Surrey Churches Index



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Rotherhithe, St Mary

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The present church dates from ca. 1714 although there has been a church on the site since the late 13th Century.

The Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Index contains over 102,000 entries for Rotherhithe St. Mary


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Parts of the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Rotherhithe St. Mary were moved into new ecclesiastical parishesan 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 :
  • Rotherhithe All Saints(1840)
  • Rotherhithe Christ Church(1840)
  • Rotherhithe Holy Trinity(1841)
  • Rotherhithe St Barnabus(1873)
  • Rotherhithe St Katherine(1886)



West Surrey Family History Society CD29(A 2nd Collection of Metropoitan Surrey Burials) has burial records for Rotherhithe St Mary from 1813-1855 and 1859-1878

WSFHS CD39(A 3rd Collection of Surrey Baptisms) has baptismal records for Rotherhithe St Mary from 1752-1764 and 1869-1875.

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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 Archives (formerly called the London Metropolitan Archives).




Rotherhithe is a district within the London Borough of Southwark
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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