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GB 0074 P88/CTC · Collection · 1857-1989

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Manchester Road, Isle of Dogs, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns and church services; financial records; administrative papers and papers relating to the parish school.

Parish of Christ Church, Poplar , Church of England
GB 0074 P71/CTC2 · Collection · 1840-1950

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Rotherhithe, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; papers relating to the clergy and church staff; map of parish boundaries; correspondence regarding the benefice; faculties and inventories.

Parish of Christ Church, Rotherhithe , Church of England
GB 0074 P89/CTC · Collection · 1822-1974

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Cosway Street, St Marylebone, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; church services registers; alms books; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to parish charities and the parish school; legal documents relating to parish properties.

Parish of Christ Church, Marylebone , Church of England
GB 0074 P90/CTC1 · Collection · 1850-1948

Records of Christ Church, Chalton Street, Somers Town, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages and banns. Includes some entries for Saint Luke's.

Parish of Christ Church, Somers Town , Church of England Parish of St Luke, Euston Road , Church of England
GB 0074 P79/CTC1 · Collection · 1871-1953

Records of Christ Church, South Hackney, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; and newspaper cuttings relating to the benefice.

Parish of Christ Church, South Hackney , Church of England
GB 0074 DRO/065 · Collection · 1813-1972

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Southgate, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and funerals, confirmations and banns of marriage; parish magazines; financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minutes; and registers of church services.

Parish of Christ Church, Southgate , Church of England
GB 0074 P92/CTC · Collection · 1671-1996

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; papers relating to the burial ground; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; church services registers; maps of the parish; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; prints of the church interior and exterior; financial records; papers relating to parish charities and schools; and historical notes.

Also records relating to local taxation including poor rate books; church rate books; minister's rate books; church yard/burial ground rate books, highways rate books, watching and lighting rate books, sewers and draingage rate books.

Parish of Christ Church, Southwark , Church of England
GB 0074 P93/CTC1 · Collection · 1702-2004

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Commercial Street, Spitalfields, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; legal documents (such as deeds, leases and conveyances) relating to parish property; papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; records relating to church personnel; correspondence and working papers of the incumbents; records of the parish school and parish charities; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; parish newsletters and printed items. Also papers of the Overseers of the Poor.

The collection includes a large amount of material relating to the restoration of the church building by the Friends of Christ Church, including minutes, administrative papers, plans and reports; and a set of papers relating to the work of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust including minutes, press cuttings and photographs.

Parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields , Church of England
GB 0074 P95/CTC1 · Collection · 1839-1942

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill, including registers of baptisms and marriages; registers of church services and preachers; papers relating to the construction of the church and subsequent maintenance, including plans; papers relating to the parish school; and financial records.

Parish of Christ Church, Streatham Hill , Church of England
GB 0074 DRO/079 · Collection · 1845-1992

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Turnham Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; Vestry minutes; Committee minutes; electoral rolls; financial accounts; and appeal brochure.

Parish of Christ Church, Turnham Green , Church of England
GB 0074 P93/CTC2 · Collection · 1842-1947

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Watney Street, Shadwell, including registers of baptisms and marriages; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; and papers regarding the refurbishment of the organ.

Parish of Christ Church, Shadwell , Church of England
GB 0074 DRO/030 · Collection · 1889-1981

Records of the parish of Christ Church, West Green, near Tottenham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books and financial accounts; papers of the Sunday School; parish magazines and published history of the church.

Parish of Christ Church, West Green , Church of England
GB 0074 DRO/165 · Collection · 1937-1988

Records of Christ Church Mission Church, Harlington, comprising registers of church services; correspondence relating to the construction of the new church and administrative files.

