LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY

The database includes the core holdings:

• archives of the Archbishops and his officials
• the Library's extensive manuscripts (MS) sequence, from the medieval manuscripts to recently-catalogued acquisitions
• archives acquired from other churchmen and church bodies

Not all the archive and manuscript holdings are described here. Descriptions not on the system include:

• marriage licence data from the Faculty Office, 1714-1850, and Vicar General, 1694-1850:
  indexes are available in the Library, or online via FindMyPast www.findmypast.co.uk (to subscribers) or via the Society of Genealogists www.sog.org.uk/index.shtml (to SoG members)

• Incorporated Church Building Society (ICBS) archive:
  see www.churchplansonline.org

For the online catalogue of printed books, see the Lambeth Palace Library website. If you cannot find what you require, please contact Lambeth Palace Library.
 

CHURCH OF ENGLAND RECORD CENTRE

CENTRAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• the majority of the archive of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poorer Clergy, 1704-1948
• records of HM Commissioners for Building New Churches, 1818-1856
• part of the archive of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, 1836-1948
• part of the archive of the Church Estates Commissioners, 1850-
• a number of the archives of the predecessor bodies of the Archbishops’ Council, c.1883-

SOCIETIES
• archive of the Christian Evidence Society, 1870-
• the Church of England Sunday School Institute archive, 1843-1941
• part of the archive of the National Society, 1811-
• records of the Society of Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity Schools, 1706-1896

PAPERS OF INDIVIDUALS
• Francis Carolus Eeles, Liturgical scholar and historian, 1887-1989
• Canon Alfred Lambert Woodard, Envoy of the Central Council for Religious Education, 1922-c.1955

OTHER BODIES
• the majority of the archive of the British Council of Churches, 1942-1990
• records of the British Christian Council for International Friendship, Life & Work, 1945-1940
• records of the British Committee of the Universal Christian Council of Life & Work, 1925-1931
• records of the Christian Social Council, 1928-1939
• records of the Council on the Christian Faith & Common Life, 1937-1942
• records of the Commission of the Churches on International Friendship & Social Responsibility, 1938-1942
• records of the Ecclesiastical Courts Commission, 1830-1832
• records of the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Commission, 1835-1837
• records of the Episcopal and Capitular Revenues Commission, 1849-1850
• records of the World Alliance of International Friendship (British Section), 1914-1939

Not all the archive holdings are described here. If you cannot find what you require, please contact the Church of England Record Centre.

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