IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P95/NIC
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT NICHOLAS, TOOTING GRAVENEY: CHURCH LANE, WANDSWORTH
Date(s): 1555-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4.06 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Nicholas, Tooting Graveney | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A place of worship at Tooting Graveney is mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The small Saxon church was demolished after a new Saint Nicholas church was erected a little to the west of the old church in 1833. It was designed by T.W. Atkinson with later additions 1873-1875.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
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.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been sorted into categories which reflect divisions between the different functions and operations of the parish and its administration. Order within these categories reflects chronology.
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 to 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 by the Rector in the Greater London Record Office, 16 September 1977.
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: April to June 2010.