Surrey Churches Index



A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians

Croydon, St. Andrew

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St. Andrew's Church was built ca. 1857 as a Chapel of EaseA daughter church within an ecclesiastical Parish, or a chapel in an outlying area of the parish that is more convenient for parishioners to attend in the ecclesiastical parishan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England of Croydon St. Peter. St. Peter's parish had itself been formed from the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Croydon St. John the Baptist in 1853.


There is no graveyard at St. Andrews church. However there are 745 names in the Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index for Croydon St. Peter's Church dating from 1841 to 1882. They were collected in 1883 and published in "Croydon in the Past". There is also one war grave. Older burials may have taken place in the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions church -- St. John the Baptist.


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West Surry Family History Society CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has baptismal records for Croydon St. Andrew

from 1857 to 1876.

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Croydon St. Peter
West Surrey Family History Society CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Croydon St. Peter from 1852 to 1865.

WSFHS CD12 (Croydon Parish Registers to 1753 and Croydon Monumental Inscriptions to 1882) has Monumental Inscriptions for Croydon St. Peter from 1850 to 1881.

WSFHS CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has baptismal records for Croydon St. Peter

from 1851 to 1875.

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Croydon St. John the Baptist
West Surrey Family History Society CD10 (The Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Croydon St. John the Baptist from 1538 to 1852.

WSFHS CD12 (Croydon Parish Registers to 1753 and Croydon Monumental Inscriptions to 1882) has Christenings, Marriages and burials for Croydon St. John the Baptist from 1538 to 1753.

WSFHS CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has baptismal records for Croydon St. John the Baptist from 1538 to 1720, 1765 to 1799 and 1859 to 1876.

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The church is in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark. The Southwark Diocesan Record Office for churches and parishes in the modern administrative county of Surrey, and those London Boroughs that were in Surrey until 1965, is the Surrey History Centre.

This is where you should find any surviving parish registers,


St. Andrew's Church is in the London Borough of Croydon.


Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., jr.. Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.




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