A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
The original chapel was built ca. 1823 as an Independent Chapel. The building was sold to the Church of England around 1835 and renamed Christ Church.
"In the Brixton road, which, commencing near Kennington common, passes the east end of St. Mark's church, is Holland Chapel, a neat stuccoed edifice, with a bell-turret over the central part. This was built by the Rev. J. Styles, D.D., in 1823, for Independents, but has for some years been an Episcopal proprietary chapel. Here are three galleries and a good organ, with accommodations for about one thousand persons. The present minister is the Rev. Henry Christmas, A.M., librarian and secretary to Sion College."A Topographical History of Surrey, Brayley, E.W. 1850. It was enlarged ca. 1855 and demolished in 1899 when the new Christ Church was built on the site. There is no graveyard at this church. The church became the parish church of the new 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 Christ Church Brixton Road in 1856, the new parish was created from part of 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 Kennington St. Mark which was itself created from part of the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of St. Mary Lambeth in 1825. There are around 780 names from Kennington St. Mark in the Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index which date from ca. 1813 to ca. 1970; and around 1,072 names from the churchyard at St. Mary Lambeth dating from the 1500s to the 1900s.
Search for any references to your ancestor in the Surrey Index of Names:
https://www.wsfhs.co.uk/pages/sindex/siSearch.php (opens in new browser window) or use our contact form to find out which Monumental Inscription collections might be available: https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact Kennington St. Mark West Surrey Family History Society CD29(A 2nd Collection of Metropolitan Surrey Burials Index) has burial records for Kennington St. Mark from 1838 to 1839 and from 1841 to 1842. See our sales page for more information (opens in a new page). Lambeth St. Mary Our sister society, East Surrey FHS has the CDs for Lambeth baptisms and burials in their bookstall; go to their web site for more information . The site of the Holland Chapel is in the London Borough of Lambeth. The church is in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark. The Southwark Diocesan Record Office, where you should find any surviving parish registers for this church, is the London Metropolitan Archives.
Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A. Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.
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