LAMB'S CHAPEL: MONKWELL STREET, CITY OF LONDON

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P69/LAM
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: LAMB'S CHAPEL: MONKWELL STREET, CITY OF LONDON
Date(s)	: 1618-1753
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.09 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: St James in the Wall, City of London | Church of England Lamb's Chapel, City of London | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint James in the Wall, Monkwell Street, was an ancient hermitage, a cell of Garadon Monastery, Leicestershire. In 1543 William Lambe purchased the chapel and it was bequeathed by him to the Clothworkers' Company in 1577, and the "reader" of the chapel appears to have acted as chaplain to the Company. It was therefore also known as Lamb's Chapel. The chapel was rebuilt in 1825, before being pulled down in 1872.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

C 1621-1627 M 1619-1753

Records of Saint James in the Wall, Monkwell Street, City of London, also known as Lamb's Chapel, comprising register of baptisms, 1620-1627 and marriages, 1618-1626 and 1696-98; and register of marriages, 1709-1753; which includes, at front, list of chaplains or "readers" of the chapel, 1694-1731.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes catalogued as P69/LAM/MS01159/001-002.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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:

These registers were given to Guildhall Library in October 1902 by the Clothworkers' Company, which had purchased the first volume in July 1902 at the sale of the manuscript collection of Joseph Jackson Howard. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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.