CHRIST CHURCH, SAINT MARYLEBONE: COSWAY STREET, WESTMINSTER

COVERING DATES OF REGISTERS DEPOSITED

July 1825 - December 1939 Baptisms

August 1845 - August 1846 Baptisms solemnized at All Saints, Finchley Road

April 1866 - March 1870 Baptisms solemnized at St Cyprian, Clarence Gate

July 1825 - December 1957 Marriages

December 1826 - February 1853 Burials

Various registers and other church records

PARISH REGISTERS

ORDERING LIST

Original references (P..) or xerox copy references (R..) have to be ordered

Microfilms (X..) are available in the Reference Room

Note: Records deposited on 17 December 1981 are distinguished in this list by being marked with their accession number (Acc 1727)

Many of the parish records of Christ Church with St John for the 1930s and 1940s and a few earlier items remained at St John's and have been deposited here by the Vicar of St John's Wood. Rather than attempt to separate out items which relate primarily to Christ Church or to transfer all these records to Christ Church which was the parish church while St John's Wood was only a chapel of ease, it has been decided to list all these records with the parish records of St John's Wood Church as the place where they were last used. The only exception is a register of services at Christ Church 1892-1893 (P89/CTC/103) which has been transferred to the parish records of Christ Church as it filled a gap in the series of registers of services.

<span class="wrapper"><p>This list should be used in conjunction with the list of the parish records of St John's Wood.</p> <p>For copies of Christ Church News Nov 1967-May 1968, July, Oct 1968 see P89/CTC/109/2-10. Marylebone Library holds copies of Christ Church, Cosway Street parish magazine for 1877-1902 and 1961-1979</p></span>

P89/CTC/1 - 14 and 23-98 are not available for consultation, please use microfilms

Additional records depsited by Deaconess Williams, 255 Old Marylebone Road, London NW1, 29 February 1984 (Acc 1946)

Parish records of Christ Church, Cosway Street, St Marylebone, deposited by the Rector in Westminster City Libraries Archives Department, Marylebone Library in 1971 and transferred to the Greater London Record Office 18 April 1980 (Acc 1527) and additional parish records of Christ Church Cosway Street, deposited by the Rector in the Greater London Record Office 17 December 1981 (Acc 1727)

Christ Church, Cosway Street was founded in 1825 as one of the four district rectories established by Act of Parliament within the parish of St Marylebone. St John's Wood Chapel which had been built in 1814 as a chapel of ease to St Marylebone parish church became in 1898 a chapel of ease to Christ Church, Cosway Street, served by its own minister until the 1920s. The Rector of Christ Church, the Reverend T. G. Brierley Kay moved from Christ Church House into St John's House in 1932 and increasingly the parish appears to have been administered from St John's House. His successor, the Reverend O. H. Gibbs-Smith, appointed Rector of Christ Church in June 1941, was also in charge of the parishes of St Barnabas, Bell Street and St Stephen, Avenue Road, with St Andrew, Allitsen Road.

The scheme for the parochial reorganisation of St Marylebone published in 1945 proposed that the parish of Christ Church should be united with St Barnabas, Bell Street while it would lose St John's Wood Chapel which was to become the new parish church of what was essentially the former parish of St Stephen, Avenue Road. Although this scheme was not legally implemented until 1952, it came into force defacto at the beginning of 1848 when, on the resignation of the Reverend O. H. Gibbs-Smith, separate incumbents were appointed for the parishes of Christ Church with St Barnabas, and St Stephen with St John. On 1 January 1948 the Christ Church balances were separated from the St John's balances and a new ledger was opened for Christ Church, while St Stephen's with St John continued to use the former Christ Church ledger.

The parish of Christ Church was united with St Paul, Rossmore Road in 1971 to form the parish of Christ Church and St Paul, St Marylebone. Both churches became parish churches of the new parish until Christ Church was declared redundant in January 1977. The parish was united with St Mark with St Luke, St Marylebone in July 1978 and a team ministry was established. St Mark's Church is the parish church of the united parish which is known as the parish of Christ Church, St Marylebone

The fair registers of baptisms 1836-1845 are either incomplete or are entirely blank. The register for 1837 is missing. For these years use the rough registers of baptisms P89/CTC/48-51. (X97/266, X/23/122)