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HOLY TRINITY, BROMPTON: BROMPTON ROAD, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P84/TRI2

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HOLY TRINITY, BROMPTON: BROMPTON ROAD, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

Date(s): 1829-2005

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4.80 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of Holy Trinity, Brompton | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The church was built between 1826 and 1829 on a site of three and a half acres just west of Brompton Square, including its burial ground, which was previously the burial site for Saint George's Hospital. It was designed by T.L. Donaldson and extended between 1879 and 1882 by Arthur Bromfield. The design consisted of a 5-bay clerestoried nave with two aisles, a sanctuary flanked by vestries and a west tower with lobbies on either side containing stairs to galleries. The windows were lancets (without tracery until 1843). The materials consist of stock bricks with Suffolk facings and Bath stone dressings. The roofs were of Bangor slates hidden behind coping stones. There was much criticism immediately; the church wardens wanted architectural ornaments and many were subsequently added.

It was consecrated in 1829 and that year a large district was assigned to it - west as far as Kensington Canal and north to Kensington Turnpike. In 1977 Saint Paul's Onslow Square was united with Holy Trinity.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Brompton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations and banns; registers of church services; papers relating to parish boundaries including plans; papers relating to the maintenance of the church and churchyard, including faculties; financial records; papers relating to the parish school; printed items including pamphlets, scrapbooks, annual letters, annual reports, and parish magazines; photograph of church interior; Parochial Church Council minute books and other administrative papers.

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 Holy Trinity Church, Brompton Road, Kensington, deposited by the vicar of Holy Trinity with St Paul in the Greater London Record Office, 2 March 1981; with further additions in 2008 and 2010.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also P84/PAU for Saint Paul, Onslow Square, Kensington and Chelsea.

Publication note:

Survey of London, Volume XLI, (1983), LMA Library reference 92.1 GLC. The Kensington Book, Starren, Carolyn, (2006), LMA Library reference 92.1 STA. The Buildings of England: London 3 NW; Pevsner, Niklaus & Cherry, Bridget; (1991), LMA Library reference 67.0 1991.

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
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church architecture | Architecture
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church of England schools | Denominational schools | Schools | Educational institutions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Church schools | Schools | Educational institutions
Church services | Religious practice | Religious activities
Church societies | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Churchyards | Burial grounds | Public utilities | Public enterprises | Enterprises
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
Burial records
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of Holy Trinity | Brompton | Church of England

Places
Brompton | Kensington and Chelsea | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe