PARISH OF ST LEONARDS ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (UPPER ST LEONARDS)

Summary of contents

INCUMBENT

PAR 472/1/2 Baptism registers; 1866-1983

PAR 472/1/3 Marriage registers; 1881-1984

PAR 472/1/4 Banns registers; 1881-1962

PAR 472/1/6 Confirmation register; 1917-1987

PAR 472/2 Records relating to registers; 1866-1900

PAR 472/3 Service registers; 1904-1989

PAR 472/4 Buildings and property; 1880-1987

PAR 472/5 Institutions, inductions and licences; 1943, 1955

PAR 472/6 Income of the benefice; 1883-1963

PAR 472/7 Other records; 1868-1966

CHURCHWARDENS

PAR 472/10 Property; 1931-1989

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

PAR 472/14 Minutes; 1920-1928

PAR 472/15 Accounts; 1924-1987

PAR 472/16 Other records; 1924-1970

PAR 472/24 Charities; 1882-1959

PAR 472/43 Special committees and church groups; [1977]-1982

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC, 25 July1994 (ACC 6381)

In 1865 an iron church was erected which stood for a few months before collapsing during a gale. The brick building which suceeded it on Upper Maze Hill was destroyed by fire in 1878. In 1881 the district of Upper St Leonard's was constituted a parish and the church, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, was erected in the same year. Enemy action destroyed the majority of the building in February 1943, forcing the parish to use the gynmasium of the Girls' School, Cumberland Gardens, and the chapel of the Brethren of the Resurrection. The church itself was gradually rebuilt over the next two decades to the design of H S Goodhart-Rendel whilst services were held in the new parish hall PAR472/4/4; 7/2/2; 7/6/4).