WORCESTER ST ANDREW

Descriptive Notes:
Only the tower and spire of this church remain. The spire is particularly fine and is known locally as "The Glover's Needle". It is exceptionally slender and is reputed to be the tallest in the country with such a narrow angle of taper.

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Area appropriated to Worcester Priory. A separate parish at the Dissolution. Abolished civilly in 1898 to help create Worcester Civil Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO849548

Parish Church:
St Andrew, Deansway, Worcester

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

Hundred:
Oswaldslow [11]

Poor Law Union:
Worcester (1836-98 [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Worcester All Saints; Worcester St Swithun; Worcester St Helen; Worcester St Alban; Worcester St Clement [1] [ Worcestershire Library and History Centre ]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1656-1936	[5]
	Marriages	1656-1936	[5]
	Burials	1656-1931	[5]
	Banns	1779-96	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1656-1769	[27]
	Marriages	1656-1755	[27]
	Burials	1656-1769	[27]
	General	1612-15, 1617, 1619-26, 1628-31, 1633-36, 1638-41	[27]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1754-1873	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1770-1875

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
St. Andrew: Christenings 1770-1936, Burials 1770-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964
St. Andrew: Marriages (Index) 1656-1755: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Notes on monuments and stones with index Worcestershire Record Office [51]
St. Andrew: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 2 [Manuscript.] - Author: Bloom, J Harvey (trans.) Society of Genealogists [59]

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 transcript on open shelves at HQq942.4465031

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Churchwardens accounts 1587-1631
Transcript of above
Churchwardens & overseers accounts 1636- 38
Minute book 1783-1875
Charity accounts & minute book 1765-1912
3 charity lists 17th cent
Map 1793
Miscellaneous papers 16th & 17th cent Note book 1932
Churchwardens & overseers accounts 1638-1727
Churchwardens accounts 1792 1908

Directories:
The living of St. Andrew's is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £10. 5. 10, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter. The church has recently undergone extensive reparation; the tower, in 1814, was cased with freestone; it is ninety feet in height, and is surmounted by an octagonal spire, one hundred and fiftyfive feet six inches high, regularly and symmetrically diminishing from twenty feet at the base, to only six inches and five-eighths at the top, the height of the tower and spire being two hundred and forty-five feet six inches; the whole is terminated by a Corinthian capital, and surmounted by a gilt weather-cock, and forms one of the most striking ornaments of the city: the spire was erected by Nathaniel Wilkinson, a stone mason of the city. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 9th February 2010

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