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SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, TWICKENHAM: CHURCH STREET, RICHMOND


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0535

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, TWICKENHAM: CHURCH STREET, RICHMOND

Date(s): 1851-1852

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Church of England | St Mary the Virgin Church, Twickenham

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Each parish was obliged to elect Overseers of the Poor by the Poor Law Act of 1598 and the Poor Relief Act of 1601. The Overseers were responsible for collecting the poor rate from inhabitants of the parish, and using the rate to relieve local paupers, including running a workhouse if they so chose. The Clerk of the Peace was responsible for keeping the records of Quarter Sessions for each county.

Saint Mary the Virgin is an ancient parish within Hampton Deanery, which is within the Kensington Area of the Diocese of London. The following parishes were cleaved from the ancient parish: Holy Trinity, Twickenham Common (1842); Saint Stephen, East Twickenham (1875); Twickenham, All Saints (1914) and Twickenham, All Hallows (1939). The parish of Saint Philip and Saint Paul, Whitton, was also created from Saint Mary's in 1862. Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Whitton, was created as a London Diocesan Home Mission church in 1935, within the parish of Saint Philip and Saint Paul, and became a separate parish in 1958.

The church of Saint Mary the Virgin was rebuilt in 1714-15 by John James, who was one of the surveyors to Queen Anne's Fifty New Churches project. Its structure is of red brick with Tuscan pilasters surmounted by a pediments. There is an early 16th century bell, three from the 17th century and four from the 18th century. The church was enlarged again in 1754. There are many original fittings including the gallery fronts and reredos and also monuments: a mediaeval monument brass of 1443 to Richard Burton, the King's chief cook. There is a monument to Alexander Pope and his parent (Pope and his mother are buried here).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Overseers' records from the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Twickenham; comprising demands from the Clerk of Peace to the Overseers of the Poor of Twickenham for the County Rate and Rate under Lunatic Asylum Act, accompanied by relevant printed reports of Quarter Sessions, County Treasurers' Accounts and lists of demands outstanding.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents are arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

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:

Received as a gift from Twickenham Public Library 16th July, 1954.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For records of the church, see DRO/174.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: March to April 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Clerks of the Peace | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Community charge | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Local taxation | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance
Overseers of the poor | Local government personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Overseers records | Documents | Information sources
Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Poor relief | Social welfare
Catholicism
Primary documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St Mary the Virgin | Twickenham | Church of England

Places
Twickenham | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Richmond upon Thames