I am sure every one interested in Kensington will feel grateful to Mr. Wright for kindly giving us such full and accurate information, which probably no other man now living could have supplied.
Exactly according to Mr. Wright’s recollection I find an order of the Charity Commissioners dated the 15th December, 1874, sanctioning the sale of the school site to the Vestry of Kensington for a sum of not less than £7,100.
This sale was effected, and upon the site was erected the new Town Hall, which we of this generation admire as much as our forefathers did, Sir John Vanbrugh’s school, and we are conceited enough to believe with far more reason.
The schools are now regulated, like most of the other charities, by an order of the Charity Commissioners, dated the 13th August, 1875.
That order contains a schedule of the property possessed at the date by the Charity, and it then consisted of:—
The sites of 3, 4, 5, and 6, Church Court, [17a] forming the site of the proposed new schools for boys and infants, and also the school buildings and site adjoining the girls’ schools.
A sum of £7,543 consols standing in the names of the official trustees of charitable funds.
The leasehold houses bequeathed by Roger Pimble, being Nos. 51 and 53, High Street, held from Brazenose College, Oxford, for twenty-one years, from Lady Day, 1864, at £4, and underlet at £220 per annum.
Five-eighths of the rent of the “Goat” public house, from Catherine Dicken’s bequest.
The Millington land at Acton, being 5a. 0r. 7p. copyhold [17b] of the Manor of Acton, let at £20 per annum.