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        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
        CHRIST CHURCH, TRIESTE
        GB 0074 CLC/342 · Collection · 1827-1950

        Records of Christ Church, Trieste, Italy, comprising minutes, accounts and correspondence. They were catalogued in 1964 and 1988 by members of Guildhall Library staff.

        Christ Church , Trieste, Italy
        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
        CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
        GB 0074 O/272 · Collection · 1902-1926

        Records of the Church Commissioners, 1902-1926, including issue of 'Illustrated Church News', 1902; annual reports of 'The Home Club and Work', for the attempted cure of 'hooliganism' in North and East London, 1903-1904; annual report of Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1903; annual report of Saint Mark, Whitechapel, 1911; bazaar catalogues and magazine from Saint Etheldreda, Fulham Palace Gates, 1911-1913; annual report of Stepney Council of Public Welfare, 1912; article on the history of Saint George in the East, Whitechapel, 1912; and article on the work of City churches, 1926.

        Church Commissioners , Church of England
        GB 0074 CLC/343 · Collection · 1855-1960

        Records of Saint Peter and Saint Sigfrid Anglican Church, Stockholm, Sweden comprising register of services, 1855-1907, with notes and certificates of baptisms, marriages and burials 1856-1907 (Ms 22402), and register of baptisms, 1916-60 (Ms 23642). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1987-8.

        St Peter and St Sigfrid Anglican Church , Stockholm, Sweden
        GB 0074 CLC/344 · Collection · 1865-1978

        Records of the Church of the Ascension, Seville, Spain, comprise: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1865-1936 (Ms 21028) and chaplain's book, 1948-78 (Ms 21029). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1984.

        Church of the Ascension , Seville, Spain
        GB 0074 CLC/345 · Collection · 1908-1972

        Service registers for the Church of the Ascension, Stresa, Italy.

        Church of the Ascension , Stresa, Italy
        GB 0074 CLC/346 · Collection · 1817-1877

        Register of baptisms, marriages and burials at the Church of the Holy Cross, Palermo, Italy.

        Church of the Holy Cross , Palermo, Italy
        GB 0074 CLC/347 · Collection · 1924-1935

        Service register for the Church of the Holy Ghost, Genoa, Italy.

        Church of the Holy Ghost , Genoa, Italy
        GB 0074 CLC/348 · Collection · 1872-1960

        Records of the Church of the Holy Redeemer and All Saints, Viareggio, Italy, comprise: register of burials, service register, minutes, correspondence and accounts. They were catalogued in 1989 by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

        Church of the Holy Redeemer and All Saints , Viareggio, Italy
        GB 0074 CLC/349 · Collection · 1862-1986

        Records of the Church of the Resurrection, Bucharest, Romania, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; banns book; service registers; and financial accounts.

        The register MS23634 refers to baptisms, marriages and burials in places outside Bucharest. It is possible the ceremonies recorded in the registers MS24118, MS24119 and MS24120 likewise took place outside Bucharest, although this is not clear from the volumes.

        Church of the Resurrection , Bucharest, Romania
        GB 0120 WMS/Amer.140 · 1859-[1920]

        Journals, account-books and note-books by a Tsimshian Native American: with reminiscences of his early life; extracts by Sir Henry Wellcome from the journals 1875-1905; and a 'List of journals, account books and other memorandum books of Arthur Wellington Clah', with brief notes by Wellcome on the development of writing and culture.

        The journal series was intended to be a history of his people: it includes daily weather-notes, regular pious interjections, and much sporadic material on his life and work, on epidemics, residual potlatch ceremonies, Native American relations with whites, and on land-claims. Produced at Port Simpson, Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; at New Metlakahtla, Alaska, U.S.A.; and at other locations.

        Clah , Arthur Wellington , 1831-1916
        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
        GB 1556 WL 1310 · 20th century

        Papers of Chaja Cohn comprise the story of Vogelei Bilekowicz, who describes the persecution and murder by the Nazis of members of her Jewish community in Przemyst, Poland, and the subsequent exodus of her and her family; the story of Esther Jonas-Leiner-Bauer, Jewish refugee from Hamburg; the story of Alfons and Margarete Pietrowski, Jewish refugees from Posen, Poland and miscellaneous stories.

        Cohn , Chaja , fl 1997
        GB 0096 MS 686 · c1965

        The volume, c 1965, contains an unpublished typescript of Food of the Gods: Studies in Religion, written by Rev. Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collcott.

        Collcott , Ernest Edgar Vyvyan , fl 1950-1970 , clergyman
        GB 0096 MS 475 · 1646-1647

        Legal papers created by the Committee for Plundered Ministers, 1646-1647, relating to the trial for delinquency of Dr. Henry Watkins, Rector of Sutton-upon-Brailes, Gloucestershire, including the following.

