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London Metropolitan Archives

WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL HIGHGATE WING, HIGHGATE HILL, CAMDEN


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P90/WHHW

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL HIGHGATE WING, HIGHGATE HILL, CAMDEN

Date(s): 1884-1979

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.82 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Whittington Hospital | Highgate Wing

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The hospital was built by the Saint Pancras Board of Guardians as Saint Pancras North Infirmary. Its name was later changed to Highgate Hospital. After 1948 it was amalgamated with Saint Mary's Hospital and Archway Hospital to become the Highgate Wing of the Whittington Hospital.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Registers of baptisms and Chaplain's journals for the Whittington Hospital (Highgate Wing), Highgate Hill.

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:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

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:

Records deposited in January 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also H31/SP (Saint Pancras Hospital) and STPBG (Saint Pancras Board of Guardians).

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: April to June 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Hospital chaplains | Chaplains | Clergy | Religious groups
Hospitals | Health services
Catholicism
Medical institutions
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Whittington Hospital | London

Places
Highgate | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Camden
Islington