Records of the parish of All Saints, Surrey Square, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of preachers; financial records; correspondence, faculties and plans relating to maintenance work on the church building, parsonage and the church hall; records of All Saints National School; map of the parish.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Kennington Park Road, Newington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Churchwardens' records; minutes of the Vestry, the Parochial Church Council and the Church Building Committee; registers of preachers; financial records; records relating to the construction of the new church including plans; papers relating to St Mary Newington National Schools; parish magazines.
Also minutes of the Governors and Guardians of the Poor; removal orders; records of the workhouse including admission and discharge records; registers of children at the South Metropolitan District Schools; financial accounts relating to poor relief.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Matthew, Brixton Hill, Brixton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; registers of preachers and church services; pew registers; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' accounts and orders; papers relating to parish charities; papers relating to parish schools; plans of the church; maps of the parish; papers relating to tithes; papers relating to the churchyard, vaults and tombs.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Peter, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; registers of preachers and church services; Parochial Church Council minute books; papers relating to parish schools, charities and societies; and financial accounts.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Christ Church, Forest Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books and registers of church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; administrative papers; financial accounts; papers relating to church income; papers relating to church buildings including the parsonage and churchyard; and records regarding the Christ Church School.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Matthew, Saint Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, including baptism registers (1858 - 1966); marriage registers (1858 - 2007); banns of marriage registers; confirmation registers; service registers; orders of service; papers relating to church personnel; papers, correspondence and photographs relating to church buildings; minutes of the parochial church council and various committees; electoral registers; annual accounts; ledgers; churchwardens' accounts; offertory registers; correspondence and papers relating to financial matters; records relating to parish school; parish magazines; newsletters; papers relating to the history of the parish.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West, Fleet Steet, City of London. The records include parish registers (baptisms, marriages, banns, burials), Vestry minutes and Churchwardens' accounts, rate assessments and rentals, deeds and legal papers and records relating to the parish schools.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Andrew, Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park, including registers of baptisms and marriages; church services registers; incumbent's correspondence; financial accounts; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church; Parochial Church Council minutes; and papers relating to the parish school.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Stoke Newington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations, banns and church services; preachers' books; legal documents relating to church property; financial records and papers relating to parish expenditure; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to parochial schools; parish magazines and notices.
Also papers of the parish constable; records of poor relief distributed; papers of the Overseers of the Poor; papers of the Surveyors of Highways.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Matthias, Wordsworth Road, Stoke Newington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; registers of church services; financial records; papers relating to the parish schools; Trust records; parish magazines; records of church personnel; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; records regarding the church building, vicarage and church hall; papers of parish charities; and historical publications.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Immanuel, Streatham Common, including baptisms (1854-1965); marriages (1855-1966); banns of marriage (1854-1968); confirmations (1899-1900); church service registers (1859-1960); Vestry minutes (1860-1913); Parochial Church Council minutes (1913-1961); accounts (1931-1968); Immanuel Church School manager's minutes (1937-1961); cash books (1919-1943); correspondence, memoranda, plans and photographs.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Martin, West Drayton, including baptism, marriage and burial registers; registers of services; register of fees; registers of banns of marriage; churchwarden's accounts; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; papers relating to church rates; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes and accounts; papers relating to charity; papers relating to the parish school, including Manager's minutes, papers regarding rebuilding of the school and financial accounts; enclosure award; and papers of the Parish Committee.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Hanwell, including registers of baptisms, confirmations, banns, marriages and burials; legal papers relating to property ownership; papers relating to the rebuilding of the church; financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to church societies and committees including the St Mary's Youth Fellowship, the Reconstruction Committee, the St Mary League, and the Halls Committee; correspondence; papers relating to the war memorial; papers relating to charities including almshouses; papers relating to Hanwell National School. Some papers relate to Saint Mark, Hanwell, St Thomas, Hanwell and St Christopher, Hanwell.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Mary, Sunbury on Thames, including registers of baptisms, confirmations, banns, marriages and burials; service registers; papers relating to endowments; papers of the churchwardens including accounts, rates, and papers regarding the maintenance of the church and churchyard; Vestry meeting minutes; Overseers of the Poor financial accounts; papers relating to parish charities; papers relating to Sunbury National Schools including minutes; papers of Sunbury Parochial Committee; papers of the Church Rebuilding Campaign; papers relating to the cemetery; Enclosure Acts and awards; and maps of the parish.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of St Mary The Virgin, Monken Hadley, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, and services; visitors book; Vestry meeting minutes; papers of parish charities; papers relating to the School of Industry and the Sunday School; and Church Council minute book.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Paul, New Southgate, including registers of baptism and marriages; papers relating to income and endowments; papers of the Churchwardens relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; Parochial Church Council minutes and accounts of St Paul's Schools.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint James, Enfield Highway, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials (including war graves), confirmation and church services; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers of Saint James School including log books; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint Lawrence, New Brentford, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials; banns of marriage, and church services; papers relating to tithes and income; Churchwardens' papers; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings; Vestry minutes; papers relating to parish charities; minutes of the Trustees and managers of New Brentford Charity Schools (later the National Schools); National Schools log books and attendance registers; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including settlement examinations; Parochial Church Council minutes; parish magazines and photographs.
