Records of the parish of Saint Martin, Ruislip, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmation, graves, offerings and church services; Churchwardens' papers including accounts, correspondence and papers regarding the maintenance of the church; Vestry meeting minutes; minutes, accounts and correspondence of the Parochial Church Council; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including accounts, valuations, settlement, bastardy and apprenticeship orders and papers regarding the workhouse; papers of parish officers including the constable and the surveyors of highways; papers of related organisations including the Bishop Winnington Ingram School, the Friends of Saint Martin's, and Bishop Ramsey School; photographs; and papers of the War Emergency Committee (First World War).
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Hendon, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns of marriage; registers of church services; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; papers relating to church buildings and the churchyard; minutes of Vestry meetings and Parochial Church Council meetings; financial accounts; papers of parish organisations including charities, schools, societies and clubs.
Also records of Saint Mary Magdalene, Holders Hill Road, Hendon, a mission church of Saint Mary's which opened in 1934 and remains part of the same parish. There are also two items for Christ Church, Brent Street, Hendon, another daughter church which became an independent parish in 1923.
Summary of Registers at LMA: Saint Mary, Church End, Hendon, Composite registers 1653-1812, Registers of baptisms 1813-1992, Registers of marriages 1754-1989, Registers of burials 1678-1953; Christ Church, Brent Street, Hendon, Register of baptisms 1894-1912. Later registers are in the custody of the incumbent.
C 1894-1966 M 1923-1971 C 1663-1992 M1654-1989 B 1653-1953 No Registers held
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Peter, Staines, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Teddington, comprising registers of baptisms and registes of marriages.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Holy Trinity, Winchmore Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, church services; Parochial Church Council and Vestry meetings minutes; and Fund Raising and Appeal Committee minutes.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Hayes, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; papers relating to fees, tithes and endowments; Churchwardens' papers regarding the maintenance of the church fabric and church finances; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of parish charities; papers of the church bell ringers and maps.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Perivale, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, graves and church services; Vestry minute book; Parochial Church Council minute books; plans of churchyard showing graves; Perivale Committee minute books; annual reports; newsletters and parish magazines; faculties; papers relating to tithes.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Faith, Brentford, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; sermon note books; financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books; Vestry minute books; and parish magazines.
Also papers of the Brentford and Chiswick Housing Association comprising minutes, reports, financial accounts and correspondence.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Matthew, Ashford, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; Preachers' books; papers relating to parish boundaries and transfers; papers relating to tithes; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to parish charities; maps of the parish. Also architects' drawings and plans for Saint Matthew's Church, Saint Matthew's Churchyard and Saint Hilda's Church; and correspondence and Vestry minutes for Saint Benedict's Mission Church.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Jerome, Dawley, comprising registers of baptisms, registers of marriages and register of confirmations.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Alban the Martyr, Golders Green, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint John the Baptist, Greenhill, Harrow, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriages, confirmations and church services; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes; Building Committee minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to staff; papers relating to the maintenance of the church buildings and fittings including faculties; papers relating to properties and land; papers relating to social events and clubs; notices, orders of service, newspaper cuttings and programmes.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Francis of Assisi, Gladstone Park, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; photographs of the church, clergy and church activities; papers relating to the creation of the parish; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church and hall; Vestry and Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; correspondence of the Parochial Church Council Secretary; financial accounts; papers regarding church clubs and societies; parish magazines; news cuttings, pamphlets, postcards and other printed items.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of the Ascension, Hanger Hill, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; and minute books of the Vestry and Parochial Church Council.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint George, Southall, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; working papers of the incumbent; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings and fittings, including faculties and inventories; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; and historical notes.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriages, church services and preachers; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings; and photographs of the church. Also registers of baptisms for Willesden General Hospital.