RECORDS OF ST PAUL'S CHURCH, HAMMERSMITH

CONTENTS

REGISTERS

Registers of Confirmations, 1879-1906

Registers of Banns of Marriage, 1924-1981 (gaps)

Registers of Churchings, 1867-1878, 1917-1955

Transcripts, [1664-1668]

CHURCH SERVICES

Registers of Church Services, 1868-1990 (gaps)

Licence for Services, 1873

Service Sheets and Programmes, 1895-1976

STAFF

Curates' Licences, 1836-1888

Insurance, 1907-1949

Grants, 1923

PARISH BOUNDARIES

Acts of Parliament and Schemes, 1834-1968

BENEFICE

Establishment, [1629-1740]

Tithe, 1879-1928

Terriers, 1889-1907

Fees, 1837-1870

Vicarage, 1879-1957

Churchyard, [1853]-1983

Sequestration, 1948-1957

CHURCH FABRIC

Faculties and Citations, 1882-1982

Building New Church, 1882-1886

Inventories and Reports, 1933-1969

Bells, 1882

Correspondence, 1929-1967

Insurances, 1907-1950

CHURCH HALL, 1951-1967

FINANCIAL

Churchwardens' Accounts, 1656-1715, 1773-1818, 1835, 1879-1921, 1961-1972

Building and Restoration Funds, 1882-1953

Planned Giving Scheme, [1930s]-1956

Pew Rents, 1812-1914

Annual Balance Sheets, 1895-1901, 1923-1985

Diocesan Returns, 1920-1927, 1962-1983

VESTRY

Scheme, 1901

Minutes, 1929-1976

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

Minutes, 1920-1984

Reports of Committees, 1921- 1928

Minutes of Committees, 1920-1935, 1977-1984

Correspondence, 1921-1929

Electoral Rolls, 1952-1971

PAROCHIAL CHARITIES

John Allen's Charity, [1756]-1976

Stephen Burton's Charity, 1903, 1948

St Mark's Mission Charity, 1933, 1948

Edward Latymer's Charity, 1937-1951

Hammersmith Charities, 1856, 1959

Alms Boxes, 1850-1878

CHURCH SCHOOL

St Paul's National Schools

Managers' Minutes, 1859-1920

Accounts, 1845-1927

Log Books, 1863-1925

Reports of Inspection, 1905-1916

Pupil-Teachers, 1884-1895

Title Deeds, [1719]-1951

Miscellaneous, 1898-1958

Latymer School (Foundation and Upper), 1922-1956

PARISH MAGAZINES, 1926-1934

MISCELLANEOUS

Convent de Notre Dame de Bon Secours de Troyes in London, 1872-1905

<span class="wrapper"><p>Two earlier deposits of parish registers and records have been made. See DD/71 and DD/746.</p> <p>See also list of inherited records of the Hammersmith Vestry (ref:PAH/1); Local History Collection for printed material including parish magazines, illustrations and ephemera, (ref H283.1 SAI); DD/384 for scrapbook of items relating to St Paul's Church, particularly newspaper cuttings, printed notices and programmes.</p></span>

Deposited by the Church Administrator, on behalf of the incumbent, 19 March and 5 May 1993.

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.

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 consecrated 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.

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.