WORCESTER OLD ST MARTIN

Descriptive Notes:
In 1905, following Ecclesiastical parish changes, Worcester St Martin's Church, in the Cornmarket ceased to be the parish church of St. Martin's parish, becoming a chapel of ease in St. Swithun's Parish. The status and parochial rights were transferred to the London Road Mission Church, pending the building and consecration of the new St. Martin's Church in April 1911. The congregation at the St Martin's Church in the Cornmarket expressed a wish to retain the same dedication, so that the church became known as Worcester Old St Martin Church to distinguish it from the new St Martin's Church in London Road.
St Swithun ceased to be a parish in 1978. The parish then became Worcester St Martin in the Cornmarket. St. Swithun's Church is now closed for worship and has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since 1977. [5] [40]

Status:
Chapel of Ease / Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO852550

Parish Church:
St. Martin, Cornmarket, Worcester

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1] [25]

Hundred:
Part Worcester Borough, part Lower Oswaldslow [25] [44]

Poor Law Union:
Worcester (1836-94) [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Claines; Warndon; Spetchley; Whittington; Worcester St Peter; Blockhouse Extra Parochial; Worcester St Helen; Worcester St Swithun; Worcester St Nicholas [1] [ Worcestershire Library and History Centre ]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1917-71	[5]
Originals at WRO	Marriages	1917-85	[12]
	Burials	1962-77	[12]
	Banns	1906-[23], 1949-[72]	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
See Worcester St Martin

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]
See Worcester St Martin

Register Copies: Society of Genealogists [68]
See Worcester St Martin

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Shop
St Martin's in the Cornmarket

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St Martin's in the Cornmarket

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Old St Martin

At Society of Genealogists [59]
WORCESTER (St. Martin in the Cornmarket) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9   Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991   Author Bushell, L (transcription.)   Author Farmer, G R (transcription.) Source D: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 

WORCESTER (Tallow Hill) : Monumental Inscriptions in the burial ground: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 2 [Manuscript.]   IN: Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 2   Published , Nd.   Author Bloom, J Harvey (transcription.) 

Census Records:
See Worcester St Martin

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
See Worcester St Martin

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
See Worcester St Martin

Directories:
The living of St. Martin's is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £15. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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