SAINT MARY, HARROW: CHURCH HILL, HARROW

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 DRO/003
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SAINT MARY, HARROW: CHURCH HILL, HARROW
Date(s)	: 1558-1967
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 5.77 linear metres (154 files).
Name of creator(s)	: Church of England | Parish of St Mary, Harrow

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In medieval times Saint Mary's was one of the most important churches in Middlesex. There is a twelfth-century tower with tall octagonal lead spires. The nave was re-built in the thirteenth-century when the rector was Elias de Dereham, the canon of Salisbury. Various additions and embellishments took place under John Byrkhead, rector from 1437 to 1468, then restored heavily in the nineteenth century. Many brasses including a small brass of John Lyons, founder of Harrow School.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Harrow, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; marriage licences; papers regarding election of churchwardens; churchwarden's papers regarding rates, financial accounts and the maintenance of the church building and churchyard; vestry minutes and notices; papers of the parish beadle; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including financial accounts and papers regarding rating, valuation, settlement, vagrancy, bastardy, apprenticeship, the workhouse and the militia; papers relating to the Surveyors of the Highways; papers relating to social clubs including the Temperance society; papers relating to parish schools; maps of the parish and historical notes.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records are arranged in 12 sub-fonds: Incumbent; Churchwardens; Vestry; Constable; Overseers; Surveyors of the Highways; Societies; Charities; Schools; Miscellaneous; Maps; Historical notes.

Conditions governing access:

Files DRO/003/A/01/001-020 and DRO/003/A/02/001-009 are not available for consultation, please use microfilms.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright for 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 two accessions; in April 1961 and May 1989.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For other records relating to this parish see references ACC/0590 and ACC/0936.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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.