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Records of the church of Saint George the Martyr, Borough High Street, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; burial report books; burials fee books; church services registers; orders of service; maps showing parish boundaries; faculties, plans and other papers relating to the restoration and maintenance of the church building, particularly after war damage; Churchwardens' financial records and other accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books and correspondence.

Papers relating to civil functions including vouchers of the Surveyors of Highways; papers relating to poor relief; settlement examinations and removal orders; Overseers of the Poor vouchers; papers relating to the workhouse.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Larcom Street, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; preachers' books; registers of church services; financial accounts and inventories.

Papers of Lady Margaret Church, Chatham Street, Walworth including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; church services registers; papers of church clubs and societies; faculties; a history of the church; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Lant Street, Southwark; including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; registers of services; faculties, plans and other papers relating to church building alterations and maintenance; sequestration papers; photographs; annual reports; and parochial statistics.

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, New Kent Road, Newington, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; church services registers; Parochial Church Council minutes and financial records.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Liverpool Grove, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; clerical registers; church services registers; minutes of Trustees for Executing Act for 'building two new churches in St Mary Newington'; financial records; reports of Diocesan Inspectors; papers relating to St Peter's Walworth Schools; registers of the Wellington College Mission; papers relating to the churchyard including plan of burial ground; plans relating to the post-war reconstruction of the church; and parochial statistics.

Records relating to the parish of Saint Saviour, Borough High Street, Southwark; also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour and Saint Mary Overy. This is a large and extensive collection and it is recommended that researchers consult the detailed catalogue. Summary of some of the major holdings:

• papers relating to the maintenance of the church building including bills for work and repairs done in the church, contracts, and faculties;
• token books;
• marriage licences and registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials;
• financial records;
• records of the Vestry including minute books and papers of the clerks;
• minutes of other committees;
• legal documents relating to parish properties including leases, agreements, conveyances and deeds;
• papers relating to legal cases;
• papers relating to poor relief including petitions to the wardens from the poor and sick asking for assistance;
• plans and drawings of parish properties;
• records of constables and other parish officers;
• records relating to local taxation including poor rates and church rates;
• papers of parochial charities;
• papers relating to Saint Saviour's Free Grammar School;
• registers of apprenticeship indentures;
• papers relating to Parliamentary elections for the Borough of Southwark, including lists of persons entitled to vote;
• papers relating to Borough Market;
• records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Southwark, including financial accounts and depositions.

Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, Villa Street, Walworth Common, including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; church services registers; and papers relating to parish properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Rectory Square, Stepney, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages and burials; tithes books; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of the Rural Deanery of Stepney; papers of parochial charities; newspaper cuttings; photographs and newsletters.

Register of baptisms from the East London Mission to the Jews, Commercial Road, Stepney.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Burdett Road, Limehouse, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages and church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Olave, Hanbury Street, Mile End Old Town, comprising a register of baptisms; a register of marriages and a plan of the parish.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Dock Street, Stepney, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages and church services; Parochial Church Council minute books; correspondence; legal documents relating to parish properties (including mortgages); citations and faculties; papers relating to the parish schools; plans of the parish; parish magazines; photographs; and histories.

