SAINT DUNSTAN AND ALL SAINTS, STEPNEY: RECTORY SQUARE, TOWER HAMLETS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P93/DUN
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 DUNSTAN AND ALL SAINTS, STEPNEY: RECTORY SQUARE, TOWER HAMLETS
Date(s)	: 1568-1986
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 15.37 linear metres (387 documents).
Name of creator(s)	: Parish of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

There has been a church on the site since at least the tenth century, when the original Saxon church was rebuilt by order of Dunstan, the Bishop of London, who was canonised in 1029. The church was renamed after him. The present church dates mostly to an enlargement and restoration carried out in the fifteenth century. The church was the only one in Stepney for many years, until a whitewashed chapel was constructed at Whitechapel in the thirteenth century, after which many more churches were built in the area and the parish of Saint Dunstan decreased in size.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Rectory Square, Stepney, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages and burials; tithes books; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of the Rural Deanery of Stepney; papers of parochial charities; newspaper cuttings; photographs and newsletters.

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 by the Rector, 12 January 1956, 8 March 1967, 10 March 1977, 25 June 1977, and 15 October 1984. Additional records (P93/DUN/384/1-34) were deposited by the Archivist, Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, 5 April 1988. Volume P93/DUN/385/1 was transferred by the LCC Record Keeper from the records of Stepney Board of Guardians, March 1953.

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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.