Catalogue description St James the Great, Westerleigh

This record is held by Bristol Archives

Details of P/W
Reference: P/W
Title: St James the Great, Westerleigh
Description:

Registers

 

Incumbent

 

Churchwardens

 

Overseers of the Poor

 

Surveyors of the Highway

 

Constable

 

Vestry

 

Parochial Church Council

 

Charities

 

Statutory Bodies

 

Miscellaneous
Note:

To allow for the large numbers of documents within several grooups the usual system of sub-grouping by letter e.g. P/W/I/4(a) has been replaced by the use of further numbers e.g. P/W/I/4/1.

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Date: 1646 - 1973
Held by: Bristol Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Church of England, St James the Great's Parish, Westerleigh, Gloucestershire
Physical description: 14 vols, 1 roll, 1235 docs
Access conditions:

THESE RECORDS ARE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the vicar and churchwardens, 14 June 1974
Subjects:
  • Westerleigh, Gloucestershire
Administrative / biographical background:

Westerleigh is an ancient church which up to 1886 was a chapelry annexed to the cure of Pucklechurch. On 3rd August 1886 by an Order-in-Council it was created "a district chapelry". See P/W/I/7 The records contain many poor law papers which have been listed in detail, with an index attached to this schedule.
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