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SAINT BARNABAS, BETHNAL GREEN: GROVE ROAD, TOWER HAMLETS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P72/BAN

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT BARNABAS, BETHNAL GREEN: GROVE ROAD, TOWER HAMLETS

Date(s): 1870-2010

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.50 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of Saint Barnabas, Bethnal Green | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The church of Saint Barnabas began as a mission, Saint Luke's, run by the church of Saint Simon Zelotes from 1865 onwards. A district was assigned in 1870, taken from the parishes of Saint James the Less and Saint Simon Zelotes. The building was a former Baptist chapel, consecrated for Church of England use in 1870. After war damage it was rebuilt in 1956.

From: 'Bethnal Green: List of Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 217-226.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Bethnal Green including registers of baptisms (1870-2001), marriages (1871-1960) and banns of marriage (1959-1981), as well as registers of church services (1951-2010).

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 for 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 of St Barnabas' Church, Grove Road, Bethnal Green deposited by the Rector of Bow in the Greater London Record Office, 22 January 1974.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For baptisms July - September 1981 see P72/AND/34/1.

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: March to April 2010. Updated February 2016.


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
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Catholicism
Legal documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of Saint Barnabas | Bethnal Green | Church of England

Places
Bethnal Green | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Tower Hamlets