IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 DRO/046
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: JESUS CHURCH, ENFIELD: FORTY HILL, ENFIELD
Date(s): 1835-1989
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2.71 linear metres (22 documents).
Name of creator(s): Parish of Jesus Church, Enfield | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The parish of Jesus Church was formed in 1835 and became a perpetual curacy in 1845 with the district formed out of the parish of St Andrew. Patronage has always been vested in the vicar of Enfield. The church was built at the expense of Christian Paul Meyer who endowed it with money and land; further land was later given by Trinity College Cambridge. The church building was extended in 1889 and 1926.
From: 'Enfield: Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 245-249. Available online.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Jesus Church, Enfield, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage and church services; papers relating to the benefice and glebe lands; papers relating to the church building including correspondence regarding alterations and restorations, faculties, plans, reports and surveys; Churchwardens' annual reports; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to almshouses; and parish magazines.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged in 10 sub-fonds: A: Incumbent; B: Church Services/Work of Clergy; E: Benefice; F: Church Buildings (Church); H: Church Buildings (Church Hall); K: Churchwardens; L: Parish Administration; M: Parish Finance; N: Parish Organisations (Charities) and U: Printed Material.
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:
Deposited in July 1981; with further accessions in 1994 and 2002.
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.