SAINT MATTHEW, LIMEHOUSE FIELDS: SALMON LANE, TOWER HAMLETS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P93/MTW2
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SAINT MATTHEW, LIMEHOUSE FIELDS: SALMON LANE, TOWER HAMLETS
Date(s)	: 1871-1954
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.24 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Parish of St Matthew, Limehouse Fields | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The church of Saint Matthew originated in a London Diocesan Home Mission founded in the 1860s in the parish of Saint John, Halley Street, (P93/JN1). The permanent church was built in 1871 and assigned a parish in the same year. Services had to compete with the noise of traffic in Commercial Road, the Eastern Counties Railway and the Rotherhithe Tunnel. The church was gutted by an incendiary bomb in 1941 and the parish was united with Saint John's, Halley Street. The ruins of the building were demolished.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Salmon Lane, Limehouse Fields, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council meetings; financial accounts; electoral registers; papers of church societies; correspondence; papers relating to parish events; photographs and faculties.

Access & 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.

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 in November 1955. Further records were deposited in March 1977.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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.