Sans titreRecords of Saint Michael-at-Bowes, Southgate, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; registers of church services; papers relating to the work of the clergy and church staff; papers regarding parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; Churchwardens' financial accounts; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building, churchyard and church hall; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to Sunday schools and church schools; papers of church societies; parish magazines.
Also papers of the mission churches of Saint Peter, Bounds Green; Saint Michael's, Tile Kiln Lane and Saint Mary the Virgin, Tottenhall.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of St Cuthbert, North Wembley, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; orders of service; sequestration documents; licences for music and dancing in the church hall; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; School admission book; Sunday School register; Choir register; and parish magazines and pamphlets.
Sans titrePapers of the Ilford Jewish Primary School, formerly the Stepney Jewish Primary School, including deeds; correspondence; Governors and Management Committee meeting minutes and papers; Buildings Committee minutes; minutes and correspondence relating to the Jewish Youth Club; minutes and correspondence relating to the move from Stepney to Ilford; and records relating to construction including papers of the architect, plans and maps.
Sans titreRecords of Jews' College (later known as the London School of Jewish Studies), including constitution; minutes of meetings of the College Council and various committees; minutes of annual general meetings; student attendance registers; student admission registers; reports on students; papers relating to exams; agreements relating to property; financial accounts; papers of staff; papers relating to teaching; plans; photographs; printed material. Also papers relating to the Library including meeting minutes and reports, agreements, correspondence and centenary celebrations; and papers relating to Northwold Road Synagogue include a congregation scrapbook, congregation attendance register and marriage certificates.
Sans titreMinutes of Quarterly Meetings, 1877-1891; minutes of the Chapel Trusts Liquidation Fund Committee, 1876-1877; minutes of the Circuit Committee for the Renovation of the Chapels in the Hoxton Circuit, 1882-1883; minutes of Local Preachers meetings, 1865-1892; Circuit Account Book, 1865-1890 and Circuit Schedule Book, 1874-1885.
Sans titreLog Book for the Girls School, 1863-1836.
Sans titreArchives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood comprising:
papers relating to the foundation of the Diocese including correspondence files concerning foundation, February-November 1917; Canon Burton's notes on the history of individual parishes in the diocese, 1917; general files relating to diocesan history, 1917-2003; files relating to Causes of Martyrs (beatification and canonization of local martyrs), 1917-2003;
Diocesan administrative papers relating to the Holy See, arranged by Vatican 'departments' including Propaganda Fide, Secretariat of State, Holy Office (Doctrine of the Faith), Congregation of the Council, Apostolic Penitentiary, Seminaries and Education, Bishops, Clergy, Religious, Liturgy (Rites), Sacraments, Saints, Varia (non-Christians, Christian unity, migrants, congresses/jubilees, communications, laity, miscellaneous) , and printed Papal documents, Apostolic Delegate/Nuncio (from 1938-), Bishops' Roman Agency/Dataria, Papal blessings, and Ad Limina Visits (regular visits of the Diocesan Bishop to Rome), 1917-2003;
general correspondence of the Bishops of Brentwood, and some biographical information, including Bernard Nicholas Ward, Apostolic Administrator 1917, Bishop 1917-1920; Arthur Doubleday, 1920-1951; George Andrew Beck, Coadjutor, 1948-1951, Bishop, 1951-1955 includes papers relating his work on Catholic education; Bernard Patrick Wall, Bishop 1956-1969, includes material relating to Vatican II; Patrick J Casey, Bishop 1970-1980; and Thomas McMahon, Bishop 1980-present;
administrative papers relating to Hierarchies, (national and international) including the Synods of Bishops; English and Welsh Bishops, 1917- present; other Bishops, 1917- present; military ordinary and chaplains, 1917-present; Hierarchy meetings (includes some printed minutes from 1867, but is mainly 1917-present); Hierarchy Commissions and Committees; Jubilees and celebrations; National Pastoral Congress, 1980; Papal visit, 1982;
