SAINT CHARLES HOSPITAL, KENSINGTON: EXMOOR STREET, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P84/SCH
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 CHARLES HOSPITAL, KENSINGTON: EXMOOR STREET, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
Date(s)	: 1889-1983
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.14 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Saint Charles' Hospital | 1930- x St Marylebone Infirmary | 1881 - 1923 x St Marylebone Hospital | 1923 - 1930

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint Charles' Hospital was built as Saint Marylebone Infirmary situated in the Ladbroke Grove area of North Kensington. The hospital was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1881. Its name was changed to Saint Charles' Hospital when it was transferred from Saint Marylebone Board of Guardians to the London County Council in 1930. In 1948 it became part of the National Health Service and came under the control of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and the Paddington Group Hospital Management Committee. It now forms part of the Paddington and North Kensington District Health Authority.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the chaplain of Saint Charles Hospital, Kensington, comprising three registers of baptisms.

Access & 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 are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

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:

Transferred to the Greater London Record Office (now LMA) on 7 April 1989.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also H28/SC for records of Saint Charles Hospital.

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.