Christ Church Mission Church, Harlington , Church of England
CHURCHES
CLA/079 · Collection · 1394-1985

Papers relating to the administration and management of various London churches, 1394-1985, including general reports, correspondence, and printed acts; papers relating to individual parish churches, including Saint Andrew Undershaft, Saint Bartholomews, Saint Bartholomew the Great, Saint Benet Link, Saint Botolph (without) Aldgate, Saint Dunstans, Saint George Southwark, Saint Giles, Cripplegate, Saint John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park, Saint Katharine by the Tower, Saint Lawrence Jewry, Saint Maquis, Saint Margaret Pattens, Saint Peter Cornhill, Saint Martin's le Grand, Saint Olave Old Jury, Saint Mary Aldermanbury, Saint Mary, Colechurch, Saint Mary-le-Bow, Saint Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, Saint Olave, Hart Street, Saint Olaves, Silver Street, Saint Pancras, Saint Peter's, Cornhill, Saint Saviour, Southwark, Saint Stephens Walbrook and Saint Brides; papers relating to burial grounds and reports, correspondence, minutes, orders of service and programmes, staff lists, account books, orders, inventories and agreements from Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Corporation of London
CITY ROAD CHAPEL, FINSBURY
N/C/04 · Collection · 1850-1897

Church book containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1850-1864, including report on activities of congregation, collections and funds, 1850-1863, membership rolls, 1850, register of marriages, 1852-1856 and register of baptisms, 1850-1861; volume containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1864-1897, membership rolls, 1864 and register of baptisms, 1876-1897.

Depositor
CITY ROAD METHODIST CIRCUIT
ACC/2330 · Collection · 1806-1970

Records of the City Road Circuit including Quarterly Meeting minute books, 1817-1852 and 1925-1952; Circuit Stewards account book, 1922-1922; Class book, 1806-1828; Class moneys and subscription lists, 1795-1898; Twentieth Century Fund account book, 1899-1903; schedule of Methodist Trust Property, 1938-1970; Education Schedule book; 1888-1893; Circuit Statement of income and expenditure, 1906-1916; notice of proposed amalgamation of Wesley's Chapel Circuit (i.e. City Road Circuit) and Highbury Circuit, 1916.

Records relating to Angel Alley Chapel, including agreement regarding Angel Alley Wesleyan Chapel and School, Bishopsgate Street Without, 1865; deed of appointment of new Trustees, and vesting of part of Trust property, 1882; schedule of deeds and documents, 1820-1882, compiled 1883.

Records relating to Chequer Alley Chapel including schedule of deeds and documents, 1801-1865, compiled 1867; schedule of sale of chapel, 1882.

Records relating to Wesley's Chapel, City Road, including registers of baptisms, 1838-1946; register of burials, 1779-1784; Trustees Meeting minute books, 1822-1874 and 1934-1973; Trustees Meeting account book, 1860-1892; Conference Commission on Wesley's Chapel minute book, 1972-1973; Leaders Meeting minute book, 1807-1894 and 1933-1955; Society Stewards account books, 1808-1912; Society Stewards book, including a reprint of The Duties of Wesleyan Stewards: with other information concerning their Office by Reverend E. Workman, 1906-1913; Missionary Committee minute book, 1877-1899; Christian Workers' Association minute book, 1887-1897; Conference Committee minute book, 1928-1961; Collection books, 1839-1869; Poor Fund account books, 1789-1964; Sunday School papers, 1912-1958; appeal letter relating to restoration of Wesley's Chapel, 1892; key plan showing layout of roof timbers of chapel, 1931.

Records relating to Hackney Road Chapel (formerly Middlesex Chapel), including register of baptisms, 1880-1954; Trustees Meeting minute book, 1820-1978; Leaders Meeting minute book, 1891-1953.

Records relating to Jewin Street Chapel including register of baptisms, 1842-1890; Trustees Meeting minute books, 1842-1962; documents relating to Jewin Street Trust, 1843-1886; legal documents relating to the Jewin Street property, 1843-1886; papers relating to the appointment of Trustees, 1891-1899; certificate for the solemnization of marriages, 1873; correspondence with Charity Commission, 1892; letter from Wesleyan Chapel Committee consenting to sale of Chapel, 1886.

Records relating to New North Road Chapel including register of marriages, 1851-1912; Trustees Meeting minute book, 1848-1919; Trustees Treasurers account book, 1917-1920; Leaders Meeting minute book, 1897-1919; Building Account, later incorporating Trust Account; 1848-1895; architect's report on buildings with sketch plans showing proposed alterations, 1916.

Records relating to Radnor Street Chapel comprising Trustees Meeting minute books, 1885-1940.