Register of baptisms for the parish of Saint Saviour and the Cross, Wellclose Square, Stepney.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Aden Grove, Stoke Newington, comprising registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; parish magazines; and a preachers' book.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Gloucester Drive, Finsbury Park, including registers of baptisms and marriages; registers of church services; papers relating to parish boundaries; records relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; financial accounts; minutes of the Vestry and the Parochial Church Council, and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Alban, Pretoria Road, Streatham Park, including baptism registers (1888-1963), marriage registers (1888-1975), banns of marriage registers (1977-1992), confirmation registers (1885-1933), service registers, parochial returns, orders of services, photographs and correspondence related to church personnel, deeds, correspondence and plans related to church, vicarage and church halls, Parochial Church Council meeting minutes, Standing Commitee minutes, annual accounts, ledgers, bequests, and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Lavenham Road, Southfields, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; statistics; faculties, correspondence and plans relating to the maintenance of the church building; Parochial Church Council minutes and reports; financial papers; parish magazines; photographs; and papers of church societies.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Union Grove, Clapham, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Faith, Ebner Street, Wandsworth, including baptism registers (1880-1948); marriage registers (1884-1964); banns registers (1933-1963); service registers (1883-1991); Vestry minutes, Parochial Church Council minutes (1962-2004); school managers' minutes (1984-1988); accounts; correspondence; magazines; service sheets; plans; and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Mitcham Lane, West Streatham, including registers of baptisms and marriages; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; financial accounts; minutes of the Church Building Fund Committee and other papers relating to the church construction and maintenance; papers relating to parish boundaries and papers relating to church societies.

Records of the parish of Saint Leonard, Streatham High Road, Streatham, including papers relating to a legal dispute; financial accounts; registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; papers relating to tithes; Parochial Church Council minutes; church services registers; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church including faculties and specifications; administrative papers; and papers relating to the parish schools.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; registers of church services; financial accounts; papers relating to alterations and maintenance of the church building; administrative papers; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to parish charities and societies.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Balham High Road, Balham, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; preachers' books; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute book; financial accounts; parish magazines; administrative records; faculties and plans relating to the construction and maintenance of the church; papers relating to parish boundary alterations; papers relating to tithes; records of the parish schools; orders of service and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint Nicholas, Church Lane, Tooting Graveney, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; burial fees books; Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens records; faculties, plans and other papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings; and papers of Tooting Educational Charities.

Records of the parish of the Holy Redeemer, Streatham Vale, comprising registers of marriages and registers of baptisms.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Clapham Common North Side, Clapham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; church services registers; Trustees minutes; Vestry minutes; annual parochial reports; papers relating to the construction of the church; financial and administrative papers; papers relating to tithes; records of the parish schools; parish magazines; curates' licences; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers of the Parochial Church Council.

Papers relating to the workhouse; settlement examinations; poor rate assessments; financial accounts of the Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Highways Surveyors; and other papers relating to poor relief.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Court Road, Mottingham, comprising altered apportionments of tithe rent charges.

Registers of baptisms and marriages for the parish of Saint Saviour, Middle Park Avenue, Eltham.

Letters written by James Smetham, 1853-1877, mainly to William Davies, concerning his work, schemes to raise money and his religious beliefs. Smetham called his letters "ventilators" and they often took the form of handmade notebooks with their contents resembling diaries or commonplace books. Other correspondents include Rev Thomas Akroyd, Quintin Hogg (1845-1903), Charles Mansford, Charles Gabriel Dante Rossetti (1828-1882), John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Frederic James Shields (1833-1911). Also letters to Sarah Smetham, his widow, from William Davies, 1889-1895.

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of legal papers, 1686, mainly relating to the attempts of King James II to increase his powers as the Supreme Head of the Anglican Church, including papers appointing the Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, 17 Jul 1686, and their proceedings against Henry Compton, Bishop of London, 9 Aug-6 Sep 1686; proceedings in the Court of King's Bench against Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, 1686, (where the judges found in favour of the king's power to excuse individuals from the Test Oath); observations on the case of customs cited in the Reports of Sir Edward Coke...of divers resolutions and judgments (W Lee, London, 1658), 1686; and notes on proceedings in the Court of King's Bench against Samuel Johnson, [1686].

