| Description | These records were deposited by the Trustees of the Corporate Body in February, 1988. They were previously stored in the basement of the College library. King's College, London, now holds some records relating to the College, including students' files post 1953. The historic library of the college is held by the Cathedral Library.
The collection mainly consists of College administrative records, such as registers, files and correspondence, including a large quantity of student records.
It also contains much information about the history of the Abbey, including archaeological information and photographs of the various sites. Some of this includes the records of excavations gathered by R U Potts, Subwarden of the College 1912 - 1920, which were deposited with the Department of the Environment by the College Bursar in the 1950s and later returned to the collection.
Also included are some personal papers relating to the following individuals :-
Henry Martyn (1781 - 1812), Missionary in India
Daniel Corrie (1777 - 1837), Bishop of Madras
Noel Hall, Bishop of Chota Nagpur from 1936 - 1957
Bishop A M Knight, Warden of the College 1909 - 1928
G M Maclear, Warden of the College 1880 - 1902
E A Kallihura (1832c - 1856), Student
W Kemp, Student in 1938
Introductory notes to these papers, including information about related collections, may be found in section C of this list.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.R J E Boggis, A History of St Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury (Canterbury, 1901)
2.R J E Boggis, A History of St Augustine's College, Canterbury (Canterbury, 1907)
3.Henry Bailey, Twenty Five Years of St Augustine's College, Letter to Late Students (Canterbury, 1873)
4.St Augustine's College, Occasional Papers 1858 - 1935
For information on missionaries who went to New Zealand, see the Biographical Directory available via the Kinder Library website at www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz
CONTENTS
A Foundation, Administration, College Life and Work
A1 Foundation, Charters and Statutes
A1/1 Foundation
A1/2 Charters and Statutes
A2 College Administration
A2/1 Printed Material
A2/2 Correspondence
A2/3 Financial Affairs, Appeals, Trusts and Scholarships
A2/4 Property Deeds and Estates Administration
A2/5 Benefactors, Staff and Students
A2/6 Student Files
A3 College Life and Work
A3/1 Academic Affairs
A3/2 The Chapel
A3/3 College Life
B History of Abbey and College
B1 Printed Material
B2 Unpublished Papers
B3 Archaeological Excavations
B4 Photographs
B5 Canterbury Historical Pamphlets
B6 Abbey Manuscripts
C Personal Papers
C1 Henry Martyn Letters
C2 Papers of Bishop Noel Hall
C3 Memoirs of W Kemp
C4 Meditation Notes of Bishop A M Knight
C5 Notebooks of Warden Maclear
C6 Books and Papers of E A Kallihura
C7 Unknown Student's Diary, 1899 |
| AdminHistory | The first half of the 19th century saw a period of debate about the need for an institution to train clergymen specifically to work in the colonies of the British Empire. W E Coleridge (1800-1883), Master at Eton was one of those particularly concerned with this issue. When, in 1844, A J Beresford Hope, M P for Maidstone, bought the grounds and ruins of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury with the intention of giving them to the Church, Coleridge approached him, secured the donation and set about a public appeal for building work for this purpose. The College was inaugurated in 1848. A Charter was granted by the Queen and a body of Statutes by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The College carried on training missionaries to work in colonial dioceses, with a brief interruption during the First World War when the College was used as a hospital for casualties returning from the front via Dover, and as a women land workers' hostel, for almost a century. However, in the 1930s, it was increasingly felt that the various national churches ought to be able to find clergy from among their own people and that what was now needed was not a training college for missionaries but a central college for the whole Anglican Communion to which clergy from all countries could come to train. In the summer of 1942, the College was badly damaged by bombing and was forced to close. In 1947 a Supplemental Charter was granted to the College which allowed it to change its function and the matter was sealed by the Lambeth Conference in 1948. In 1952 the College re-opened as The Central College of the Anglican Communion. It carried on this role until 1967 when the training of the students was taken over by King's College London. The Corporate Body of the College in 1976 leased and then in 1992 sold the College buildings to the King's School, Canterbury. |