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London Metropolitan Archives

SAINT PETER, VERE STREET: VERE STREET, WESTMINSTER


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P89/PET

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT PETER, VERE STREET: VERE STREET, WESTMINSTER

Date(s): 1916-1984

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.48 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Church of St Peter, Vere Street | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint Peter's was known as the Oxford Chapel, which was constructed in 1724 to the design of Gibbs. It became Saint Peter's in 1832. The church never had a parish, but was a chapel-of-ease to All Souls, Langham Place (P89/ALS). In mid-Victorian times the incumbent Fredrick Denison Maurice was leader of a group of Christian Socialists which included Charles Kingsley.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the church of Saint Peter, Vere Street, comprising registers of marriages and baptisms and photographs of the church interior and exterior.

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 to 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 recieved in June 1959 and May 1994.

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 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
Church of St Peter | Vere Street | Church of England

Places
West End | City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe