IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/370
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LYON
Date(s): 1854-1969
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s): Holy Trinity Anglican Church | Lyon, France
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Bishop of London was held to exercise responsibility for Anglican churches overseas where no other bishop had been appointed. He retained responsibility for churches in northern and central Europe until 1980, but his jurisdiction in southern Europe ceased in 1842 on the creation of the diocese of Gibraltar. In 1980, the Bishop of London divested himself of all overseas jurisdiction and a new diocese of 'Gibraltar in Europe' was established.
Anglican services began in Lyon in 1843, and a permanent chaplain was appointed in 1853. Holy Trinity was consecrated in 1873, but was sold in 1969. Services moved to various locations before settling in a chapel in the Convent de l'Adoration Réparatrice.
NB - Lyons is an anglicization of the French Lyon.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Holy Trinity Church, Lyon, France, comprising registers of baptisms, 1854-1967 (Ms 14533), marriages, 1868-1969 (Ms 14534), banns, 1878-1911 (Ms 14535), and burials, 1863-1961 (Ms 14536).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The archives of Holy Trinity Church, Lyons were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1973. They were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also DL/E/A to DL/E/E for papers relating to the Diocese of London Overseas Jurisdiction; CLC/318 for the Diocese in Europe and CLC/319 for the Diocese of Gibraltar.
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: August to October 2010.