WORCESTER ST MARY (CATHEDRAL)

Status:
Ecclesiastically an extra-parochial. Civilly not separate but included in Worcester College Precincts Civil Parish. It included:
A chapel at Worcester St Alban Ancient Parish, which was a separate parish by 1206
A chapel at Worcester St Helen Ancient Parish, which was a separate parish by the 10th cent. (See separate entry for creation of many chapels from Worcester St Helen as separate Ancient Parishes.)
A chapel at Spetchley, which was a separate parish by 1291. [25]

Location:
SO849545
Southern end of High St., Worcester

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1693-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1693-1961	[5]
	Burials	1693-1964	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	G1693-1811, 1813-1994	[27]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1702 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1693-1811

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Christenings & Burials 1693-1811, Marriages 1693-1754 - Published : Worcestershire Parish Register Society, 1913 - Author Browne, E Ophelia (trans.)
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1693-1811 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972

Marriage licence bonds in the Edgar Tower, Worcester, 1600-98 index [Manuscript.]
Transcript: 1693-1811 Dudley Archives & Local History Service [62]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Cathedral: Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Cathedral epitaphs Worcestershire Record Office [51]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :
Cathedral: MIs in old burying ground: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 2 [Manuscript.] - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
MIs in the cathedral & their stories: pictures of life in the city & cathedral during 10 centuries - Published Worcester : Phillips & Probert, 1925 - Author Ede, W Moore

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1693-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Other Sources:

At Society of Genealogists :
A guide to the monuments in Worcester cathedral - Published , 1947 - Author Macdonald, Alec (trans.)

Worcester Cathedral   Published London Pitkin Pictorials Ltd. 1975   Author Kemp, E W

Worcester Cathedral   IN: Cathedral church of Christ & the Blessed Virgin Mary, Worcester (cover)   Published Worcester Littlebury & Company Ltd. Nd.   Author Wilson, J M

Worcester Cathedral : a popular history with some notes on its architecture, library & school   Published Cheltenham : Tower Publications, Nd.   Author Ede, W Moore,   Author Hutchinson, F E et al.       Edition 16th edn.     

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