London Metropolitan Archives

CHRIST CHURCH, LANCASTER GATE: LANCASTER GATE, WESTMINSTER

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P87/CTC

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CHRIST CHURCH, LANCASTER GATE: LANCASTER GATE, WESTMINSTER

Date(s): 1855-1977

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.32 linear metres (113 files).

Name of creator(s): Parish of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Paddington | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Christ Church was consecrated on 17 July, 1855. In March 1977 the building was found to be unsafe; it was closed and later demolished, The parish was united with Saint James, Sussex Gardens (P87/JS).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Paddington, including register of baptisms, marriages and church services; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; general correspondence; papers relating to personnel; papers relating to the benefice; correspondence and other papers regarding the maintenance of the church fabric; photographs; and parish magazines and newsletters.

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:

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 of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Paddington, deposited by the Vicar, 22 February 1977.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

For further information see 'Paddington: Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), pp. 252-259.

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
Benefices | Rights | Customary law | Law
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Church services | Religious practice | Religious activities
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Conferences | Group communication | Communication process
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Parish councils | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Vestry | Parish meetings | Meetings | Group communication | Communication process
Meetings x Conferences
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of Christ Church | Lancaster Gate | Church of England

Places
Lancaster Gate | Paddington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
City of Westminster