IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P79/TRI
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HOLY TRINITY, DALSTON: BEECHWOOD ROAD, HACKNEY
Date(s): 1847-1972
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.23 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of Holy Trinity, Dalston | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The first ecclesiastical building within the boundaries of this parish was a leper chapel of Saint Catherine. The first minsiter dates from 1623. A district was formed from the parishes of Saint Philip and Saint Mark in 1879. The patron was The Merchant Taylor's Company up to 1937. The building is of red brick in early English style by Ewan Christian and was built 1878/1879. It reopened after war damage, with the south transept reduced in height. The church was united with Saint Philip's, Dalston in 1953 to become the parish of Holy Trinity with Saint Philip, Dalston.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Dalston, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers and maps regarding parish boundary changes; legal documents and faculties for church buildings; Easter Vestry and Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; minutes of the Sunday Lunch Club.
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 by the Vicar of Holy Trinity with St Philip, Dalston in August 1982. Further records deposited by the Vicar of Holy Trinity with St Philip, Dalston in August 1982; June 1983; and January 1984.
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.