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SAINT PAUL, CANONBURY: ESSEX ROAD, ISLINGTON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P83/PAU1

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT PAUL, CANONBURY: ESSEX ROAD, ISLINGTON

Date(s): 1830-1980

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3.61 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of St Paul, Canonbury | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The parish of Saint Paul was established in 1830. Parts of the parish were later transferred to other new churches. The church was constructed in 1826-28 to designs by Charles Barry. It seated 1,800. By 1981 most services were being held at the church of Saint Jude, and the two parishes were merged in 1982.

From: 'Islington: Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 88-99.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Canonbury, Islington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; registers of church services; minutes of Parochial Church Council meetings; financial accounts; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to church societies; annual reports; church magazines; papers relating to parish boundaries and papers relating to the church building.

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:

Deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 25 May 1965. Additional records of St. Paul's Church, Essex Road, Canonbury, Islington deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 23 January 1984 and 9 March 1984.

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.


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
Church societies | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Churchwardens | Laity | Religious groups
Churchwardens records | Documents | Information sources
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 Paul | Canonbury | Church of England

Places
Canonbury | Islington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe