IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P93/MTW2
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT MATTHEW, LIMEHOUSE FIELDS: SALMON LANE, TOWER HAMLETS
Date(s): 1871-1954
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.24 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Matthew, Limehouse Fields | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The church of Saint Matthew originated in a London Diocesan Home Mission founded in the 1860s in the parish of Saint John, Halley Street, (P93/JN1). The permanent church was built in 1871 and assigned a parish in the same year. Services had to compete with the noise of traffic in Commercial Road, the Eastern Counties Railway and the Rotherhithe Tunnel. The church was gutted by an incendiary bomb in 1941 and the parish was united with Saint John's, Halley Street. The ruins of the building were demolished.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Salmon Lane, Limehouse Fields, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council meetings; financial accounts; electoral registers; papers of church societies; correspondence; papers relating to parish events; photographs and faculties.
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 in November 1955. Further records were deposited in March 1977.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2010.