Catalogue description AUDLEM FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of SL1
Reference: SL1
Title: AUDLEM FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Description:

SUMMARY

 

SL1/1-14 Documents relating to endowment, regulations and masters. 1642-1698.

 

SL1/15-20 Title deeds of site. 1648-1652.

 

SL1/21-64 Title deeds of rent-charge on lands in Coole Lane. 1574-1653.

 

SL1/65-151 Accounts. 1647-1659.

 

SL1/152-162 Building agreements and plans. 1647-1655.

 

SL1/163,164 Labels. 19th cent.

 

SL1/165-167 Bread charity. 1646-1648
Date: 1574 - 1698
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Audlem Free Grammar School
Physical description: 167 Files
Access conditions:

ACCESS 50 YRS RESTRICTED

 

These records are subject to access restrictions
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc. 108

 

Deposited by the Director of Education in January 1952.
Custodial history:

The records were found in the school building, then used as Audlem County Secondary School (for whose records see SL14).
Subjects:
  • Audlem, Cheshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The Grammar School was founded by Thomas Gamull of London by will, dated 20 Jan.1642/3, and was built, 1652-1655. The school suffered many changes of use in the late 19th cent. and was finally closed under a Charity Commissioners' scheme, dated 26 Sep.1908. The premises were subsequently vested in Cheshire County Council and reopened as Audlem Senior Mixed Council School in 1913. For a history of the school see B. C. Redwood, 'Audlem Free Grammar School', Chester Arch. Soc. Journal, volume 51, pp.31-53

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