Records relating to Spitalfields Chapel comprising Sunday School Tract Society minute book, 1821-1829.

Records relating to Wilson Street Welsh Chapel including schedule for purchase of Chapel, 1881; leave of Chapel Committee to purchase chapel, 1881; contract for sale and purchase, 1881; requisitions on title and repairs, 1881; authority to pay Consideration Money, 1881; Return to Chapel Committee, 1883.

Records of Tavistock Square House comprising file containing correspondence, draft list of deeds and draft accounts, 1921-1928.

Records of Great Queen Street Chapel comprising Day School Committee minute book, 1871-1906.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
LMA/4355 · Collection · 1868-1915

Manuals containing the annual reports of the several societies associated with the church, 1868-1915.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
CLAPTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
LMA/4354 · Collection · 1854-1935

Records of Lower Clapton Presbyterian Church, Downs Park Road, including Court of Session minute books, 1901-1935; Deacons' Court minute books, 1907-1935; Communicants' roll books, 1878-1935 (some gaps); register of baptisms (includes Dalston Presbyterian Church), 1854-1934; Disjunction certificate book, 1918-1935; Souvenir book including list of members, 1912 and copy of Indenture and Deed of Conveyance, 1873.

Presbyterian Church of England
GB 0074 P71/CCM · Collection · 1886-1950

Records of the Clare College Mission, Bermondsey (also known as the Church of the Epiphany), comprising registers of baptisms, registers of marriages, and a parish magazine.

Clare College Mission, Bermondsey , Church of England Church of the Epiphany, Bermondsey , Church of England
CLAYHALL SYNAGOGUE
GB 0074 ACC/2712/CLH · Subfonds · 1992-2008

Records of Clayhall Synagogue including minutes, agendas and meeting papers.

Clayhall Synagogue
GB 0099 KCLMA Codrington · Created 1898-1947

Typescript edited and unedited versions of memoirs of Lt Col John Alfred Codrington, [1947] entitled 'Gathering moss', 1898-1944, including account of service with British Mission Allied Armies of the Orient, Smyrna, Turkey, 1920, and as British Liaison Officer to French forces in Syria, 1926-1929. Photographs and papers, including notebook with manuscript notes on Regimental history of the Coldstream Guards, military training and preparations for deployment to France, 1917, eight watercolour paintings of churches in French towns, 1918, and photograph of Gen Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson at the unveiling of the Guards Memorial, St James's Park, London, 1926.

Codrington , John Alfred , 1898-1991 , Lieutenant Colonel
N/C/71 · Collection · [1890-1899]

Trusts and Trustees document for Basing Place School, 1890s and Trusts and Trustees document for Hoxton Academy Chapel Sunday School, 1890s.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
GB 0074 CLC/243 · Collection · [1850-1899]

Extracts from the vestry books of St Bride Fleet Street, 1653-1662, compiled late 19th century.

Copeland , Alfred James , fl 1870 , antiquarian
GB 0074 P73/COR · Collection · 1887-1962

Records of the Mission Church of Corpus Christi (Cambridge), Camberwell, including registers of baptisms and confirmations; church services registers; Church Council minutes; Parochial Church Council minute books; financial account books; and historical notes.

Mission Church of Corpus Christi (Cambridge), Camberwell , Church of England
N/C/58 · Collection · 1898-1899

Leases and mortgage for Lansdowne House, Court Road, Eltham, 1898-1899.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
CRAVEN CHAPEL, REGENT STREET
N/M/006 · Collection · 1859-1909

Register of baptisms, 1859-1909 and register of marriages, 1900-1906.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
CRICKLEWOOD SYNAGOGUE
GB 0074 ACC/2712/CKS · Collection · 1923-2004

Records of Cricklewood Synagogue, consisting of minutes, ledgers of membership payments and an admission card.

Material in more recent deposits included Board of Management minute books, committee minutes; administrative papers relating to membership, marriages, finances, officers, elections and the management of the synagogue; income and expenditure account books; cash books; petty cash books; marriage registers; lists and registers of members; newsletters and other printed items; and photographs.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Cricklewood Synagogue
DALSTON SYNAGOGUE
GB 0074 ACC/2712/DNS · Collection · 1877-1966

Records of Dalston Synagogue, consisting of minutes, cash book and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and chalitzah.

