Chelsea in the olden & present times / by George Bryan.

  • Bryan, George.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chelsea in the olden & present times / by George Bryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A great part of the cost of these extensive and essential alterations was contributed by the Trustees for building the new St. Luke’s Church ; a very large portion by the liberal contributions of the congregation, and a part also by the Rev. Mr. Davies’s otvn friends not connected with the church, and others to whom he applied. The schools, as will be seen, have been greatly benefitted, and various charitable societies established, by which means vast blessings have been conferred on the poor in the neighbourhood. PETYT’S SCHOOL ROOM AND VESTRY. In the year 1706, a Vestry Room and School Room, with apartments for a master, Avere erected at the expense of W. Petyt, Esq.” * There is a descriptive inscription upon the Avest front of the school room, Avhich records the donation, at the conclusion of Avhich it is added, “ To all. which may God give a blessing. Soli Deo Gloria.” The original deed of gift is entered in the Vestry minutes. Mr. Petyt resided in Church (lane) Street, and died there in 1707, aged 71, but Avas buried in the Temple Church. He Avas a member of the Inner Temple, and Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London. In 1819 there Avere 100 boys and girls educated and clothed free of any expense to their parents. The girls at that period were instructed in a house rented in Lordship’s Place, near Cheyne Roav. These schools, Avith the master and mistress, Avere transferred to the neAV School Rooms, at the back of the present Parish Church. The Rev. Mr. Davies recently appealed to the Vestry for a grant of ;^ioo to make considerable repairs in this old building, it being in a most dilapidated condition (the ground floor, Avhich Avas the Vestry Room, Avas for some time previously used as a fire-engine station), and the one school room altogether inadequate for the proper accommodation of the children of the district, promising himself to be answerable for the deficiency in the amount of the expenditure. The Vestry, in con- • Fruui Dr. King's MSS. it appears there had been a Clerk’s house and Bchool-rooms on this site previous to the erection of the present buildiuj},