LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 1 CHURCHES CLA/079 Reference Description Dates GENERAL CLA/079/01/001 References to private Acts for exchanging 1714 - 1718 parsons' Glebe, rectory and vicarage houses and tithe lands. 1 Geo.I - 4 Geo.II. Former reference: Misc.Ms.31.18 CLA/079/01/002 London City Churches 1951; a brief guide, by 1951 Gerald Cobb Printed by order of the Corporation of London, 1951, 31 pp. illus. Copies. Former reference: B/10 & R.O (S.R.) CLA/079/01/003 City of London (Guild Churches) Act [number 1952 not used. This item is CLA/079/01/018] Former reference: PD.38.19 CLA/079/01/004 City of London (Guild Churches) Act 1952 1952 - 1956 Scheme for the application of the rules for the representation of the Laity contained in the schedule to the Representation of the Laity measure 1956, and for the application of the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956, to Guild Churches and Guild Church Councils in the City of London. Former reference: PD.119.7 CLA/079/01/005 City of London Reorganisation Areas Measure 1954 - 1959 Scheme 29 January 1954 Two orders 27 March 1958 and 9 April 1959 varying provision made therein for payment of two individual annuitee. (copies). Former reference: PD.119.6 CLA/079/01/006 City Churches Commission: The Diocese of Jan 1994 London: Report to the Bishop of London [The "Templeman" Report] 40pp, ind. 7 schedules & 2 plans In June 1992 the Bishop of London invited the Commission to address the following brief with regard to the City Churches - "within the mission strategy proposed by the Bishop of London, to consider the place of the parish and guild churches of the City of London in their pastoral and mission role; and to make recommendations regarding the practical and financial implications arising therefrom." Former reference: PD. 283.18 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 2 CHURCHES CLA/079 Reference Description Dates CLA/079/01/007 A letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the 1846 present wants of the Church by Henry Kingscote, concerned with the appointment, recognition and value of Deacons, lay Helpers & c in populous parishes around London. 34 pp Former reference: PD. 46.13 CLA/079/01/008 Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure 1923 Former reference: Misc.Ms.81/8 CLA/079/01/009 Benefices (Exercise of Rights of Presentation) 1931 Measure. Former reference: Misc.Ms. 81/9 CLA/079/01/010 Reorganisation Areas Measure 1944 Former reference: Misc.Ms. 81/10 CLA/079/01/011 London livings in the Lord Chancellor's Gift nd CLA/079/01/013 Papers of General Purposes Committee 1923 relative to the Union of Benefices and Disposal of Churches (Metropolis) Measure Former reference: Misc.Ms 259.3 CLA/079/01/014 The menace to the City churches, by 1926 Christopher Hussey Reprint from Country Life, 13 Nov. 1926, pp. 733-742, illus. ('The City churches menaced by the Bishop of London's Measure, illustrated by photographs of some of the less known churches') Former reference: PD. 91.5 CLA/079/01/015 "Protection of the City Churches in the War" by 1941 - 1945 W. Godfrey Allen, F.R.I.B.A., and "The Future of the City Churches" by Prof. A.E. Richardson R.A. Papers read at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the City Churches, 15th Oct. 1945. With: "The Works and Future of the City Churches" by Rev. James Work, M.A. reprinted from the "Quarterly Review" for the S.P.C.K. 1941/2. Former reference: PD. 53.31 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 3 CHURCHES CLA/079 Reference Description Dates CLA/079/01/016 City Church and Churchyard Protection 1880 - 1883 Society. Reports of the 1st & 2nd Annual Meetings 23 June 1880 and 1881. Also Report on the City Churchyards, their condition etc. n.d. and letters and extracts relating to the destruction of City Churches 1882-3. Former reference: PD. 55.2 CLA/079/01/017 Minutes of the Church Removal Committee. 1833 - 1834 Former reference: Misc.Ms.247.2 CLA/079/01/018 Ward churches in the City 1952 Any City church can be designated a ward church by the Bishop of London, following representations from the alderman and common councilmen of any ward (or 2 majority of them). The procedure is laid out in the City of London (Guild Churches) Act, 1952, (15 & 16 Geo. VI & 1 Eliz.2 ch.xxxviii), Part IV Former reference: PD.38.19 CLA/079/01/019 French Protestant Church, Threadneedle 1670 - 1708 Street: Copy award of Hooke and Oliver in arbitration between the Ministers, Elders & c of the Church and Thomas Hoard, as to a passage-way to the west end of the Church and light to the west window. 