.

The Holborn Estate Charity was founded in 1552 as a parish charity when the Churchwardens of St Clement Danes purchased some property on the north side of High Holborn for the sum of £160. The income derived from this property was used to distribute alms amongst the poor people of the parish. As the charity grew the scope of its activities widened. In 1844 the Trustees were granted the authority to establish new schools for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parish. The Trustees decided to establish a Boys Grammar School and a Middle Class Girls School in Houghton Street. The schools were opened in 1862 but subsequently the Girls School was forced to close in 1916 and the Boys School relocated to Ducane Road in Hammersmith. The school was re-established at Chorleywood in Hertfordshire in 1975.

A number of almshouses were acquired by the Trustees c 1700 on a site now occupied by the Law Courts. However, in the 1840's the Trustees decided to build a block containing forty almshouses, with a Chapel, bath house and laundry in Garratt Lane, Tooting in south-west London. By the 1960's the need for modernisation compelled the Trustees to erect forty-six self-contained flats at Sydenham Hill between 1967-1969.

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