Papers of Abbott, 1946-1995, mainly relating to theological training and including notes for lectures, [1946-1948, 1957, 1964], mainly given by Abbott at King's College London, on moral and pastoral theology; texts of broadcast sermons, 1947-1958, mainly on the BBC Third Programme, including three sermons broadcast from the Chapel of King's College in Lent 1958; texts of sermons, 1959-1974, delivered at Westminster Abbey, including a sermon on the occasion of Abbott's installation as Dean of Westminster, 30 Nov 1959; texts of discussion notes, meditations and lectures, 1960-1976, relating to discussions of the St Faith's Fellowship, Westminster, and other schools of prayer, including notes on forgiveness, Christ and the permissive society, the prayers of reparation and the Holy Spirit, atheists and agnostics; manuscript notes, [1959-1966], relating to discussions held by a group at occasional weekend retreats, on subjects including The life of prayer (J.M.Dent and Sons, London and Toronto, 1927) by Baron Friedrich von Huegel, The four loves (Geoffrey Bles, London, 1960) by Clive Staples Lewis, spiritual direction, pain, temptation and intercession; papers, 1946-1965, relating to a retreat at Pleshey, Essex, mainly comprising manuscript notes; miscellaneous published and unpublished texts of lectures, broadcasts and sermons, [1947-1975], including notes for lectures on the theology of the Eucharist, given at King's College London in [1950], on the meaning of ordination, given to students at Gilmore House in [1955], on the problem of suffering, given to London Women Workers in 1964, and the dilemma of contemporary spirituality, given to Sion College in 1964; schedule of notes for classes, for use by clergy preparing young people for Confirmation, [1960-1969]; text of sermon by Canon Eric Arthur James at the Memorial Eucharist for Abbott at Lincoln Theological College in 1985, and correspondence, 1985-1987, of Dean Sydney Evans, King's College London, in preparation for the writing of an entry about Abbott for the Dictionary of National Biography including a draft entry and a copy of entries concerning Abbott in the Keble College Record; list of Canon Abbott's papers compiled by Ursula Grundy, 1995.

Records, 1764-1977, of Council for World Mission predecessor bodies, including records of the London Missionary Society, 1764-1966, the Commonwealth Missionary Society, 1836-1966, and some records of the Congregational Council for World Mission from 1966.

Records, 1848-1984, of the Melanesian Mission, including minute books; correspondence, journals and diaries of pioneer missionaries including R H Codrington and J C Patteson; correspondence of more recent missionaries; logs relating to the Mission vessels including the first 'Southern Cross' log book, 1855. Material relating to the Church of Melanesia includes the proceedings of the Provincial Synod from its inception in 1975, conference reports, and lists of missionaries from the Mission's beginnings to the 1920s. Printed materials include the Southern Cross Log, 1895-1954, 1963-1973, and Annual Reports, 1864-1939 (1917 and 1923 missing). There are also a large number of photographs and manuscript maps of the Diocese of the Melanesian Mission dating from 1875 onwards.

Letters, 1911-1912, from Laura Beckingsale, written in diary form to colleagues in London describing her experiences during the Chinese Revolution of 1911-1912, in Wuchang and Hankow, where she worked for the London Missionary Society.

Miscellaneous papers, 1915-1973, of Mabel Shaw, including her correspondence (1930-1973) and circular letters; personal papers; prayer texts and poems; reports, including Decenial Report on the Women's and Girl's Work in Mbereshi (1930-1940); and miscellaneous photographs from Mbereshi.

Papers, 1919-1962, of Margaret Katherine Sabin, including notes, letters and photographs. Letters include those written to her family (1919-1950), describing work at the school and mission station in Mbereshi. Also includes photographs of Mbereshi.

Papers, 1924-1962, of Reginald John Beagarie Moore, comprising correspondence and papers relating to his missionary work in Africa. Includes annual reports of the United Missions in the Copperbelt (1937-1940); reports of his work at Mindolo (1934-1939, not 1936-1937); typescript copies of his publications; copies of published articles; and photographs of Copperbelt scenes. Also includes a copy of Moore's anthropological study The Witchdoctor's Prescription.

