IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/256
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: JEWERS, Arthur John (d 1921)
Date(s): 1910-1924
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 6 production units
Name of creator(s): Jewers | Arthur John | d 1921 | antiquarian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Arthur John Jewers was an antiquarian with a particular interest in church records. His publications included Parish Registers and their preservation (1884). He died in 1921.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The monumental inscriptions and armorial bearings in the churches within the City of London, a five volume work by Arthur Jewers, compiled for the Library Committee of the City of London, 1910-1919. Includes transcripts of monumental and other inscriptions in the churches, with drawings (many coloured) of armorial bearings, and extracts from wills and other genealogical notes about the persons and families commemorated. Also correspondence with the Library Committee relating to the preparation of the work, 1910-1919, and Library Committee report, 1924.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
MS02480/001-005: The monumental inscriptions and armorial bearings in the churches within the City of London; MS02480A: Correspondence.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which 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: August to October 2010.