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SAINT MATTHEW, YIEWSLEY: HIGH STREET, HILLINGDON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 DRO/154

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT MATTHEW, YIEWSLEY: HIGH STREET, HILLINGDON

Date(s): 1859-1986

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of St Matthew, Yiewsley | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The church of Saint Matthew was founded as a chapel of ease in 1858. A parish was assigned in 1874 from the southern portion of Hillingdon parish. The 1858 building was converted into a Lady chapel when the church was enlarged in 1898. The vicar of Saint John the Baptist, Hillingdon, is patron.

From: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4: Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood with Southall, Hillingdon with Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow with Pinner (1971), pp. 87-91.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Yiewsley, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; preachers' books; correspondence, faculties, plans, and reports relating to the maintenance of the church, vicarage, church hall and churchyard; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; other Committee minutes; financial accounts; parish magazine and papers relating to parish festivals and events.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged into 11 series: 01 - Parish Registers; 02 - Church Services/Work of Clergy; 03 - Church Personnel; 04 - Church Buildings: Church; 05 - Church Buildings: Vicarage; 06 - Church Buildings: Church Hall; 07 - Churchyard; 08 - Parish Administration; 09 - Parish Finance; 10 - Schools; 11 - Printed Material.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright for these records rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in November 2005.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: March to April 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Banns register | Marriage records | Documents | Information sources
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church architecture | Architecture
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Church services | Religious practice | Religious activities
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Conferences | Group communication | Communication process
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Parish councils | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Preaching | Religious practice | Religious activities
Vestry | Parish meetings | Meetings | Group communication | Communication process
Meetings x Conferences
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St Matthew | Yiewsley | Church of England

Places
Yiewsley | Hillingdon | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe