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Westminster City Archives Information Sheet 8 Monumental Inscriptions in Westminster Memorial tablet from St Anne’s, Soho Printed Works for South Westminster General Source Reference Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. John Stowe, 1720 ff942.11 Lists monuments in churches of St Anne, Archive store St Clement Danes, St James, Piccadilly, St Margaret, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary, Savoy, St Paul, Covent Garden. Christ Church, Broadway List of gravestones. Notes and Queries, Photocopy 22 July 1939 f929.3, pamphlet List of inscriptions on tombstones from the grave- AGR Elliott, Typescript yard on junction of Victoria Street and Broadway, 5 January 1992 f929.3, pamphlet Westminster. City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE Tel: 020-7641 5180, fax: 020-7641 5179 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives January 2010 Westminster City Archives Monumental Inscriptions Information Sheet 8 in Westminster Christ Church, Down Street Source Reference Christ Church, Down Street. Memorial Inscriptions C Tucker, 1971 Typescript 1862-1924. f929.3, pamphlet St Anne, Soho St Anne, Soho, Monumental Inscriptions. AGR Elliott, 1985 Typescript f929.3, pamphlet Monumental Inscriptions and extracts from the WE Hughes, 1905 929.3 registers of births, marriages and deaths at Archive store St Anne’s, Soho. St Clement Danes See entry for John Strype under General St George, Hanover Square Brief History of St George’s Chapel [St George’s Cecil Moore, 1883 942.135 burial ground, Bayswater Road]. Includes Open shelves monumental inscriptions. Mount Street Gardens – Mount Street Burial Ground Westminster City Council, Typescript [St George’s], list of gravestones. November 1931 f929.3, pamphlet St James, Piccadilly Inscriptions in the churchyard of St James, Notes and Queries, Photocopy Piccadilly. 8 March 1913 – 26 April f929.3, pamphlet 1913. The Monumental Incriptions of St James, J Alexander, R Ford, Typescript Hampstead Road. J Newman & D Willcocks, f929.3, open 1986 shelves Monumental Inscriptions from the remaining stones FT Cansick, 1884 MS book in St James’s Chapel Burial Ground, Hampstead f929.3, open Road. shelves Copy of plates of inscriptions on coffins removed London Necropolis Typescript from St James’s Vestry Hall, Piccadilly, for re- Society, 1923 f929.3, pamphlet interment at the City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell. St James, Piccadilly – memorials in the church, Survey of London, f942.11 name and date only, indexed in volume XXX. Volume XXIX Open shelves City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE Tel: 020-7641 5180, fax: 020-7641 5179 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives Westminster City Archives Monumental Inscriptions Information Sheet 8 in Westminster St John the Evangelist, Smith Square Source Reference Inscriptions in burial-ground of St John’s Notes and Queries, Photocopy Westminster. 14 October 1911 – f929.3, pamphlet 3 February 1912. St John the Evangelist, Horseferry Road burial AGR Elliott, 1989 Typescript ground, Monumental Inscriptions. f929.3, pamphlet St John’s Gardens, Horseferry Road. Inscriptions Westminster City Council, Typescript on tombstones. May 1935 f929.5, pamphlet St Margaret, Westminster The History of the Parish Church of ST Margaret in MEC Walcott, 1847 942.132 Westminster from its Foundation, AD 1064. Archive store Includes a list of surviving and lost monuments. Inscriptions from St Margaret’s, Westminster. Notes and Queries, Photocopy 21 November – f929.3, pamphlet 26 December 1931 Transcripts made in 1881 of inscriptions in the Genealogists’ Magazine 929.5 churchyard of St Margaret, Westminster, also Mount volume 5 Nos 11-12, Archive store Street and Bayswater Road burial grounds of volume 6 Nos 1-8, St George, Hanover Square. September 1931 – December 1933. St Martin-in-the-Fields St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square. Report on AGR Elliott, 1989 Typescript graves. List of monumental inscriptions in St Martin- f929.3, pamphlet in-the-Fields church and crypt noted in 1988. St Martin-in-the-Fields: Drury Lane Gardens, AGR Elliott, 1992 Typescript Monumental Inscriptions. f929.3, pamphlet St Martin’s Gardens, the Boneyard, Pratt Street, AGR Elliott, 1993 Typescript Camden (St Martin-in-the-Fields burial ground). f929.3, pamphlet A short history of the royal parish of St Martin-in-the- J McMaster, 1916 942.137 Fields.. Includes lists of monuments in the crypt, Open shelves some transferred from the old church. St Martin-in-the-Fields’s monuments – full Survey of