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint James, Alperton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, and banns of marriage; registers of church services; papers regarding the construction of the church and vicarage; faculties for the maintenance of church fittings; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to church societies and clubs; and parish magazines.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mellitus, Hanwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; working papers of the incumbent; correspondence; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; papers relating to the Sunday School; parish magazines and photograph of the exterior of the church.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Saviour, Alexandra Park, Haringey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; diary of church events; inventories of church contents, with photographs; papers and legal documents relating to church properties; correspondence; minutes of Churchwardens' meetings; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of other Committees; parish magazines and bulletins; booklets; newspaper cuttings; and photographs of the church.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of St Mary Magdalene, Littleton, Surrey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmation and church services; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; papers relating to church buildings including faculties, correspondence, plans and drawings and church inspection reports; papers relating to Saint John's Mission Hall including deeds and plans; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minutes; Overseers of the Poor rate books; and a history of the church.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Dunstan, Acton, comprising baptism registers, marriage registers, confirmation registers and parish magazines.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Luke, Hornsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmations; church service registers; correspondence and papers of the incumbent; papers relating to the appointment of church personnel; papers relating to parish boundaries including plans; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; material regarding the church building including faculties, plans, drawings, contracts and specifications, reports and surveys; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; parish magazines and photographs.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Emmanuel, Northwood, including registers of baptisms, marriage, banns of marriage and church services; orders of service; papers of the incumbent; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; faculties, inventories, plans, drawings, photographs, reports, contracts and specifications for the church building, vicarage and church hall; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of other committees; reports and correspondence; financial accounts; correspondence relating to parochial charities; Managers' Minutes, deeds, plans and correspondence relating to the school; papers of church societies and clubs; parish magazines; yearbooks; historical notes and pamphlets; and photographs.
Sans titreRegister of baptisms at Heston Barracks Chapel, Heston.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Holy Trinity, Southall, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations, funerals and church services; preachers' books; Vestry and Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; financial accounts; minutes and accounts of parish societies; and parish magazines.
Sans titreRecords of the Mission Church of Saint Giles, Enfield, including registers of church services; Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; electoral rolls; and financial accounts.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of St Saviour, Upper Sunbury, comprising registers of baptisms (1881-1992), marriages (1913-1988), burials (1882-1888), confirmations (1941-1983), banns (1943-1995) and church services (1909-1998). Includes registers of baptisms and church services at Saint Benedict Mission Church.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of St Philip and St James, Whitton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; papers relating to the benefice and terrier; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; and orders relating to parish boundary changes.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of St Paul, Edmonton, including baptism registers (1834-1928), marriage registers (1838-1928), banns registers (1852-1915), church service registers, papers relating to the benefice and terrier, faculties relating to the maintenance of the church, Parochial Church Council and other Committee minutes, financial accounts and parish magazines (1887-1930). Also registers for baptisms at Saint Thomas, Winchmore Hill (1908-1920).
Sans titreRecords of Christ Church Mission Church, Harlington, comprising registers of church services; correspondence relating to the construction of the new church and administrative files.
Sans titreParish magazine for the parish of Christ Church, Cockfosters, 1967.
Sans titreRecords of the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Twickenham. This collection includes the parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (1538 - 1960); Churchwardens' accounts (1605/6 - 1848); Vestry meeting minute books (1618 - 1901) and Overseers' of the Poor accounts (1663 - 1679). Of particular note are: the Book of Briefs (1708 - 1760), which also includes a list of bonds, surrender certificates and indentures (DRO/174/B/02/001) and the survey of land-holding or real estates in the parish, made in 1661, which appears in the Churchwardens' account book (DRO/174/B/01/003).
Sans titreRecords of the Church of Saint Benet Fink, Tottenham include registers of baptisms (1912-1955) and marriages (1913-1982).
Sans titreRecords of the Diocese of Southwark, 1742-2000. The collection relates to the area of London covered by the Diocese of Southwark south of the River Thames, dating mainly from 1905. It provides a wealth of information on church architecture and fixtures, sources for marriages and clergy (of particular use for family history), and the morals and conduct of clergy and their parishioners. Some records date from when parishes were under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Winchester (before 1877) and the Diocese of Rochester (1877-1904).
