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year, morning and afternoon; (iii) To find a clerk to officiate
in the chapel; (iv.) To find and provide one or more schoolmasters
to teach poor boys of St. James's; (v.) To keep the
chapel and premises in repair, and to find and provide a
ringer, pew-keeper, fire, candles, and other necessaries for
the chapel; And (vi.) any surplus to be laid up and deposited
by the trustees for repairing the chapel and houses, and discharging
other contingent charges about the same, or the
execution of the said trust, or any way relating thereto.
Nos. 174 and 176 Regent Street, No. 91, King Street, and
the vaults under the church are at present held on lease by
the Crown, at a ground rent of £72 10s. 0d. per annum. This
lease will expire on the 5th January, 1920, when the income
of the Charity will be largely increased.
The school was originally held in a room over the porch
of Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, King Street, and was subsequently
transferred to and merged in the Tenison's School
for the Parish of St. Martin, which occupied a site now
absorbed in the National Gallery. The United Schools were
removed to their present building in Leicester Square on the
Government acquiring the former property in the year 1867
for enlarging the Gallery. Shortly afterwards, the Charity
Commissioners established a scheme varying the mode of
administering the charity and placing the School under the
management of a mixed body of Trustees, three of whom
are elected by the Vestry of this Parish : Mr. Frederick Crane,
Mr. Henry Graves, and Mr. William W innett, being thepresent
Governors so elected. In addition to these elected representatives,
the Rector of St. James's is a Trustee ex-ojficio, and
two other Trustees resident in the Parish are elected by the
Board. These two co-optative Trustees are, at present, the
Rev. H, A. Sherringham, Vicar of St. Peter's, and Mr. Hopkinson,
of Regent Street. The present annual income of
the charity derived from the endowment is £148, but the