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Dalston Synagogue
Darley Estate, Yorkshire
GB 0096 MS 254 · 1813-1826

Manuscript account book for an estate at Darley, Yorkshire, 1813-1826, including prices for materials, repairs and labour for an estate comprising a house, garden, cottages, stables, farmlands, and St Catherine's Chantry. Some of the leaves have notes and figures in pencil.

Unknown
ACC/2384 · Collection · 1903-1951

Records of the Denbigh Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, comprising Poor's Stewards' or Poor Fund account book, 1903-1935; 47th Kensington Group Rover Troop minute book, 1930-1931; Rovers Round Table Conference minute book, 1935-1939; Rovers Round Table Conference attendance/signatures book, 1935-1939 and Bayswater circuit plan, 1951.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
Digby Stuart College
GB 99999 Digby Stuart · [1672]-2001

Records of Digby Stuart College, comprising: Minutes of Governors' Meetings, 1874-1953; Student registers, 1874-1938; staff registers, 1886-1956; College Journal, 1911-1939, 1960-1968; Studies Journal, 1904-1968; papers relating to teaching practice and school visits, 1924-1953; papers relating to examinations, [1874-1939], including schedules and results; Inspectors' reports, 1874-1909; papers relating to the University of London Delegacy, 1932-1949, including the McNair Report, 1944; papers relating to the Missionary Sisters Course, 1931-1940, including the setting up and the running of the course, the syllabus, brochures, lecture material and a register of students; Warden's Book (West Hill), 1954-1967; papers relating to the Old Students' Association (later the Digby Stuart Association), 1874-1973, notably registers of old students, 1874-1957; rules and lists, 1874-1935; minutes, 1966-1975; material relating to Decade Lunches, 1956, 1969-1974; secretaries book, 1874-1961; newsletters, 1946-1954, 1970-1995; copies of St Charles' Chronicle, 1922-1945; copies of The Chronicle, 1920-1969; reports, 1946-1954; material relating to student activities, including copies of Prism, 1962-1966, Fleet, 1963, and Those Days, [1984]; papers relating to the Student Union, notably handbooks, 1972-1988; and press cuttings concerning student activity, [1980s-1990s]; papers relating to the College Centenary, 1974, including liturgies, committee papers, correspondence and press cuttings; scrapbook containing photographs and memorabilia, 1935-1946; material concerning conferences and meetings, 1982-1990s; material relating to buildings, notably Shaw House and the Jubilee Wing, [1994-1996]; papers relating to the College Chaplaincy, 1970-2000; material on the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, 1973-2001, including annual reports, 1980-1994, press cuttings, 1974-1999, trust deeds, 1977-1978, and prospectuses, 1975-1995; papers relating to the constituent colleges pre and post RIHE, [1970-2001].
There are also working papers of several principals of Digby Stuart College namely:
Papers of Sister Mary Kathleen Richardson (Principal 1948-1969), comprising papers on subjects including three year training, the Robbins Report, the Committee of Principals of Roman Catholic Colleges, the University of London visitations, and the Association of Catholic Teacher-College Students (ACTS); as well as Academic Board minutes, 1956-1967, and documents on the governance and maintenance of the College.
Papers of Sister Dorothy Bell (Principal 1969-1989), including papers of the Committee of Principals of Roman Catholic Colleges; minutes and papers of the Academic Board and Academic Council, 1968-1988; correspondence on the governance of the College and the site, 1968-1982; papers relating to the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, 1975-1987; College staff lists, [1966-1987]; lists of student numbers, 1968-1974, student nuns, 1969-1983, and exam results, 1969-1988; Annual Reports, 1971-1977; papers relating to involvement in Provincial matters, 1968-1973; papers of College Governors meetings, 1971-1989; papers of the Senate, 1975-1984; papers of the RIHE Council, 1975-1986; minutes and papers of various College committees, 1976-1989.
Papers of Sister Bernadette Porter (Principal 1989-1999), comprising papers of the Committee of Principals of Roman Catholic Colleges, 1990-1992 and the Council of Church and Associated Colleges, 1988-1992; papers of the Senate, 1989-1992; papers of the Committee of Principals, 1990-1991 and the RIHE Collegiate Committee, 1990-1996; minutes and papers of various College committees, 1990-1993; papers of the RIHE Council, 1989-1999; and papers of College Governors meetings, 1989-1998.

