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SAINT SIMON, PADDINGTON: SALTRAM CRESCENT, WESTMINSTER


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P87/SIM

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT SIMON, PADDINGTON: SALTRAM CRESCENT, WESTMINSTER

Date(s): 1895-1959

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.73 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of St Simon, Paddington | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint Simon's was constructed in 1898-99. The parish was assigned in the same year, taken from the parishes of Saint John the Evangelist, Hyde Park Corner (P87/JNE1) and Saint Jude, Lancefield Street (P87/JUD). The parishes of Saint Simon, Saint Luke, Fernhead Road, (P87/LUK1) and Saint Jude were united in 1952. Saint Luke's Church became the parish church of the united parish, redesignated as Saint Luke the Evangelist with Saint Simon and Saint Jude. Saint Simon's was closed.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Simon, Saltram Crescent, Paddington, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; register of church services; minutes and reports of the Parochial Church Council; and financial accounts.

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:

Parish records of St Simon's Church, Saltram Crescent, Paddington, deposited by the vicar in the Marylebone Library, July 1978, and transferred to the LMA on 18 April 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also the records of St Jude, Kensal Green (P87/JUD) and St Luke the Evangelist, Fernhead Road (P87/LUK1). Baptism entries after Feb 1959 are in the register of St Luke (P87/LUK1/8-10).

Publication note:

For further information see 'Paddington: Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), pp. 252-259.

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
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
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
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St Simon | Paddington | Church of England

Places
Paddington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
City of Westminster