SAINT PAUL, HAMMERSMITH: QUEEN CAROLINE STREET, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 DD/0818
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 PAUL, HAMMERSMITH: QUEEN CAROLINE STREET, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM
Date(s)	: 1656-1990
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 9 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Parish of Saint Paul | Hammersmith | Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Until 1834 Hammersmith was a hamlet within the parish of Fulham, the mother church being All Saints. In 1629 the leading inhabitants of Hammersmith, including the Earl of Mulgrave and Nicholas Crispe, successfully petitioned the Bishop of London for a chapel of ease to be built. The chapel was concentrated by Bishop Laud, later Archbishop of Canterbury, on 7 June 1631, and a perpetual curacy was established. In 1834 Hammersmith became a distinct and separate parish and the chapel of St Paul became the parish church.

In 1978 proposals were implemented for a Local Ecumenical Project in Hammersmith. On the closure of the Broadway United Reform church building St Paul's became the home of a united congregation of Anglican and United Reform Church members.

From the seventeenth century the Hammersmith "side" of the parish was administered separately from the Fulham "side"; each side appointing its own officers and levying its own rates. The Hammersmith curate kept his own registers of baptisms marriages and burials but the entries were also recorded in the registers of All Saints Fulham until 1834.

By the 1860s the chapel was too small for its congregation and a public subscription was raised to restore and enlarge the building. The West London Observer of 20 February 1864 reported the proposed alterations which were completed in the following year. In 1882 plans were drawn up for a new church on the same site. It was built in stages the first section being consecrated on 13 October 1883. Major road construction in the second half of the twentieth century resulted in the loss of part of the churchyard the church hall and St Paul's Church Schools which were relocated to Worlidge Street.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of St Paul, Hammersmith, including parish registers, registers of church services, PCC and vestry minutes, financial records, and records relating to staff, parish boundaries and benefice, church fabric, church hall, parochial charities and church schools.

NB: The collection includes records previously catalogued as DD/0071 and DD/0746.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows:
DD/0818/01: Registers of confirmation and banns
DD/0818/02: Registers of service
DD/0818/03: Staff
DD/0818/04: Parish boundaries
DD/0818/05: Benefice
DD/0818/06: Church fabric
DD/0818/07: Church Hall
DD/0818/08: Finance
DD/0818/09: Vestry
DD/0818/10: Parochial Church Council
DD/0818/11: Parochial Charities
DD/0818/12: Church schools

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by 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:

Deposited at Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local Studies 19 March and 5 May 1993.

Transferred from Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre in 2015.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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:
Added July 2015. Updated June 2019.