The records of Southwark Diocesan Regsistry include the following: grants of faculties relating to church buildings and fittings with a large number of coloured drawings and plans of churches, monuments, stained glass designs and other fittings (1905-2000); consecration and dedication papers including petitions and plans relating to new churches and burial grounds (1905-1976); ordinations and appointments of clergy (1878-1974); records relating to marriages including lists of marriage licences granted to couples intending to marry in churches within the Diocese of Rochester and Southwark (1877-1910, 1940-1958) and marriage warrants and affidavits recording the declarations made by parties intending to marry by licence (1905-1974).
Also records relating to visitations, the process by which the bishop maintained faith and discipline and corrected clerical and lay abuses, including lists of churchwardens (1924-1956), visitation returns (1907-1956) and presentment reports submitted by churchwardens on the state of church buildings and the conduct of clergy and parishioners in the parish (1905-1974).
The collection also contains minutes and property deeds from the Rochester and Southwark Diocesan Church Trust (1817-1966) relating to the College of Saint Saviour, Saint Olave, Southwark and All Saints, North Peckham, including correspondence relating to the removal of remains from the Flemish Burial Ground, adjacent to Saint Olave in 1842 (reference DS/CT); and minutes and related papers of Rural Deaneries of Dulwich, and Newington and Southwark (1869-1990) (reference DS/DRD).
Please note that some of the collection is uncatalogued. Please ask a member of staff for information regarding the procedure to access uncatalogued records.
Sans titreRecords of the Diocese of Winchester, 1480-1936. The archive collections relate mainly to parishes in the ancient county of Surrey, now in the dioceses of Guildford and Southwark and include: the records of the Archdeaconry of Surrey which had jurisdiction over the parishes in the ancient county of Surrey excluding 13 peculiars (administrative areas outside the jurisdiction of the bishop), including Bishop's Transcripts for parishes in the archdeaconry, the issue of licences including marriage bonds and allegations and clergy's licences, registry material, church consecrations and dedications, dissenters' meeting house certificates, and terriers of church property in each parish.
Also the records of the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey, consisting of court probate material including wills; the records of the Commissary Court of Surrey, including the bishop's commissary court probate records including wills and cause papers in court proceedings; and a small collection of office papers of the Archdeaconry of Winchester relating to parishes in Hampshire.
Sans titreRecords of Saint James's United Reformed Church, Heather Walk, Edgware. The collection includes minutes of the court of session 1933-1972, elders meetings 1972-2000, committee of management 1933-2001, church meetings 1972-2001 and youth and teachers meetings 1933-1952; baptism register 1933-2001, marriage registers 1948 to 1975 and communicant rolls 1933-1998, appointed persons certificates 1946-1987 and records relating to appointment and ministry of Reverend Geoffrey Holland Williams MA; correspondence, plans and sound recordings relating to new church hall 1950, correspondence, plans and specifications relating to extension of vestry block 1953, correspondence and statements relating to purchase, sale and letting of manse 1986-2000; collection books 1933-1987 and account sheets 1949-1993; annual reports 1933-1949, yearbooks 1951-2001, newsletters 1935-1962, fellowship of youth newsletters 1950-1964 and church magazines 1963-2000; silver jubilee celebratory booklet 1958 and various orders of service commemorating significant milestones within the church's history.
Sans titrePapers of Reverend George Bell Doughty, comprising notebooks including sermons, poems and reminiscences, and photographs of church interiors at Saint Stephen Walbrook and Saint Margaret Lothbury.
Sans titreRecord of church furnishings for the church of Saint Margaret, Lee. The record covers memorials, metalwork, stonework, woodwork, textiles, paintings, library records, windows and tiling, clocks, musical instruments and lighting. It also includes a list of records (baptisms, marriages and burials) deposited at Lewisham Local History Library.
Sans titreRecords of the Pilgrim Trust, including minutes of Trustees meetings; financial records; papers of the Secretary; correspondence; annual reports; publications; annual accounts; ledgers; cash books; grant payment books; and grant files relating to art and learning, countryside preservation, ecclesiastical preservations, secular preservation and social welfare.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint John, Deptford, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; preachers' books; offertory registers; church services registers; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; and papers relating to the parish school.