        1. Copy, certified by John Crisp, clerk, of depositions of witnesses taken at Banbury between January and March 1647. (8 leaves. 12" x 7¾").
        2. Copy of depositions of witnesses taken at Gloucester between March and November 1647, with a copy of the answer of Dr. Watkins to the charge exhibited against him, 8 May 1647. (18 leaves. 12" x 7¾").
        3. Copy, certified by Francis Harris, clerk of the court, of further depositions taken and cross-examinations made, October 1647. (2 leaves. 13¾ x 12").
        4. Copy, certified by John Phelpes, of a resolution of Parliament of 11 November 1647 that the wives and children of persons suffering sequestration shall have a fifth part allowed to them; signed by Henry Elsynge, clerk of the House of Commons. (Single sheet. 12" x 7¾").
        5. Interrogatories exhibited by Dr. Henry Watkins to certain witnesses produced by him before the Committee [of Plundered Ministers] appointed by ordinance of Parliament for the county of Gloucester. (4 leaves. 12" x 7¾").
        6. Petition by the inhabitants of 'Sutton under Brayles, Co.Glos.', to the Committee for Plundered Ministers to take action in the matter of Dr. Henry Watkins. (2 leaves. 12" x 7¾").
        7. Second copy, certified by John Phelpes, of articles exhibited against Dr. Watkins at the Committee of Plundered Ministers, 18 December 1646. (2 leaves. 12" x 7¾").
        Committee for Plundered Ministers
        GB 0120 MSS.1740-1744 · c 1660

        Commonplace books containing extracts on many subjects. The compiler may possibly have been a Quaker or Nonconformist, as there are many quotations from such authorities. By a comparison of the dates of the many works quoted-which are mainly by Dissenters, Baptists, etc., these volumes seem to have been compiled not long after 1660.

        Unknown
        GB 1556 WL 995 · Collection · 1940-1946

        Papers concerning conditions in Europe for Jews, 1940-1946, comprise a typescript copy of a diary written by a Jewish refugee from Berlin, describing life in Belgium during the occupation, 1944; copies of extracts from Luxemburg newspapers regarding press freedom; postcard of the Luxemburg Synagogue, which was burned down in 1940, 1940-[1945] and many typescript reports concerning conditions for Jews, notably including a report on the effect of the ceasefire agreement between Germany and France on people in the French camps and also on Jews in the occupied and unoccupied zones of France.

        Committee for Refugees in Holland
        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
        GB 0074 CLC/166 · Collection · 1968-1979

        Costa del Sol Chaplaincy records comprising account books and papers and service registers.

        Costa del Sol Anglican Chaplaincy , Spain
        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
        GB 0074 ACC/1611 · Collection · 1897-1934

        Confirmation notebook of the Reverend Frederick Goldsworthy Croom. Candidates came from Southwark, Bermondsey, and Shoreditch.

        Croom , Frederick Goldsworthy , fl 1897-1936 , clergyman
        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.

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

        Dalston Synagogue
        DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE
        GB 0074 ACC/1033 · Collection · 1714

        Printed copy of a sermon preached in the parish church of Finchley and at the parish church of St. Mary Aldermanbury by Nathaniel Marshall, Rector of Finchley and Lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury, on the subject of the death of Queen Anne.

        Marshall , Nathaniel , fl 1714 , Rector of Finchley
        GB 0096 MS 162 · 1829

        Manuscript volume containing a 'Declaration of the landholders of the parish of Clogherny', 1 Oct 1829, being a Protestant declaration in favour of law and order, religious toleration and loyalty to the constitution, acknowledged and reciprocated by the Catholic population of the area.

        Unknown
        LMA/4451 · Collection · 1827-1976

        Records of Denbigh Road Methodist Church, Kensington, 1827-1971, including registers of baptisms, 1854-1968; registers of marriage, 1859-1911; Leader's meeting minutes; financial accounts; rebuilding plans; papers and correspondence regarding property owned by the Church; Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society minute book; Sunday School Committee minutes; Denbigh Road Church Yearbook, 1960 and booklets, leaflets, flyers and programmes for events commemorating the 70th and 100th anniversaries of the Church.

        Also records of Lancaster Road Methodist Church, 1871-1975, including Trustee's Meeting minutes; Leader's Meeting minutes; Sunday School Committee minutes; Choir minutes; pulpit notices; collection journals; Dodsworth Sick Benefit Society papers and general correspondence. Also Trustee's minutes and Treasurer's accounts for Silchester Road Methodist Church, predecessor of Lancaster Road Church.

        Also preaching plans, schedule books and steward's account books for the Bayswater Circuit, 1861-1976; Local Preacher's minute book for the Kensington Circuit, 1882-1922; Trustee's minutes for Kensal Town Methodist Church, 1859-1926 and Trustee's meeting minutes for Dalling Road Methodist Church, 1875-1949.

        Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
        GB 0074 ACC/2805/05 · Collection · 1942-1950

        Records of the Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, 1942-1950, comprising correspondence with various individuals and organisations, including provincial congregations in Wales and England and congregations in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Palestine, Russia, South Africa and the United States of America.

        PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

        Lazarus , Harris Meyer , 1878-1962 , rabbi
        GB 0074 CLC/179 · Collection · 1664-1957

        Papers of the Devonshire Square (Particular) Baptist Church and predecessor church the Turners' Hall meeting. The records comprise memoranda and constitutional documents, minutes, records of membership and attendance, and financial material. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

        Devonshire Square (Particular) Baptist Church
        DIOCESE IN EUROPE
        GB 0074 CLC/318 · Collection · 1855-1996

        Records of the Church of England Diocese in Europe. The records mainly relate to the administration of the Diocese, the oversight of chaplaincies and relations both with other organisations working within the Diocese and with other churches on the Continent. The bishop established a Bishop's Council to act as an advisory body for the Diocese.

        It should be noted that many of the files are general and contain information on a variety of topics e.g. administration, finance and chaplaincy. This is especially true of the large series of correspondence between the diocesan administration and the chaplaincies, Ms32699/1-624.

        There is a 30 year closure period on the Diocese in Europe material except Mss 32667/1-12, 32687 and 32688/1-12 which have a 50 year closure period and Ms 32699/1-624 which are closed for 75 years.

        Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe , Church of England x Diocese in Europe , Church of England
        DIOCESE OF GIBRALTAR
        GB 0074 CLC/319 · Collection · 1825-2006

        The records of the Diocese of Gibraltar are concerned with the administration of the Diocese, the oversight of chaplaincies and relations with other organisations working within the Diocese and with other churches on the Continent.

        Material relating to the 1970s when John Satterthwaite was Bishop of Fulham and Gibraltar has been catalogued as part of the Diocese in Europe. Also series (such as confirmation registers, G.L. Ms 32690/1-6) which begin before 1970 but continue beyond that date have been catalogued as Diocese in Europe records.

        It should be noted that many of the records are general files and contain information on a variety of topics, e.g. administration, finance and chaplaincy. This is especially true of the large series of correspondence between the diocesan administration and the chaplaincies, Ms 32699/1-624. This correspondence relates to the Diocese in Europe and Jurisdiction of North and Central Europe as well as the Diocese of Gibraltar but has been grouped as one series for convenience.

        Note, Ms 32568/1-12 are closed for 50 years.

        Diocese of Gibraltar , Church of England
        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 ROCHESTER
        GB 0074 DR · Collection · 1620-1905

        Records of the Diocese of Rochester, 1620-1905. This collection contains faculties* and visitation records providing information about church buildings and lands; bishops transcripts and marriage warrants providing information about the work of the church; and orders in council and office papers, providing information about the administration of the diocese, especially reorganisation of administrative units within the diocese.

        *faculty in this sense refers to pecuniary ability, means, resources, possessions and property.

        Diocese of Rochester , 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 WESTERN CHINA
        GB 0074 CLC/417 · Collection · 1888-1951

        Records of the Diocese of Western China, comprising registers of baptisms and marriages and baptism and marriage certificate books.

        Diocese of Western China
        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 2108 KUAS49 · Collection · [1977-1984]

        Papers of Scott Dunbar, [1977-1984], largely comprise letters from Iris Murdoch to Dr Scott Dunbar and copies of his work. Letters from Iris Murdoch to Dunbar raise issues including religion, politics, structuralism, philosophy and also more personal matters including her mother's illness. The collection also includes an itinerary listing a series of ten lectures to be given by Iris Murdoch in October 1982 at the University of Edinburgh, the Gifford Lectureship in Natural Theology entitled 'Metaphysics as a guide to morals', possibly attended by Dunbar and a photocopy of a letter from Scott Dunbar to Murdoch answering a question at length: 'why are gay bars so sad?'.

        The collection also contains letters from other individuals to Dunbar including Duncan Averbach, 1989, discussing Dunbar's thesis and the difference between the human being and person; letter from Theodore Brotsis, enclosing a photograph of Theodore, 1986; published works by Dunbar including 'On art, morals, and religion: some reflections on the work of Iris Murdoch', Scott Dunbar, Religious Studies, Vol 14, No 4, 1978; typescript copies of works including 'Alcoholics Anonymous and Alcohol Dependency' Part One and Part Two and handwritten notes, presumably by Dunbar, including notes titled 'IVF and all that' and lecture notes including 'The Iliad Lectures'.

        Dunbar , Scott , d 2006 , philosopher, theologian and teacher
        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
        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/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