IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P78/ALF
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT ALFEGE, GREENWICH: GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH
Date(s): 1615-1992
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3.77 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Alfege, Greenwich | Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Greenwich was a riverside settlement lying south of the River Thames in Kent, later part of London. Its parish church of Saint Alfege was a mediaeval foundation, erected to commemorate the martyrdom of Archbishop Alfege by the Danes (in 1012). After the roof collapsed in 1710 the church was rebuilt in the Baroque style by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1711 to 1714 with money granted under the Fifty New Churches Act (1711), and consecrated in 1718. It stands near the junction of Greenwich Church Street and Greenwich High Road.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the parish of Saint Alfege, Greenwich, including baptism registers (1616-1975), marriage registers (1616-1989), burial registers (1615-1914), banns register (1874-1992), confirmation register (1947-1980), church service registers (1964-1988), volume relating to parochial charities (1816), inventory of workhouse stock, parish magazines (1937, 1939), and histories of the church.
ACCESS AND 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:
Open access, except for the overseers of the poor inventory of stock etc in the workhouse, which is not fit for production. Parish registers must be consulted on microfilm.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright for these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit.
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 February 1994; with a further accession in 2010.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: March to April 2010.