| Description | The Sunday School Committee appears to have been appointed in 1817, when the Vestry Committee considered it 'highly proper and desirable that the choice of a new Committee should rest with the subscribers generally' (see description in catalogue record UC 2/11). During the early years the committee generally met every month at the Park Street, later Graham Street Charity School.
In 1855 the constitution of the committee was altered, where it was decided that the body would comprise the minister of the church, the chairman of the Vestry Committee, eight members to be elected by the subscribers and five members of the Teachers' Society to be elected by that body. From 1878 the minute books also include the minutes of the Church of the Messiah Home Mission (see UC 2/11/2/3), which had amalgamated with the Sunday Schools Committee that year (see UC 2/11/2/1/6 onwards).
There are no minutes for the period 1817 - 1824, with the surviving minutes from this date including lists of names of visitors, committee members and subscribers of the schools; details relating to appointments and salaries of staff at the schools; provision of stationery and books, details relating to the curriculum, attendance reports, inspection reports, financial information and general school reports. |