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SAINT THOMAS IN THE LIBERTY OF THE ROLLS: CITY OF LONDON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P69/TMS2

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT THOMAS IN THE LIBERTY OF THE ROLLS: CITY OF LONDON

Date(s): 1837-1886

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.18 linear metres (4 production units).

Name of creator(s): Parish of St Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Rolls Liberty constituted the Middlesex part of the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West (P69/DUN2), situated around Chancery Lane. A chapel is first recorded here in 1232, known as the Rolls Chapel from 1377. It was constituted as a separate ecclesiastical parish, known as Saint Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls, in 1842; and as a civil parish, in 1866. The chapel became part of the Public Record Office building, now the library of King's College London. The chapel survives and includes some monuments.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls, City of London, comprising parish registers (baptisms, marriages) 1842-1886 and a volume commemorating the building of the church, 1837-1842.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

P69/TMS-1: Parish Registers; P69/TMS-2: Vestry and Parish Officers.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records of the parish have been deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library, with the archives of St Dunstan in the West, at various dates since 1932. The most recent deposit was in 1959. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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: April to June 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church architecture | Architecture
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls | Church of England

Places
Chancery Lane | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe