SAINT PETER, PAUL'S WHARF: CITY OF LONDON

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P69/PET3
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 PETER, PAUL'S WHARF: CITY OF LONDON
Date(s)	: 1607-1908
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.77 linear metres (49 production units).
Name of creator(s)	: Parish of St Peter, Paul's Wharf, City of London | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

History of the united parishes:

The church of Saint Peter, Paul's Wharf was situated on Upper Thames Street. It is first mentioned in 1170, when it was called Saint Peter the Little. The church was popular with the nobility during the Commonwealth period.

The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, 1666, along with the churches of Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe, Saint Ann Blackfriars, Saint Benet Paul's Wharf, Saint Mary Mounthaw, Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey and Saint Nicholas Olave.

Saint Ann Blackfriars was not rebuilt and the parish united to Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe in 1670. Similarly, Saint Peter Paul's Wharf was united to Saint Benet Paul's Wharf in 1670, and Saint Nicholas Olave was united to Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey in 1670. Saint Mary Mounthaw was united to Saint Mary Somerset in 1670 and the parishes were united to Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey in 1866.

Saint Benet Paul's Wharf was rebuilt by Wren, 1677-83 and the parish united to Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey in 1879, when the church became the London church of the Welsh Episcopalians. Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey was rebuilt by Wren in 1677, gutted in 1941 and restored in 1962. The parish was united to Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe in 1954.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Paul's Wharf, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' account books; Overseers' papers relating to parish poor relief; church rate and poor rate assessment books.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

To assist the user the catalogue has been arranged in sections each with a code as follows: A Parish registers; B Vestry and parish officers; C Rate assessments and inhabitants lists; D Charities and estates.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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:

The records of these parishes were deposited with the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library at various dates from 1902. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

P69/AND1 - Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe.

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:
April to June 2010.