PARISH OF PRESTON ST PETER

Summary of contents:

INCUMBENT

PAR456/1/1 Early registers; 1754-1812

PAR456/1/2 Baptism registers; 1813-1983

PAR456/1/3 Marriage registers; 1813-1990

PAR456/1/4 Banns registers; 1937-1977

PAR456/1/5 Burial registers; 1813-1973

PAR456/2 Records concerning the parish registers; 1897-1967

PAR456/3 Service registers; 1902-1989

VESTRY

PAR456/12 Minutes; 1846-1905

<p>For registers covering 1538-1785 (marriages to 1754), see PAR 386/1/1/1-2; they were published by E F Salmon as 'The Parish Registers of Hove and Preston' (1912). For parish magazine, 1901, see PAR 456/7/1/1; for the poll for the election of the Preston Burial Board, recording the names and addresses of the electors, and the number of votes cast for the resolution or for the amendment, 1882 see HOW 35/2; for a list of persons polled at the Preston vestry meeting, recording the names and addresses of the electors, and the number of votes cast, 1882 see HOW 35/3; for a report of Sir Arthur Blomfield on the church of Preston St Peter, 1899, see PAR456/43/1/1</p>

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC 9 April 1981 (ACC 2680), 2 September 1983 (ACC 4131), 4 May 2001 (ACC 8339)

The livings of Preston and Hove were held by one vicar until 1878, by which time their respective populations had increased, and it was necessary to separate the two. Initial plans to enlarge St Peter's church were abandoned, and it was decided to build a new church nearby. The nave of St John's was completed and dedicated on 26 October 1902, and it replaced St Peter's as the parish church at the end of 1908. Communion services were no longer held at St Peter's after July 1987, although baptisms, marriages and funerals continued to 1989. The building was vested in the Redundant Churches Fund with effect from 1 June 1990.

Between 1531 and 1878 the livings of St Peter Preston and St Andrew Hove were united.