1 Sept. 1670. With Petition of Ministers, Elders & Deacons of French Church in Threadneedle Street praying Court of Aldermen to continue to admit & approve as brokers well-qualified members of the church (not being free), read 1 June 1708. BR/PA 11 Former reference: Misc.Ms 140.3 INDIVIDUAL PARISH CHURCHES CLA/079/02/001 Charter (copy) to the Borough of St Albans. 27 1664 - 1667 July 16 Chas.II [1664] With: Copy Bye-Laws made under the Charter. Confirmed 4 July 1667 Former reference: Misc.Ms.178.2 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 4 CHURCHES CLA/079 Reference Description Dates CLA/079/02/002 Some Old-Time "Friends" of St. Andrew 1934 - 1947 Undershaft. By the Rev. Sir Henry L.L. Denny, Bart. Reprinted from Occasional Paper No. 3 of "The Friends of the City Churches" 8p. 1947 With: Programme of Stow Commemoration Service 27 April 1934 Former reference: PD. 105.9 CLA/079/02/003 St Bartholomews, liberty of: Extract of grant for 1394 - 1843 life by Hospital of St Bartholomew to Thomas Appeltrewyk and Marion his wife of property formerly granted to Richard Lakenham, from Husting Roll 3 Henry 4, dated 3 Dec. 1394. Also: Swearing of constables and scavengers for the parish of St Bartholomews Copy translation of grant by the King to Sir Richard Rich of the site of the dissolved monastry of St Bartholomews West Smithfield, Bartholomew Close, Bartholomew the grant, 19 May 36 H.8, 1544. Letters of Ward Clerk 1893 as to the position of the precincts. Former reference: Misc.Ms.209.2 CLA/079/02/004 ST BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT; Scheme to 1885 - 1894 complete the restoration of the Norman Priory Church by raising £2,700 to obviate the treated destruction of the fifteenth century Lady Chapel and Crypt. [1894. 4pp. illus] With: List of contribution and views showing present condition of the Ancient Priory Church. 1885. 3pp. 2 illus. And Proposed restoration 1885, 4pp. with plan showing secular encroachments. Former reference: PD. 26.16 CLA/079/02/005 St Benet Link; Representations of sundry 1840 inhabitants relative to the exterior repairs & improving the entrance & avenue of the Church. Former reference: Misc.Ms. 28.20 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 5 CHURCHES CLA/079 Reference Description Dates CLA/079/02/006 St. Botolph (without) Aldgate: The Open 1877 - 1891 Spaces Acts 1877-1890 Statement describing the Tombstones & Monuments in the Churchyard adjoining the Parish Church. June 1891 (Plan, with list of names and dates of such tombstones as are legible) Former reference: Misc.Ms.21.30 CLA/079/02/007 St Botolph Aldgate; Report, City Solicitors as to 2 Oct 1944 the history of the Vestry Hall, 129, Minories, its transfer to the V. R. Dept and the responsibility of providing a Vestry Hall, arising from the destruction of the building by enemy action. Former reference: Misc.Ms.140.8 CLA/079/02/008 ST BOTOLPH Without Aldgate: Life and Death 1970 in Shakespeare's London. By Thomas R. Forbes Reprinted from American Scientist, Vol. 58, No.5, Sept.-Oct. 1970, pp. 511-520; based on the parish records of St Botolph without Aldgate in the G.L. 10 page Former reference: PD. 105.15 CLA/079/02/009 Precept to the Sheriffs to cause twelve men to 5 Nov 1682 meet the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to assess "such recompence and satisfaction as they shall think filt to be awarded to the Parishioners of St. Buttolph Billingsgate for the Interest which they & c in connection with their old and new church. Former reference: Misc.Ms.16.5 CLA/079/02/010 Notes, copy correspondence etc. relating to 25 Feb 1976 Records less than 30 years old meeting with Secretary etc. of Church are NOT available for Commissioners concerning disused burial consultation. ground belonging to former parish of St. Botolph Billingsgate [Includes copy documents c.1973-1976. Pastoral scheme proposed sale of burial ground]. Former reference: Misc.Ms. 363.11 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 6 CHURCHES CLA/079 Reference Description Dates CLA/079/02/011 Sr. Builders, Fleet Street: Order of court and of 1676 vestry re a loan of œ500 to the parish out of the Chamber, 23rd & 25th November, 1676, on the security of the parish warrants on the coal money. Former reference: Misc.Ms. 157.12 CLA/079/02/012 "Mortality Books for 1820 to 1849 from the 1972 Parish of St. Bride, Fleet Street, London "by Thomas R. Forbes. Offprint from Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. XXVII No.1. January 1972 pp. 15-29. (An examination of burial registers for information on causes of death). Former reference: PD. 107.14 CLA/079/02/013 Instructions for consideration, in regard to the 1797 City Bill depending in Parliament for improving the Port of London, on of the Royal Hospital or Collegiate Church of St.