IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P92/PAU1
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT PAUL, WALWORTH: LORRIMORE SQUARE, SOUTHWARK
Date(s): 1853-1953
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3.30 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Paul, Walworth | Church of England
Parish of St Paul, Newington | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Saint Paul's, Walworth was constructed in 1856 and a parish was assigned in 1857. The building was destroyed during the Second World War, but was rebuilt in 1956. The parish is now referred to as Saint Paul, Newington.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Lorrimore Square, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages, funerals and church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; faculties; papers relating to the purchase of land by the London, Dover and Chatham Railway Company; and administrative papers.
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 of St Paul, Lorrimore Square, Southwark deposited by the Vicar in the London County Record Office, May 1954, August 1954 and October 1956.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
See the Diocese of Southwark website http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/ for more information (accessed May 2010).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2010.