papers relating to the Episcopal and Curial administration, including finance and property, Trust funds, Episcopal Registers/Bishop's House/Diocesan Offices, Chancery and Vicar General, Ad Clerum and circulars, 1917-present; Pastoral letters to clergy and peoples, 1917-present; Diocesan Synods, 1950s, and Synods of other Dioceses; Council of Priests and National Conference of Priests, 1960s-present; Diocesan Pastoral councils, 1980s-present; Deanery Conferences (including some minutes) 1980s-present; Diocesan publications including Brentwood Diocesan Magazine, 1920-1921, Diocesan Newsletters, 1970s-1980s; Diocesan Newspapers, 1980s-present; Diocesan Year Book, 1952-present; press cuttings, 1910-present;
files relating to clergy serving within the Diocese Pre-1917 Clergy; Diocesan Clergy: General; and Diocesan Clergy - deceased; non-Diocesan Clergy, on loan, Chaplaincies, temporary faculties and applications refused; Clergy Funds and Associations; [1875]-present; among the priests of the diocese were John Carmel Heenan (Bishop of Leeds 1951-1957, Archbishop of Liverpool 1957-1963, Archbishop of Westminster 1963-1975, Cardinal 1965), John Petit (Bishop of Menevia 1947-1972), Brian Foley (Bishop of Lancaster 1962-1985), and Alfred Gilby (1901-1998) (Catholic Chaplain to Cambridge University, 1932-1965);
papers relating to the Chapter of Canons, advisors to the Bishop, 1917-1984;
files relating to individual parishes within the Diocese including official documents such as reports and visitation returns, [1910]-present; general parish files; and history and correspondence, 1917-present;
administrative papers relating to other Diocesan Officials and Commissions including Diocesan Travelling Mission (to remote areas) and Private Chapels, 1952-1969; justice and peace, 1970s-present; ecumenism, 1970s-present; liturgy and music, 1970s-present; art and architecture/Historic Churches Commissions; pilgrimages, 1950s-present; Pastoral, Social Welfare and Youth, 1970s-present;
administrative papers relating to Roman Catholic education including the Director of Vocations, Ecclesiastical Education Fund; and students files for Students for the priesthood, 1917-present; dimissorials (non-diocesan subjects); Senior Seminaries, 1917-present; Junior Seminaries 1917-present; other institutions, 1917-present; administrative papers of the Schools Commission / Director of Education, 1930s-present; papers relating to primary, secondary and independent schools in London Boroughs and Essex, mainly 1917-present; and administration of the Brentwood Religious Education Services (BRES) and catechetics, 1974-present;
papers relating to Catholic societies, non-Catholic societies and social issues such as the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Catholic Women's League, Knights of St Columba, Legion of Mary etc, 1917-present;
papers relating to Religious orders within the Diocese, and their members, including men religious and women religious; secular institutes, religious: general, and abortive foundations;
papers relating to Diocesan buildings and architecture, including general files; files relating to the Cathedral; and files relating to war damage, 1940s-1950s;
maps and plans, mainly of the local area and diocesan buildings, [1900]-present;
photographs, 19th and 20th century, including portraits of clergy, and church and chapel buildings interior and exteriors;
video and audio recordings of ceremonies and events;
miscellaneous papers including manuscript writings of William Joseph Petre (1847-1893), 13th Baron Petre (Monsignor Lord Petre), priest, peer and educationalist;
published works including Catholic Directory, 1850s-present; Brentwood Diocesan Directory, 1952-present; Catholic Who's Who, 1915-1952; and copies of published histories of parishes of the diocese; and volumes from the libraries of the Bishops of Brentwood;
some material deposited with the Diocese by parishes includes of Harwich Roman Catholic Parish registers of Baptisms, 1864-1955; Confirmations, 1881-1947; Marriages, 1865-1952; deaths, 1864-1879; and parish notice books; Thorndon Park Roman Catholic Parish, (closed in 1946) registers including baptisms, 1791-1816, 1856-1882; and church marriages, 1857-1941; Witham Roman Catholic Parish register including baptisms, 1839-1957 and church marriages, 1841.
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