Sans titreRegisters of baptisms, 1871-1974; registers of marriages, 1943-1948; register of members' attendance, 1934-1947; register of deacons' attendance, 1905-1941; registers of preaching engagements, 1896-1953; applications for fellowship, 1889-1971; Church Meeting minute books, 1707-1974; Deacons' Meeting minute books, 1877-1967; Choir Meeting minute books, 1924-1969; minute books of Trustees Meetings, General Purposes Committee, Supply Committee, Deacons Finance Committee, and Committee for Alterations and Additions, 1870-1934; Sunday School Teachers' Meeting minute books, 1932-1961; Women's Council minute books, 1917-1975; accounts, 1871-1972; deeds, 1754-1959; correspondence and related material, 1813-1975; Church magazines, 1885-1974; Church manuals, 1873-1962; printed material relating to New Court Chapel, 1792-1921 and sketches and photographs, 1872-1967.
Sans titreTrustees minute book, 1857-1859.
Sans titreDeeds relating to the Chapel, 1825-1906; Trustees minute book, 1863-1922 and Treasurer's account book, 1905-1922.
Sans titreMinutes of Sub Committee and General Committee of the Great Queen Street Circuit, 1877-1878; plan showing proposed site for Chapel and Schools at Agincourt Road, 1880?; draft proposed terms of purchase for plot of land on the north east of Agincourt Road, 1880 and correspondence concerning proposed Chapel in Agincourt Road (Gospel Oak site), 1880.
Sans titreSchedules of trust property and copies of statistical returns, 1961-1965.
Sans titreRegister of baptisms of Brunswick Chapel, Limehouse, 1909- 1954; baptism certificate stubs, 1947-1963; register of names in Brunswick Chapel burial ground and vaults, 1831-1853; minute book of trustees' meetings, 1847-1965; minute book of meetings of the trustees of Mitre Schools, 1878-1933; booklet of the Limehouse Wesleyan Sunday School of the Seamen's Mission at Brunswick Chapel, 1913; minute book of meetings of the Wesley Guild Executive, 1922-1940; Collection book of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, Limehouse based at Brunswick Chapel, 1891-1913; schedule of deeds and documents relating to Limehouse Chapel, 1723-1899, compiled 1899; general correspondence, 1901-1902 and 1940; agreement regarding the improvement and alteration of the Mitre Schools, 1819; Memorandum of Choice and Appointment of new Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School and Trust Property at Mitre Buildings, Limehouse, 1899 and 1911; Fire Insurance Policy of the Wesleyan Methodist Trust Assurance Company Limited, 1884; Conveyance in Trust for vacant ground lying on south side of and near to the Works of the Blackwall Railway Company in street leading from Church Lane to Three Colt Street called Mitre Buildings, Limehouse, 1842; schedule of deeds and other documents relating to Brunswick Chapel and the Mitre Schools, Limehouse, 1934.
Sans titreMinute book of trustees, 1894-1919; report on chapel building by Charles Campion, builder and decorator, 1895; Trustees Treasurer's account book, 1915-1920 and bank book of the trustees, 1916-1920.
Sans titreRegister of baptisms, 1851-1919. Some entries copied from the Register of Baptisms, Primitive Methodist Chapel, Fetter Lane, Holborn.
Sans titreMinute book of the quarterly meetings of the Islington Circuit, First London District, 1883-1899, with enclosures including newspaper cuttings concerning the quarterly meetings, 1886 and the First London District Synod, 1898, printed notice concerning Islington Circuit Bazaar, 1880s and balance sheet of Islington Circuit Bazaar Account, 22 Sept 1897.
