SAINT PETER, WALWORTH: LIVERPOOL GROVE, SOUTHWARK

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 P92/PET1
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, WALWORTH: LIVERPOOL GROVE, SOUTHWARK
Date(s)	: 1825-1983
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 6.12 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Parish of St Peter, Walworth | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint Peter's was designed by Sir John Soane and built at a cost of £18,592. The foundation stone was laid on 2 June 1823 and the church was consecrated on 28 February 1825. During the Second World War, tragedy struck Saint Peter's when 84 people sheltering in the undercroft were killed in an air raid. Ironically, the damage to the church itself was not extensive. The church was thus restored by Thomas L. Ford and reopened in 1953.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Liverpool Grove, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; clerical registers; church services registers; minutes of Trustees for Executing Act for 'building two new churches in St Mary Newington'; financial records; reports of Diocesan Inspectors; papers relating to St Peter's Walworth Schools; registers of the Wellington College Mission; papers relating to the churchyard including plan of burial ground; plans relating to the post-war reconstruction of the church; and parochial statistics.

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:

Records deposited in 1953, 1974 and 1989.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See Chester, Solicitors (reference:B/CHE) for records relating to the site of Saint Peter's Church, Walworth. See P92/TRI for more papers relating to the Trustees for Executing Act for 'building two new churches in St Mary Newington'.

Publication note:

See the Diocese of Southwark website http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/ for more information (accessed May 2010).

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.