Title:
NEWPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LATER JOYCE FRANKLAND ACADEMY, NEWPORT
Level: Category
Charity records
Level: Fonds
NEWPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LATER JOYCE FRANKLAND ACADEMY, NEWPORT
Scope and Content:
Key to main classes of records:

Minute books
1744-1910 (D/Q 25/41-46)
1910-1933 (D/Q 25/77-79)

Account books
1743-1874 (D/Q 25/47-48)
1874-1924 (D/Q 25/83-86)

Plans and specifications for major building work
1836 (D/Q 25/11)
1875 (D/Q 25/75, 96, 97)
1906 (D/Q 25/75)
1911 (D/Q 25/75,100)
1913 (D/Q 25/75,102)
1919-1920 (D/Q 25/75)
1926-1927 (D/Q 25/75)
1936-1952 (D/Q 25/103)
1957-1959 (D/Q 25/104)

Admission registers
1855-1917 (D/Q 25/1, 1A)
1902-1947 (D/Q 25/87-89)

Attendance registers
1839-1914 (D/Q 25/2-9)

School magazine
1911-1982 (D/Q 25/106)
Admin History:
Newport Grammar School was founded in 1588 (Victoria County History of Essex, volume 2, p. 541). No pre-19th century records appear to have survived, apart from the contemporary copy of the inquisition of 1662 (D/Q 25/10). The 'school deeds' are said to have been destroyed in the late 19th century 'by order of a governor sadly lacking in antiquarian tastes' ( V.C.H. Essex , volume 2, p.543). The school records proper date from 1836 and include valuable details of the curriculum in the attendance registers, 1839-1882 (D/Q 25/2-5). A certain amount of information about school life is contained in the Newport Parish Magazine , 1882-1889 (D/Q 25/24, 105), and a great deal is contained in the Newportonian, 1911-1982 (D/Q 25/106).

The then Newport Free Grammar School converted to academy status on 1 September 2012. During 2013/14 the school was re-named the Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport.

A small group of records not relating to the school (D/Q 25/5-40) was probably assembled by one of the Governors, the well-known antiquary C.K. Probert (d. 1887). It includes material relating to the parish church (D/Q 25/25), local cricket clubs (D/Q 25/26), recreation ground (D/Q 25/27), and miscellaneous ephemeral printed material, e.g. an advertisement issued by Abram Barnard, a Newport grocer and wine merchant, 1863-1886 (D/Q 25/37).
Related Unit of Description:
See F. Thompson's Newport Grammar School, Essex. A brief history (Old Newportonian Society 1974) and Sons of Joyce Frankland, volume 1, 1588-1945, and volume 2, 1946-1976 (Old Newportonian Society 1979, 1984). These are available in the Essex Record Office Library.

A manuscript volume containing Latin declamations by pupils of the school, Christmas 1674 - Whitsun 1678, is Cambridge University Library Add. MS. 6262 (for details, see T/A 295/1). See also Wase MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (notes in T/A 185/1).