Sans titreRegisters of marriages for the following Methodist chapels or missions:
Albany Methodist Mission, 1954-1958
Brockley Wesleyan Chapel, 1914-1947
Brunswick Chapel Limehouse, 1900-1954
Calderwood Street Methodist Chapel (Woolwich Methodist Church from 1965), 1939-1977
Cassland Road Wesleyan Chapel, South Hackney, 1900-1940
Charlton Methodist Church, Woolwich Road, Charlton, 1919-1940
Dulwich Road Methodist Church, Herne Hill, 1950-1962
Emery Hall, Augusta Street, Poplar, 1918-1954
Green Lanes Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1906-1967
Grove Mission, Great Guildford Street, 1889-1913
Highbury Wesleyan Chapel, Drayton Park, Highbury, 1868-1929
High Street Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Hampstead, 1881-1933
Hither Green Wesleyan Chapel, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, 1913-1940
Hornsey Road Chapel, Hornsey Road, 1915-1940
Lambeth Wesleyan Chapel, Lambeth Road, 1916-1928
Liverpool Road Chapel, Liverpool Road, 1865-1953
Locksfield Wesleyan Chapel, Rodney Road, Walworth (Lockfeld Methodist Chapel, from 1939), 1926-1955
Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel, White Horse Lane, 1955-1962
Methodist Chapel, Hackney Road, 1933-1942
Methodist Chapel, Poplar, 1946-1973
Methodist Chapel, St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, 1949-1952
Methodist Chapel (Welsh), City Road, 1933-1940
Methodist Chapel, Westbridge Road, Battersea, 1960-1967
Methodist Church, Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 1940-1942
Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road, Lavender Hill, 1938-1939
Methodist Church, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 1935-1968
Methodist Church, Lynwood Road, Tooting, 1947-1967
Methodist Church, Waterloo Road, 1935-1941
Mildmay Park Chapel, Mildmay Park, 1862-1963
New Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, 1924-1943
Packington Street Methodist Chapel, 1947-1964
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chrisp Street, Bromley, 1907-1925
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, 1920-1935
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Furber Street, Hammersmith, 1916-1954
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kilburn Lane, 1921-1934
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Robert Street, Plumstead, 1900-1965
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1928-1940
Queensway Methodist Hall, Queens Road, 1902-1958
Roupell Park Wesleyan Church, West Norwood, 1907-1966
St Georges Hall and Schools, Old Kent Road, 1906-1955
St James Church, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, 1908-1966
Southwark Park Methodist Chapel, Bermondsey, 1937-1955
Sutherland Avenue Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1899-1977
The Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, Mile End Old Town, 1936-1951
United Methodist Church, High Road, Lee, 1927-1971
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Broadway, Streatham, 1889-1966
United Methodist Church, Bruce Road, Bromley, 1925-1940
United Methodist Church, Charlotte Street, Caledonian Road, 1908-1940
United Methodist Church, Fentiman Road, Lambeth, 1932-1976
United Methodist Church, Paradise Road, Clapham, 1910-1935
United Methodist Church, Pembury Grove, Lower Clapton, 1918-1941
United Methodist Church, Walham Grove, Fulham, 1911-1971
Victoria Hall, Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, 1929-1969
Victoria Wesleyan Church, Barrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, 1905- 1940
Waltham Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fulham Road, 1904-1964
Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Holborn, 1899-1933 (UNFIT for access)
Wesleyan Chapel, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, 1924-1939
Wesleyan Chapel, Caledonian Road, Islington, 1867-1915 (UNFIT for access)
Wesleyan Chapel, Camden Street, Camden Town, 1931-1938
Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Sydenham (Dartmouth Road, Sydenham from 1938), 1918-1945
Wesleyan Chapel, London Street, Greenwich (Central Hall from 1906, West Greenwich Methodist Church from 1935), 1885-1969
Wesleyan Chapel, Wauxhall Walk, 1931-1957
Wesleyan Church, Rushey Green, Catford, 1897-1967
Wesleyan Chapel, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (later St Georges Methodist Church), 1900-1981
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brockley Rise, Forest Hill (Honor Oak Park Methodist Church from 1934), 1902-1974
Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, High Street, Plumstead, 1906-1957
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Danty Street, Hackney Wick, 1909-1935
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Denbigh Road, Westbourne Grove, 1911-1940
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kitto Road, Nunhead, 1901-1972
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Cross Road, 1903-1942
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, 1922-1964
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Avenue, Blackheath, 1866-1945
Wesley Hall, Streatham, 1924-1948
William Street, Methodist Chapel, Woolwich, (Calderwood Methodist Chapel from 1939), 1900-1939
Working Lads Institute, Whitechapel Road, 1905-1906
Methodist Church, Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, 1932-1981
Kingsway Hall, Lesley House, Kingsway, 1931-1980.
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