London, f942.11 inscriptions quoted from monuments and wall-tablets Volume XX Open shelves in the crypt. City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE Tel: 020-7641 5180, fax: 020-7641 5179 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives Westminster City Archives Monumental Inscriptions Information Sheet 8 in Westminster St Mary le Strand See entry for John Strype under General St Paul, Covent Garden See entry for John Strype under General Printed Works for North Westminster Watercolour of memorial tablet in St Marylebone church Source Reference Monumental Inscriptions in St Marylebone Parish ML Bierbrier & L Collins, f929.342151 Chapel and Churchyard and Parish Church, with a Society of Genealogists, Open shelves consolidated index including earlier transcriptions, 1978 1644-1965. Monumental Inscriptions in Paddington Street ML Bierbrier & L Collins, f929.342151 Cemetery, north and south sites. With a Society of Genealogists, Open shelves consolidated index including earlier transcriptions, 1979 1735-1857. Transcription of legible gravestones at St John’s St Marylebone Society, Marylebone Wood Burial Ground, 1974, with plans and index by 1974 Envelopes L371 Miss Rainbow, St Marylebone Society Some details of monuments inside St Mary, Victoria County History of f942.1 Paddington Green, and in its churchyard. Middlesex, Volume 9. Open shelves See also Westminster Cuttings P131. Inscriptions in the churchyard of St Mary’s, Pedigree Register, Photocopy Paddington Green. September 1913 f929.3, pamphlet City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE Tel: 020-7641 5180, fax: 020-7641 5179 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives Westminster City Archives Monumental Inscriptions Information Sheet 8 in Westminster Archives for South Westminster Volume ref M/F Box no St Anne, Soho – nothing St Clement Danes – nothing St George, Hanover Square Mount Street Burial Ground. Names on tombstones and C827 554 monuments (name, date of death, age and number on plan). ?1729-1854 Reference book of the old burial ground, Bayswater Road C828 555 (number of grave, name, date of death and age) 1707-1858, but only a few before 1780. Reference book of inscriptions in the best new ground, 2nd C830 2343 ground and 3rd ground of the burial ground in Bayswater Road. 1765-1832 Register of inscriptions on coffins in vaults at the burial C830 2343 ground in St George’s Row (Bayswater Road). 1766-1851 Other burial registers with particulars of graves: 1823-1824 C831 2343 1831-1836 C832 2344 1845-1854 C833 2344 1864-1874 C834 2344 Table stones fixed but not entered in the Appropriation Book. C845a/2 559 1869-1872. Environmental Health Department file re disposal of Acc 1438/4 (not on film) tombstones, Bayswater Road burial ground, including monumental inscriptions. Indexed. 1969 St James, Piccadilly Faculties for the removal of bodies from the vaults and burial 494/362 2177 ground at St James’s Chapel. 1794-1861 Plan of St James’s 3rd burial ground with the occupants of 494/373 (damaged, not burial spaces identified and cross-referenced to burial available) ledgers. c1800 City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE Tel: 020-7641 5180, fax: 020-7641 5179 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives Westminster City Archives Monumental Inscriptions Information Sheet 8 in Westminster St Margaret, Westminster Volume ref M/F Box no Plan of Broadway Chapel Burial Ground showing location of E5122 (not on film) graves. 1846 St Martin-in-the-Fields Accounts of fees for ledgers and head and foot stones. 419/287 2199 1828-1850 Register of permissions for ledger and head and foot stones. 419/288 2199 1828-1841 Register of removal of bodies from the burial ground of 419/290 2199 St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1830-1832, with account of the head and foot stones at the east end of the church and at the back of the altar. 1830 Alphabetical list of names on coffins removed from various F6102 1900 catacombs etc, and deposited in Catacombs B, C and D. 1858-1859 St Mary le Strand – nothing St Paul, Covent Garden – nothing Precinct of the Savoy – nothing Liberty of the Rolls – nothing Archives for North Westminster St Mary, Paddington Green Volume ref M/F Box no Registers for St Mary’s Churchyard and disused burial WCC Acc 24/1-9 (not on film, ground, c1888-1889 1st floor store) St Marylebone – nothing City of Westminster Archives Centre 10 St Ann’s Street, London SW1P 2DE Tel: 020-7641 5180, fax: 020-7641 5179 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.westminster.gov.uk/archives .
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