Catalogue description PARISH RECORDS OF THE CLOSE

This record is held by West Sussex Record Office

Details of Cap/I/18
Reference: Cap/I/18
Title: PARISH RECORDS OF THE CLOSE
Description:

The Precinct of the Cathedral Close has always formed a separate ecclesiastical parish, but had close connexions with Subdeanery parish.

 

The Close contributed to Subdeanery parish for the maintenance of its poor (Cap/I/18/3). The Bishop's Palace Chapel, which unlike the rest of the Close, was not under the control of the Dean and Chapter, was used as a chapel of ease for country incumbents living in Chichester (see introduction to Cap/I/18/2).

Date: 1699-1943
Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Immediate source of acquisition:

The registers of the Close (D.R.O., Par.46) were deposited in the Diocesan Record Office with those of Subdeanery (D.R.O., Par.44).

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