The Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library is the local record office for the City of London (the "Square Mile"), although the records of the City of London Corporation are separately administered. During the medieval period there were over 100 parishes within the City and the Manuscripts Section holds the surviving records of all but two of these City parishes. The following list of parishes and non-parochial chapels within the City does not include any covering dates or any information on indexes, transcripts or Bishop's transcripts. Further information about these can be found in City of London Parish Registers (Guildhall Library 1999). This is available for consultation in the Manuscripts Section or for purchase from Guildhall Library Bookshop (E-mail: bookshop@cityoflondon.gov.uk).
Staff will be pleased to give advice on access and the availability of transcripts and indexes. Please note: the survival rate of records varies from parish to parish and readers are welcome to contact the Manuscripts Section prior their visit.
Allhallows Barking by the Tower
Allhallows Bread Street
Allhallows Honey Lane
Allhallows Lombard Street
Allhallows London Wall
Allhallows Staining
Allhallows the Great
Allhallows the Less
All Saints Skinner Street
Bridewell Chapel
Christchurch Newgate Street (also known as Christchurch Greyfriars)
Fleet Prison, and rules of the Fleet. Transcripts only. Original registers are held at the National Archives, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU.
Guildhall Chapel (non-parochial)
Holy Trinity Gough Square
Holy Trinity Minories
Holy Trinity the Less
Lamb's Chapel, Monkwell Street (non-parochial)
Mercers' Hall Chapel (non-parochial). Original registers are held at the National Archives, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU. Some marriages are recorded in parish registers held at Guildhall Library.
Old Red Hand and Mitre Chapel (non-parochial). Transcripts only. Original registers are held at the National Archives, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU.
St Alban Wood Street
St Alphage London Wall
St Andrew by the Wardrobe
St Andrew Holborn
St Andrew Hubbard
St Andrew Undershaft
St Ann Blackfriars
St Anne and St Agnes
St Antholin Budge Row
St Augustine Watling Street
St Bartholomew by the Exchange
St Bartholomew Moor Lane
St Bartholomew the Great
St Bartholomew the Less. Transcripts only (incomplete date coverage). Original registers held by the Archivist, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE (by appointment only).
St Benet Fink
St Benet Gracechurch
St Benet Paul's Wharf
St Benet Sherehog
St Botolph Aldersgate (also known as St Botolph Without Aldersgate)
St Botolph Aldgate (also known as St Botolph Without Aldgate)
St Botolph Billingsgate
St Botolph Bishopsgate (also known as St Botolph Without Bishopsgate)
St Bride Fleet Street
St Christopher le Stocks
St Clement Eastcheap
St Dionis Backchurch
St Dunstan in the East
St Dunstan in the West
St Edmund the King and Martyr
St Ethelburga Bishopsgate
St Ewin (no registers extant). Amalgamated with St Nicholas Shambles to form Christchurch Newgate Street in 1547.
St Faith under St Paul
St Gabriel Fenchurch
St George Botolph Lane
St Giles Cripplegate
St Gregory by St Paul
St Helen Bishopsgate
St James Duke's Place
St James Garlickhithe
St James in the Wall - see Lamb's Chapel
St John the Baptist Walbrook
St John the Evangelist Friday Street
St John Zachary
St Katherine Coleman
St Katherine Cree
St Lawrence Jewry
St Lawrence Pountney
St Leonard Eastcheap
St Leonard Foster Lane (transcripts only)
St Magnus the Martyr
St Margaret Lothbury
St Margaret Moses
St Margaret New Fish Street
St Margaret Pattens
St Martin Ludgate
St Martin Orgar
St Martin Outwich
St Martin Pomeroy
St Martin Vintry
St Mary Abchurch
St Mary Aldermanbury
St Mary Aldermary
St Mary at Hill
St Mary Axe (No registers for this parish are known; early registrations seem to be included in the registers of St Andrew Undershaft)
St Mary Bothaw
St Mary Colechurch
St Mary le Bow
St Mary Magdalen Milk Street
St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street
St Mary Mounthaw
St Mary Somerset
St Mary Staining
St Mary Woolchurch Haw
St Mary Woolnoth
St Matthew Friday Street
St Michael Bassishaw
St Michael Cornhill
St Michael Crooked Lane
St Michael le Querne
St Michael Paternoster Royal
St Michael Queenhithe
St Michael Wood Street
St Mildred Bread Street
St Mildred Poultry
St Nicholas Acons
St Nicholas Cole Abbey
St Nicholas Olave
St Nicholas Shambles (amalgamated with St Ewin to form Christchurch Newgate in 1547)
St Olave Hart Street
St Olave Jewry
St Olave Silver Street
St Pancras Soper Lane
St Paul's Cathedral (non-parochial)
St Peter Cornhill
St Peter le Poer
St Peter Paul's Wharf
St Peter Westcheap
St Sepulchre Holborn (also known as Holy Sepulchre Without Newgate)
St Stephen Coleman Street
St Stephen Walbrook
St Swithin London Stone
St Thomas Apostle
St Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls
St Vedast Foster Lane
Temple Church. Transcripts only (incomplete date coverage). Registers (from 1628) held by the Master of the Temple, Master's House, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB.
Whitefriars Precinct. No separate register maintained. Registrations can be found in surrounding parishes.
The Manuscripts Section also holds some registers of some non-City parishes:
Aske's Hospital Chapel, Hoxton, Shoreditch (Middlesex)
Geffery's Almshouses Chapel, Shoreditch (Middlesex)
St George the Martyr, Southwark (Surrey). Parish Clerk's notebooks only.
St Katharine by the Tower (Middlesex)
St Leonard, Shoreditch (Middlesex)
St Mark, Old Street, Shoreditch (Middlesex)
St Mary's Hospital Chapel, Ilford (Essex)
St Peter, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch (Middlesex)
Please note that this list does not include those parishes for which we hold transcripts, Bishops' transcripts or indexes. For further information about these and for covering dates of the above, please see Greater London Parish Registers (Guildhall Library, 2001). This is available for consultation in the Manuscripts Section or for purchase from Guildhall Library Bookshop (E-mail: bookshop@cityoflondon.gov.uk).
Last updated October 2008