Collection GB 0074 DD/0818 - SAINT PAUL, HAMMERSMITH: QUEEN CAROLINE STREET, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 DD/0818

Title

SAINT PAUL, HAMMERSMITH: QUEEN CAROLINE STREET, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

Date(s)

  • 1656-1990 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

9 linear metres

Context area

Name of creator

Parish of Saint Paul , Hammersmith , Church of England

Biographical history

Until 1834 Hammersmith was a hamlet within the parish of Fulham, the mother church being All Saints. In 1629 the leading inhabitants of Hammersmith, including the Earl of Mulgrave and Nicholas Crispe, successfully petitioned the Bishop of London for a chapel of ease to be built. The chapel was concentrated by Bishop Laud, later Archbishop of Canterbury, on 7 June 1631, and a perpetual curacy was established. In 1834 Hammersmith became a distinct and separate parish and the chapel of St Paul became the parish church.

In 1978 proposals were implemented for a Local Ecumenical Project in Hammersmith. On the closure of the Broadway United Reform church building St Paul's became the home of a united congregation of Anglican and United Reform Church members.

From the seventeenth century the Hammersmith "side" of the parish was administered separately from the Fulham "side"; each side appointing its own officers and levying its own rates. The Hammersmith curate kept his own registers of baptisms marriages and burials but the entries were also recorded in the registers of All Saints Fulham until 1834.

By the 1860s the chapel was too small for its congregation and a public subscription was raised to restore and enlarge the building. The West London Observer of 20 February 1864 reported the proposed alterations which were completed in the following year. In 1882 plans were drawn up for a new church on the same site. It was built in stages the first section being consecrated on 13 October 1883. Major road construction in the second half of the twentieth century resulted in the loss of part of the churchyard the church hall and St Paul's Church Schools which were relocated to Worlidge Street.

Repository

The London Archives

Archival history

GB 0074 DD/0818 1656-1990 Collection 9 linear metres Parish of Saint Paul , Hammersmith , Church of England

Until 1834 Hammersmith was a hamlet within the parish of Fulham, the mother church being All Saints. In 1629 the leading inhabitants of Hammersmith, including the Earl of Mulgrave and Nicholas Crispe, successfully petitioned the Bishop of London for a chapel of ease to be built. The chapel was concentrated by Bishop Laud, later Archbishop of Canterbury, on 7 June 1631, and a perpetual curacy was established. In 1834 Hammersmith became a distinct and separate parish and the chapel of St Paul became the parish church.

In 1978 proposals were implemented for a Local Ecumenical Project in Hammersmith. On the closure of the Broadway United Reform church building St Paul's became the home of a united congregation of Anglican and United Reform Church members.

From the seventeenth century the Hammersmith "side" of the parish was administered separately from the Fulham "side"; each side appointing its own officers and levying its own rates. The Hammersmith curate kept his own registers of baptisms marriages and burials but the entries were also recorded in the registers of All Saints Fulham until 1834.

By the 1860s the chapel was too small for its congregation and a public subscription was raised to restore and enlarge the building. The West London Observer of 20 February 1864 reported the proposed alterations which were completed in the following year. In 1882 plans were drawn up for a new church on the same site. It was built in stages the first section being consecrated on 13 October 1883. Major road construction in the second half of the twentieth century resulted in the loss of part of the churchyard the church hall and St Paul's Church Schools which were relocated to Worlidge Street.

Deposited at Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local Studies 19 March and 5 May 1993.

Transferred from Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre in 2015.

Records of the parish of St Paul, Hammersmith, including parish registers, registers of church services, PCC and vestry minutes, financial records, and records relating to staff, parish boundaries and benefice, church fabric, church hall, parochial charities and church schools.

NB: The collection includes records previously catalogued as DD/0071 and DD/0746.

Arranged in sections as follows:

DD/0818/01: Registers of confirmation and banns

DD/0818/02: Registers of service

DD/0818/03: Staff

DD/0818/04: Parish boundaries

DD/0818/05: Benefice

DD/0818/06: Church fabric

DD/0818/07: Church Hall

DD/0818/08: Finance

DD/0818/09: Vestry

DD/0818/10: Parochial Church Council

DD/0818/11: Parochial Charities

DD/0818/12: Church schools

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Copyright is held by the Depositor.
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited at Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local Studies 19 March and 5 May 1993.

Transferred from Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre in 2015.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of the parish of St Paul, Hammersmith, including parish registers, registers of church services, PCC and vestry minutes, financial records, and records relating to staff, parish boundaries and benefice, church fabric, church hall, parochial charities and church schools.

NB: The collection includes records previously catalogued as DD/0071 and DD/0746.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged in sections as follows:

DD/0818/01: Registers of confirmation and banns

DD/0818/02: Registers of service

DD/0818/03: Staff

DD/0818/04: Parish boundaries

DD/0818/05: Benefice

DD/0818/06: Church fabric

DD/0818/07: Church Hall

DD/0818/08: Finance

DD/0818/09: Vestry

DD/0818/10: Parochial Church Council

DD/0818/11: Parochial Charities

DD/0818/12: Church schools

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Conditions governing access

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright is held by the Depositor.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

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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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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