IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P84/STE
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT STEPHEN, KENSINGTON: GLOUCESTER ROAD, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
Date(s): 1868-1969
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3.99 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Stephen, Kensington | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Saint Stephen's Church was built within a year in 1866-1867 and consecrated on 10th January 1867. It was designed by Joseph Peacock. A temporary church on the east side of Gloucester Road had opened in early 1866. The church became 'higher' after the 1870's and by 1900 was firmly Anglo-Catholic in character and was remodelled in the early 1900's to reflect this. Poet TS Eliot served as churchwarden at Saint Stephen's for twenty-five years. The church has a memorial plaque to him.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, Kensington, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages and banns.
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 1991 and 1994.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
Survey of London, Volume XLII, (1986), LMA Library reference: 92.1 GLC. The Kensington Book, Starren, Carolyn, (2006), LMA Library reference 92.1 STA.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2010.