IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 DRO/090
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT STEPHEN, EAST TWICKENHAM: RICHMOND ROAD, RICHMOND
Date(s): 1874-1984
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2.58 linear metres (77 files).
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Stephen, East Twickenham | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Saint Stephen's church, East Twickenham, was opened in 1872 as an iron church, and in 1875 as a permanent structure. It replaced the Montpelier chapel which had been constructed as a chapel of ease to the parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin in 1727. Saint Stephen's was assigned a parish from the eastern part of Saint Mary's parish, and the living was invested in trustees.
Source of information: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (1962), pp. 157-161.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, East Twickenham, including registers of banns of marriage; preachers' books; registers of church services; papers relating to the maintenance and repair of the church, vicarage and mission hall, including correspondence and plans; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes and verger's log book.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged in one series: DRO/090-1: Parish Records.
Conditions governing access:
Some files are only available on microfilm. Please check access.
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 deposited in two accessions, on 22 June 1992 and 22 July 1992.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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.