The College records are only a part of the English Provincial Archive of the Society of the Sacred Heart, which contains a large collection of archival material relating to convents, colleges and training schools founded by the Society. These records include papers of Cannington Priory Church and Convent, [1843-1975]; the convent at Roscrea, Ireland, [1842-1884], the first foundation in the British Isles; the convent at Woldingham, Roehampton, [1842-1992], including material relating to Woldingham School; the convent at West Hill, Wandsworth, 1874-1975, including papers relating to attached schools; the convent in St Charles' Square, 1905-1946, and Roehampton, 1946-1992, including papers relating to attached schools, [1906-1994]; the convent at Hammersmith, [1672-1994], including papers of the attached schools; the convents at Blackheath and Goodrington, [1903-1975], and Leamington, [1913]; the convent at Bonchurch, [1904-1975]; the convent at Tunbridge Wells, [1915-1973], with material relating to the training school; the convent at Oxford, [1902-1972]; the convent at Fenham, Newcastle, [1828-1998], including a history of the site and material concerning the attached schools and St Mary's Training College; and papers relating to small communities at Gateshead, Burnham, Bexhill, Blyth and Southall, [1984-2000]. The Provincial Archive also holds the papers of AMASC (World Association of the Alumnae of the Sacred Heart), NASHE (National Association of the Sacred Heart, England and Wales) and associated groups, 1957-1995.

There is a large collection of photographs relating to all of the above, as well as historical material relating to the Roehampton area, [1724-1995], mainly relating to buildings owned and including plans, deeds, and specifications relating to 'Roehampton House' (now Queen Mary's Hospital) and 'Parkstead' (now Manresa House); historical material relating to Wimbledon and Putney.

Digby Stuart College Society of the Sacred Heart
DIOCESE OF LONDON
GB 0074 DL · Collection · [1271]-2011

Records of the Diocese of London, 1467-1976, held at the London Metropolitan Archives include:

  • records of the Archdeaconry of Hampstead (induction mandates, visitation papers)
  • records of the Archdeaconry of Hackney (visitation papers)
  • records of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (assignation books, churchwardens' presentments, financial papers, calendars, probate books and probate inventories, caveat books, registers of wills, administration bonds, renunciations, warrants, original wills, visitation books)
  • records of the Consistory Court of London (Acts of Court, assignation books, deposition books, Vicar General's books, registers of wills, original wills, matrimonial and testamentary cause papers, appointments of proctors, caveat books, Chancellor's notebooks, statistics)
  • papers of various rural deaneries (Paddington, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Saint Pancras, Enfield, Chelsea, Tottenham, Shoreditch, Saint Marylebone)
  • bishop's transcripts from the County of Middlesex and the County of London
  • papers relating to tithes (maps, apportionments, altered apportionments, certificates of capital value, awards of exchange, redemption certificates).

    Records of the Diocese of London, 1306-1996, (held at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section but currently accessible through the LMA) include:

  • Bishops' registers
  • Vicar Generals' books
  • Bishops' Act books
  • Ordination papers and Ordination registers
  • Licensing papers for curates, lecturers, institutional chaplains, parish clerks, midwives, physicians and surgeons, schoolmasters
  • Marriage allegations and marriage bonds
  • Parish files (of church deeds, consecration papers, plans and so on.)
  • Faculty papers, by parish.
  • Subscription books.
  • Parish register transcripts
  • Episcopal visitation records
  • Records of jurisdiction:-
  • Commissary Court records including court books, probate records, original wills, probate and administration act books, probate inventories
  • Estate records for property and manors in the City of London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Westminster and Worcester.

