IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P78/MAA
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BLACKHEATH: BLACKHEATH PARK, GREENWICH
Date(s): 1953-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2.40 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Michael and All Angels, Blackheath | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The church of Saint Michael and All Angels dates to 1828-29. The church is known as the Kentish Needle due to the tall, pointed spire. The parish was created in 1886, taken from part of the parish of Saint Luke's, Charlton.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Blackheath, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; church service registers; orders of service; papers relating to the benefice; minutes, correspondence, faculties, citations, plans, specifications and photographs relating to building works at the church and church hall; minutes of Vestry and Parochial Church Council meetings; administrative files including correspondence and reports; financial accounts; papers relating to church associations, societies and clubs; parish magazines; appeals; newspaper cuttings; photographs and histories.
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 deposited in April and July 1998.
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.