IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 F/STP
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: STEPHENS, CANON John Otter (1832-1925)
Date(s): 1890-1925
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.15 linear metres (33 documents).
Name of creator(s): Stephens | John Otter | 1832-1925 | clergyman
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These documents and newspaper cuttings belonged to, or relate to Canon John Otter Stephens. After a curacy at Belgrave, Leicestershire, in 1858, he became Vicar of Savernake, Wiltshire, in 1861, of Blankney, Lincolnshire, in 1879 and of All Saints, Tooting, 1903-1912. Made an honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral in 1914, he died in 1925, aged 93.
In 1901 when Lady Charles Brudenell-Bruce died, she left money in trust for the creation of a new district and church in memory of her husband, Lord Charles Brudenell-Bruce. A tent church, established at Tooting in 1903 was succeeded by an iron church, and the consecration of All Saints took place in 1906.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Canon John Otter Stephens, predominantly relating to All Saints, Tooting, including newspaper cuttings; notices; orders; letters; notes and orders of service. The papers relate to events including the laying of the foundation stone, the consecration of the church, the history of the church, the new organ and the retirement of Reverend Stephens.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
F/STP/001 to F/STP/033.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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:
Gifted to the Archive in May 1969.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See P95/ALL5 for records of All Saints, Tooting.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.