RISIEN, JOHN {LAWN HOUSE}

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/0523
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: RISIEN, JOHN {LAWN HOUSE}
Date(s)	: 1764-1910
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.15 linear metres.
Name of creator(s)	: Various.

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lawn House was a large private home in Hanwell. From the mid-nineteenth century it was used as a private lunatic asylum. It was demolished in the early twentieth century.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents relating to premises in Hanwell, including Lawn House. The papers include extracts from court rolls, leases, conveyances and deeds.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Documents arranged in chronological order.

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:

Gifted to the archive in April 1954.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

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:
January to May 2011.