    Also papers relating to the Bishop of London's jurisdiction overseas. The Bishop of London was held to exercise responsibility for Anglican churches overseas where no other bishop had been appointed. He retained responsibility for churches in northern and central Europe until 1980, but his jurisdiction in southern Europe ceased in 1842 on the creation of the diocese of Gibraltar. In 1980, the Bishop of London divested himself of all overseas jurisdiction and a new diocese of 'Gibraltar in Europe' was established. Records include:-

  • Ordination and licensing records
  • Consecration papers and chaplaincy deeds
  • Foreign register transcripts
  • issues of the "Gibraltar and Fulham Diocesan Gazette"
  • Foreign chaplaincy archives for the chaplaincies of:
    Adelboden, Switzerland
    Aix les Bains, France
    Alassio, Italy
    Archangel, Russia
    Athens, Greece
    Balestrand, Norway
    Biarritz, France
    Bologna, Italy
    Bordighera, Italy
    Boulogne, France
    Bucharest, Romania
    Bucharest and Lower Danubian ports, Romania
    Burgenstock, Switzerland
    Calais, France
    Cannes, France
    Cap d'Antibes, France
    Cartagena, Spain
    Champery, Switzerland
    Chantilly, France
    Corfu, Greece
    Davos, Switzerland
    Ferrol, Spain
    Florence, Italy
    Fray Bentos, Uruguay
    Geneva, Switzerland
    Ghent, Belgium
    Grindelwald, Switzerland
    Haarlem, Netherlands
    Hamburg, Germany
    Helsinki, Finland
    Hughesovka, Russia
    Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
    Leghorn, Italy
    Leysin, Switzerland
    Libau, Latvia
    Lisbon, Portugal
    Lucerne, Switzerland
    Lyons, France
    Messina, Sicily, Italy
    Minas de Riotinto, Spain
    Monte Carlo, Monaco
    Moscow, Russia
    Nantes, North West France
    Odessa and South Russia
    Oporto, Portugal
    Ostend, Belgium
    Palermo, Italy
    Pisa and Bagni di Lucca, Italy
    Ponta Delgada, Azores
    Riga, Latvia
    Rigi-Kaltbad, Switzerland
    Saas Fee, Switzerland
    St Servan, France
    Seville, Spain
    Spiez, Switzerland
    Stockholm, Sweden
    Stresa, Italy
    Syra, Greece
    Tamaris sur mer, Toulon, France
    Taormina, Sicily
    Trieste, Italy
    Ulvik, Norway
    Versailles, France
    Viareggio, Italy
    Vitznau, Switzerland
    Wengen, Switzerland
    Zermatt, Switzerland
Diocese of London , Church of England
DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK
GB 0074 DS · Collection · 1742-2000

Records 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.

Diocese of Southwark , Church of England
DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER
GB 0074 DW · Collection · 1480-1936

Records 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.

Diocese of Winchester, Church of England
GB 0074 LMA/4567 · Collection · 1909-1926

Papers 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.

Doughty , Reverend , George Bell , d 1926 , rector of St Peter Cornhill
DUNSTABLE SYNAGOGUE
GB 0074 ACC/2712/DUS · Collection · 1948-1949

Records of Dunstable Synagogue, consisting of an account book.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Dunstable Synagogue
GB 1446 MS 50 · [1900-12]

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, comprise water-colours, drawings and photographs from the Balkans, [1900-1912], many of the pictures are annotated, the paintings and drawings are signed M.E. Durham, 1900 and 17 water-colours, 4 black and white drawings and 2 photographs are mounted. Images depicted include Monastery churches at Deèani and Ipek, 'Moslem' peasants at Podgorica and market places at Cetinje and Cattaro.

Durham , Mary Edith , 1863-1944 , Balkan traveller and author
DUTCH CHURCH, AUSTIN FRIARS
GB 0074 CLC/180 · Collection · 1462-1945

Records of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.

Dutch Church , Austin Friars, London
ACC/1388-12 · Collection · 1912-1958

Registers of marriages, 1912-1958.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/1388-11 · Collection · 1900-1972

Registers of marriages, 1900-1972.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/3011 · Collection · 1877-1970

Records of Earlsfield Congregational Church, 1877-1970, including Church Meeting minute books; Deacons' Meeting minute books; Sunday School minutes; financial statements; Church magazines and the financial accounts of the 9th Wandsworth Girl Guide Company.

Congregational Church of England and Wales