Catalogue description VISITATION BOOKS

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Details of DS/VB
Reference: DS/VB
Title: VISITATION BOOKS
Description:

Contains visitation returns for whole diocese 1907 - 1951. Visitation books usually contain annotated lists of parishes, parish clergy and churchwardens, arranged by rural deanery.

 

Visitation is the process by which a bishop oversees his diocese. Diocese Visitations (standardised in canons 109 to 119) are the act of the bishop, who visits persons and places in the diocese with a view of maintaining faith and discipline, and of correcting clerical and lay abuses. It was usual that the bishop held a primary visitation during the first year of office and then repeated as ordinary visitations at intervals of three to four years. The business of visitations and the hearing and judging of accusations was normally conducted not by the bishop in person, but by his official.

Date: 1907 - 1951
Arrangement:

The visitation books are arranged usually under ancient parish with the ancient parishes in alphabetical order.

Related material:

DS/VP Visitation Papers

 

DS/VR Visitation Call Books

Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 4.00 linear feet
Access conditions:

Records not to be produced without the specific written permission of the Diocesan Registrar until they are 50 years old

 

Visitation books after 1915 may be consulted only with the permission in writing of the Church Commissioners and of the Diocesan Registrar

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in 1963 by Church Commissioners (Ac/63/27) and by Southwark in 1965 (Ac/65/6)

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