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SAINT MATTHEW, WILLESDEN: SAINT MARY'S ROAD, BRENT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 DRO/097

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT MATTHEW, WILLESDEN: SAINT MARY'S ROAD, BRENT

Date(s): 1895-1995

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.9 linear metres (129 documents).

Name of creator(s): Parish of St Matthew, Willesden | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

1894: London Diocesan Home Missions Committee appoints Rev George H Newton missioner for future parish of St Matthew's.
1895: Iron mission church completed on future church site, corner of St Mary's Road and St John's Avenue.
1900: Contract signed for building of permanent church.
1901-1906: Building of St Matthew's Church, designed by William Douglas Caroe, architect to Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
1902: Order in Council creating parish of St Matthew out of parishes of St Mary Willesden and All Souls Harlesden.
1910: Foundation stone of parish hall laid.
1940: Parish hall destroyed by bombing.
1952: Parish hall reopens after rebuilding.
1970: Rural deanery of Brent (including St Matthew) transferred from Archdeaconry of Hampstead to new Archdeaconry of Northolt.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Willesden, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations, preachers and church services; orders of service, service programmes, and hymn sheets; papers relating to the creation of the parish; papers relating to the construction of the church; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings and fittings, including faculties and inventories; papers relating to the church hall; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Church Building Committee minutes; financial accounts; papers of church societies and clubs; parish magazines, yearbooks and other special publications; newspaper cuttings; and papers of the ecumenical council.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

DRO/097/001-044, 127-129: Parish Registers; DRO/097/045-126: Other Parish Records.

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 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:

Deposited in four accessions; in April 1994, September 1996, January 1998 and August 2000.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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
Banns register | Marriage records | Documents | Information sources
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church architecture | Architecture
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Church services | Religious practice | Religious activities
Church societies | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Conferences | Group communication | Communication process
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Parish councils | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Preaching | Religious practice | Religious activities
Vestry | Parish meetings | Meetings | Group communication | Communication process
Meetings x Conferences
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St Matthew | Willesden | Church of England

Places
Willesden | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Brent