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Christ's Hospital School Hertford |
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There is information on the history of the hospital on the Hertford.net web site. |
Christ's Hospital School, a preparatory school for the great establishment in London, is a spacious building in Fore Street, erected in 1690 and adjoins the road leading from Hertford to Ware; it will hold 400 boys, 70 to 100 girls and has an infirmary for 100 sick children; with this school were incorporated at the beginning of the present century the two other supplementary school about the year 1700 at Broxbourne and Ware.
Rev. John Thomas Bell, MA headmaster; John Dyson, Albert Stoddart & James Staples, assistant classical masters; Francis Sykes, reading & writing master; William Henry Hands, William Marks & James Kemp, assistant reading & writing masters; Miss Alice Elizabeth King, head mistress, Miss Frances Newham & Miss Alice Dore, assistant mistresses; John Tasker Evans MD medical officer; John Francis Barter Sharpe, steward; Miss Mary Ludlow matron.
Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshire, 1882
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Medal relating to Christs Hospital,
auctioned on eBay in November 2004 |
Some surviving records of the school are held in the Guildhall Library which has an online guide to its holdings.. |
See William Lempiere's A
History of the Girls' School of Christ's Hospital, London, Hoddesdon and
Hertford
and D. R. West's Half
to Remember (Autobiography of headmistress, 1942-1972)

The Chapel, Christs Hospital - posted 1909?
See also GOODMAN,
Christs Hospital, Hertford, late 17th century
and SPARROW,
Christs Hospital, Hertford, 1822
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Christ's Hospital Entrance,
Hertford |
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Christ's Hospital , Hertford |
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GOODMAN, Christs Hospital, Hertford, late 17th century |
In the 1980's the school was converted into retirement flats and the August 2010 issue of Hertfordshire Countryside revealed that the clock on the main building (which was made in 1824 by Thwaites & Reed, of Clerkenwell) has just been restored.
If you can add to the information given above tell me.
| June 2010 | Various changes including P C with girls and new links |