Thursday, November 10, 2011

How Well Do You Know Greater London's Parishes and Chapelries: Westminster!

Here's a comprehensive List of Westminster's parishes and chapelries in pre-1900; those with asterisks (*) indicate the ancient or 'mother' parishes:

Westminster St. James:

  • * St. James - 1685
  • St. John the Baptist, Great Marlboro' Street - 1867
  • St. Luke, Berwick Street - 1841
  • St. Paul, Wilton Place, Westminster - 1843
  • St Peter, Great Windmill Street - 1861
  • St Peter, Palace St - 1822
  • St Peter’s Chapel, Palace St - 1890
  • St. Thomas, Regent Street - 1869
  • Westminster, St. Margaret and St. John Evangelist:
  • All Saints, Knightsbridge - 1849 Christ Church, Broadway - 1840

*Holy Trinity, Knightsbridge - 1658 (used to be Knightsbridge Chapel ca. 1629)

  • Holy Trinity, Vauxhall Bridge Road - 1852
  • St. Andrew, Victoria Street - 1856
  • St. James the Less, Upper Garden Street - 1861
* St. John the Evangelist - 1728

* St. Margaret - 1539

  • St. Mary the Virgin, Tothill Fields - 1841 
  • St. Matthew, Great Peter Street - 1850
  • St. Peter, Abbey - 1607 (Westminster Abbey)
  • St Peter, Regent St, Westminster - 1861 
  • St. Stephen, Rochester Row - 1847
*Westminster St. Mary le Strand - 1558
St. Martin-in-the-Fields:
  • St. John the Evangelist, Drury La. - 1855
  • * St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster – 1550
  • St. Michael, Burleigh St. - 1848
*St Martin le Grand, Westminster - pulled down in 1548
St. Anne, Soho:
* St. Anne - 1686
  • St. Mary the Virgin, Charing Cross Road - 1850
* St. Clement Danes - 1558
*St George Hanover Square:
  • Berkeley Chapel, John Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair [by at least 1810; became St Saviour's in 1864]. Proprietary Chapel - became: St.Mary, Bourdon Street. Chapel-of-Ease to St.Geo.Han.Sq.[in 1882]
  • Brunswick Chapel, Upper Berkley St - 1899
  • Charlotte Chapel [?] (See under "Pimlico" in the Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales at Vision of Britain)
  • Christ Church, Down Street, Mayfair [1865]
  • Curzon Chapel, Curzon Street, Mayfair. Proprietary Chapel. Successor to the Mayfair Chapel, the marriage shop of the infamous Dr.Keith who defied church and state authority, with his asistants conducting 7,000-plus marriages c.1730 until activities were stopped by the Lord Hardwicke Marriage Act of 1753. Oddly enough, the registers were well-kept and went to the parish church (St.George's Hanover Square), and the Bishop's Transcripts to the diocesan registry. Out of operation by 1894.
  • Eaton Chapel, Eaton Terrace. Proprietary Chapel. [1836?] closed 1901??
  • Ebury Chapel [a proprietary chapel] of ease [prior to 1870]
  • Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street [1730] - Still open
  • Hanover Church, Regent Street [1823] became district church, then replaced by: St. Anselm, Davies Street, Berkeley Square. [Separate parish 1899?] - closed 1938, Parish united to Hanover Square and St. Mark, North Audley Street. Is now gone.
  • St. Anselm Davies Street - see Hanover Church
  • St Barnabas, Church Street, Pimlico -1850
  • St John's Chapel, Pimlico Road. Chapel-of-Ease to above.
  • St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico - 1852
  • St George's Chapel, Albermarle Street. Proprietary Chapel [1740?] Licensed for marriages 1899-1909. Registers survive 1888-1909.
  • St. George Hanover Square: All Saints - 1871
  • St John, Belgrave Square. Proprietary Chapel. Possibly the same as: Belgrave Chapel Halkin Street [1898-1910].
  • St John the Evangelist, Wilton Road Chapel-of-Ease to above [1874?] 
  • St Mark, North Audley Street [1828]. Parish united to St.George Hanover Square 1968
  • St Mary Bowdon Street - see St George Hanover Square - 1725
  • St Mary, Graham Street [now Bourne Street] [1909]
  • St. Michael, Chester Square - 1846 
  • St. Paul, Knightsbridge w/ St. Mary, Graham
  • St Paul, Wilton Place [Knightsbridge] - 1843
  • St Peter, Eaton Square - 1827
  • St Peter, Buckingham Gate/Palace Street Chapel-of-Ease - 1822?
  • St Philip, Buckingham Palace Road [1888]. Separate parish 1890
  • St Saviour's (for Deaf and Dumb) Chapel, Oxford Street
  • St Saviour, St George's Square, Pimlico. 1864
  • Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street - 1691
Taken from:  A Guide to Ancestral Research in London