Collection GB 0074 ACC/0590 - SAINT MARY, HARROW: CHURCH HILL, HARROW

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 ACC/0590

Title

SAINT MARY, HARROW: CHURCH HILL, HARROW

Date(s)

  • 1851-1852 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

0.1 linear metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

In medieval times Saint Mary's was one of the most important churches in Middlesex. There is a twelfth-century tower with tall octagonal lead spires. The nave was re-built in the thirteenth-century when the rector was Elias de Dereham, the canon of Salisbury. Various additions and embellishments took place under John Byrkhead, rector from 1437 to 1468, then restored heavily in the nineteenth century. Many brasses including a small brass of John Lyons, founder of Harrow School.

Archival history

GB 0074 ACC/0590 1851-1852 Collection 0.1 linear metres Church of England , Parish of St Mary, Harrow

In medieval times Saint Mary's was one of the most important churches in Middlesex. There is a twelfth-century tower with tall octagonal lead spires. The nave was re-built in the thirteenth-century when the rector was Elias de Dereham, the canon of Salisbury. Various additions and embellishments took place under John Byrkhead, rector from 1437 to 1468, then restored heavily in the nineteenth century. Many brasses including a small brass of John Lyons, founder of Harrow School.

Deposited in 1956.

Maps of the parish of Harrow on the Hill, surveyed for the purposes of the parochial assessment, 1851-1852.

ACC/0590/001-003: Map sheets; ACC/0590/004: book of reference.

Available for general access.

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

English

Fit.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

See also references ACC/0936 and DRO/003.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

March to April 2010. Church of England Government Public administration Local government Administrative units Parishes Ecclesiastical parishes Finance Fiscal policy Taxation Local taxation Information sources Documents Parish records Architecture Buildings Religious buildings Churches Anglicanism Protestantism Christianity Ancient religions Religions Maps Visual materials Religion Parish of St Mary , Harrow , Church of England London England UK Western Europe Europe Harrow (district) Harrow Middlesex Primary documents Catholicism

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in 1956.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Maps of the parish of Harrow on the Hill, surveyed for the purposes of the parochial assessment, 1851-1852.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

ACC/0590/001-003: Map sheets; ACC/0590/004: book of reference.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

See also references ACC/0936 and DRO/003.

Finding aids

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Status

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Language(s)

  • English

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