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SAINT GEORGE, OLD BRENTFORD: HOUNSLOW


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 DRO/059

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT GEORGE, OLD BRENTFORD: HOUNSLOW

Date(s): 1800-1978

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.65 linear metres (155 files).

Name of creator(s): Parish of St George, Old Brentford | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Township of Old Brentford was formerly part of the ancient parish of Ealing and had no church nor chapel of its own until 1762 when an unconsecrated chapel was built from subscriptions raised from 57 prominent inhabitants. The baptisms, marriages and burials, of inhabitants of Old Brentford continued to be recorded in the registers of St. Mary, Ealing until 1828 when a district was assigned to St George's Chapel. Baptisms were performed there from 1828 and marriages from 1837 when it was licensed for their solemnisation. The brick building constructed in 1766 by J. J. Kirby, in the shadow of the Gas Works, had become dilapidated by 1863 and was demolished in 1886. A new site had been purchased in 1852 but was used as the site for St. Paul's iron church, built in 1861, and another site, bought in 1881, was made superfluous by the creating of the parish of St. James Gunnersbury. Eventually it was decided to build a new church on the old site, designed by A. W. Blomfield. Fittings transferred from the old chapel included a painting of the Last Supper by Zoffany, c. 1770. The church was closed in 1959 and used as a musical museum from 1963. In 1961 St. George was amalgamated with St. Lawrence, New Brentford and St. Paul, Old Brentford.

Source of information: 'Ealing and Brentford: Churches: Brentford', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp. 153-157. Available online.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint George, Old Brentford, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials; banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; preachers' books; papers regarding parish boundaries; papers relating to glebe lands; papers and correspondence relating to the building of a new church; Vestry minutes; papers of the parish school; parish magazines and orders of service.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: Parish Records (DRO/059/001-155).

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 DRO/059/001-142 deposited in 1984; records DRO/059/143-155 deposited in 1989.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For baptisms and burials before 1828 and marriages before 1837 see the records of St Mary, Ealing (DRO/037). For Churchwardens' Rates & Accounts, 1865-1885, see DRO/037/B/01/066-076. See DRO/060/068 for registers from Apr 1961. See also the records of Saint Lawrence, New Brentford (DRO/058) and Saint Paul, Brentford (DRO/060).

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.


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
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Conferences | Group communication | Communication process
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Glebes | Land use
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
National schools | Schools | Educational institutions
Preaching | Religious practice | Religious activities
Vestry | Parish meetings | Meetings | Group communication | Communication process
Meetings x Conferences
Burial records
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St George | Old Brentford | Church of England
The United Parish of Brentford | Church of England

Places
Brentford | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hounslow