IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P84/HEL
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT HELEN, KENSINGTON: SAINT HELEN'S GARDENS, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
Date(s): 1864-1965
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.79 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Helen, Kensington | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The first vicar was the Reverend Arthur Delgano Robinson, a prominent local philanthropic clergyman, who also founded Saint Clement's Church. He established a school for the children of the local potteries workers, who were notoriously poverty-stricken.
Saint Helen's was built in 1881 by H. Currey and dedicated on 15th January 1884. The church was hit by a flying bomb and destroyed during World War II and rebuilt during 1954-6 and rededicated on 6th July 1956. The ancillary buildings: the vicarage, church hall, parish room and stores are clustered round the church. The church has an organ case and stained class by Sir J. Ninian Comper, the architect's father, and pews by Richard Norman Shaw which were orginally from Holy Trinity, Latimer Road, Hammersmith. The parish was united with Holy Trinity in 1951. The church has developed a strong tradition for children's and youth work.
In April 2000 the parish boundary was extended to include the Delgano estate with Saint Francis Mission Chapel and Saint Francis House.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Helen, Kensington, including registers of baptisms and marriages; church services registers; papers relating to parish boundaries; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; register of attendances at Church Boy's Club; faculties and citations relating to church fittings; and deeds and other legal documents relating to parish property.
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 deposited on 14 June 1963. Additional parish records deposited by the vicar on 16 November 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
See The Notting Hill & Holland Park Book, Tames, Richard, (2004), LMA Library reference 92.11 NOT; and Survey of London", Volume XXXVII, (1972), LMA Library reference 92.1 GLC.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2010.