Photocopy of a typescript transcript of the diary, 1839-1842, 1845, 1855-1859 (some gaps), of the Rev Robert Brooking, describing his missionary work, experiences, and local customs in west Africa and Canada, including transcript of a letter from T B Freeman, Cape Coast (west Africa), to Robert Brooking, 1855, describing the work of the mission there. With an article [1980s] by Helen Allen on the life of Robert Brooking.

Five notebooks containing the memoirs of James Sibree, 1836-1879, 1913-1926, recording his early life in Hull, family history, training at Spring Hill, missionary work in Madagascar and in Vizagapatam, India, with the London Missionary Society, and his later years.

Material, 1930s-1990s, relating to southern Africa and the work of Cecil Edward Seager. Includes a video and transcript of early cine-film from the period in which Seager was stationed at Dombodema and Tjimali (1930s-1940s); correspondence (1933-1994); press cuttings; and typescripts of a play written by Seager entitled A Christian Cavalcade (1948).

Diary, 1825-1827, of the Rev William Fidler, describing his voyage from Bristol to St Vincent accompanied by his wife Anna and other Methodist missionaries, and containing detailed descriptions of events and places during his first two years in the West Indies, and religious reflections.

Records, 1842-1972, of the Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions Committee (or English Presbyterian Mission), comprising:
Home Office (central administration) papers, consisting of general correspondence, including minutes and office copies of material, Finance Committee papers, including minutes, 1920-1937, files of correspondence and reports with Internal and External Organisations, and annual field reports from missionaries overseas;
Overseas papers from the various mission fields, consisting of general correspondence and reports, field reports and correspondence from individuals, and reports concerning particular hospitals, schools and Institutions;
Women's Missionary Association papers;
publications, other printed materials, and some photographic material.

Microfiche copy of missionary correspondence in the archive of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, 1827-1935, comprising incoming correspondence from missionaries in the field in Algeria (Kabylia), 1885-1894, Cameroun, 1919-1935, Congo-Gabon, 1888-1935, Lesotho, 1827-1935, Madagascar, 1894-1935, Senegal, 1862-1935, Togo, 1930-1935, Zambia, 1880-1935, New Caledonia/Maré (Loyalty Islands), 1880-1884, 1890-1935, and Tahiti, 1865-1935.

Papers, c1917-1948, of William Sheldon Ridge, comprising photographs, manuscripts of books containing material used for his lectures on Chinese international relations, and miscellaneous papers. Includes papers relating to his wife Frances.

Papers, 1953-1986, dating predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s, on Melanesian culture, government and geography and the work of the church in the New Hebrides, collected by the Rt Rev Derek Rawcliffe.

Records of the Staines Congregational Church, Thames Street, 1802-1955, including release in fee for parcel of land at Staines with newly built meeting house of the protestant dissenters known as Independents, 1802, with further endorsements relating to the appointment of new trustees, 1803-1867; mortgage for the Independent Chapel and yard, 1838; further mortgages and conveyances for the Independent Chapel, 1845-1879; appointment of new trustees, 1902 and 1923 and certificate issued to the Congregational (Independent) Church, Thames Street, Staines certifying it as a place of meeting for religious worship, 1925.

Records of the Teddington Methodist Circuit, 1861-1964, including Circuit Meeting minute books, Local Preacher minute books and circuit schedule books; and records of the Circuit's constituent churches including registers of baptism and marriage; minutes of various committees including Leader's Meeting minutes, Trustees Meeting minutes and Finance Committee minutes; financial accounts; magazines; correspondence regarding the building of a new chapel at Teddington, 1879; correspondence regarding rebuilding Teddington Methodist Church after bomb damage, 1944; correspondence, reports and plans regarding building a youth hall at the Methodist Church, Sunbury, 1954-1958; correspondence and plans relating to the building of a Methodist Church in Hampton, 1961-1964 and papers regarding the building of a Methodist Church in Hanworth, 1951-1962.

Registers of marriages, 1934-1960.

Registers of marriages, 1900-1972.