IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P89/PET
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT PETER, VERE STREET: VERE STREET, WESTMINSTER
Date(s): 1916-1984
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.48 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Church of St Peter, Vere Street | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Saint Peter's was known as the Oxford Chapel, which was constructed in 1724 to the design of Gibbs. It became Saint Peter's in 1832. The church never had a parish, but was a chapel-of-ease to All Souls, Langham Place (P89/ALS). In mid-Victorian times the incumbent Fredrick Denison Maurice was leader of a group of Christian Socialists which included Charles Kingsley.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the church of Saint Peter, Vere Street, comprising registers of marriages and baptisms and photographs of the church interior and exterior.
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 recieved in June 1959 and May 1994.
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.