WORCESTER ST NICHOLAS

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Abolished civilly in 1898 to help create Worcester Civil Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO850550

Parish Church:
St. Nicholas, High St., Worcester
The parish church of St. Nicholas was declared redundant on 2 August 1989 - it is now a restaurant. [80]

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [25]

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

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

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1564-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1563-1958	[5]
	Burials	1563-1904	[5]
	Banns	1804-1956	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	1564-1984	[12]
	Marriages	1563-1984	[12]
	Banns	1754-1986	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1564-1812, Marriages 1663-1755, Burials 1563-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977

Christenings 1846-1918, Marriages 1896-1943, Burials 1859-1904; overseers of the poor: account book 1632-50 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah

Christenings 1918-66, Marriages 1943-58, banns 1804-1956 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1982

Christenings & Burials 1702-30, Christenings 1813-46, Marriages 1702-30, 1754-1896, banns 1754-1804, Burials 1813-59 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At Worcestershire Record Office [51] :-
St Nicholas: Epitaphs
Plan & check list of surnames from inscriptions & memorial on gravestones in crypt (photocopy)

MIs: in Bloom's , 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 HQq942.4405031

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial1660-1852 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers of the poor account book 1632-1650, 1775-90
Churchwardens account book (inc lists of benefactors) 1678-1811
Church rate & order book 1739-78
Church account book 1745-50
Vestry meeting order book (inc list of benefactors) 182-43
Rate & Churchwardens accounts 1821-70
Receipts & payments books 1838-68
c.165 Church rate assessment books & other general account books 18th - 19th cent.
The Ball's Sunday School Book 1798
C400 vouchers re. St Nicholas day scjool 1882-91
c.85 Settlements, examination certificates, Churchwardens accounts, articles of visitation & papers mainly about the Poor Law 18th & 19th cent.
c.130 Poor Law papers inc. apprenticeship indentures & receipts 17th-19th cent.
c.45 receipts & other papers 18th & 19th cent.
c.40 settlements, examination certificates, Churchwardens accounts, articles of visitation & other papers mainly to do with the Poor Law 18th & 19th cent.
c.120 removal orders & other papers of the churchwardens & overseers 18th cent.
c.180 examination certificates 18th cent.
c.50 apprenticeship indentures & other papers of the churchwardens 18th & 19th cent.
c.250 Poor Law papers inc. bands, removal orders, examination orders & receipts 18th cent.
17 briefs with details of money collected c.1811
List of money collected in St.Nicholas parish for the French Protestants 1686
c.60 papers inc. apprenticeship indentures, letters & faculties 19th cent
c.100 papers, letters, accounts, receipts & booklets referring to the appeal for restoration of the church 1912-13
c.30 estimates, accounts, letters & other papers re. the church clock 1909-10
Signed minutes of the St Nicholas Church restoration committee 1864-5
List of donors to Restoration Fund 1867
3 notebooks listing promised donations for thr Restoration Fund 1864-5
c.100 letters, accounts, receipts etc re Restoration Fund 1864-8
c.250 papers mainly re finances of the Parish , Poor Law & local militia 18th & 19th cent.
Copies of London Gazetted, Worcester Herald, Berrows Worcester Journal & Worcester Chronicle with references to St. Nicholas Curch & parish 1852-75
c.150 papers re registration of marriages & deaths 19th cent.
c.200 miscellaneous papers mainly of the churchwardens & overseers registration of marriages & deaths 19th cent.
Plan, elevation & section intended for a gallery on the northside of St.Nicholas Church 1790
Note on St.Nicholas Vestry Library 1902
The Poor's book: containing names of those in the workhouse & the amount of their weekly allowance 1737-50
Aquatint of St.Nicholas Church, drawn by T.Richards 1813, published 1815, 6 copies

Directories:
The living of St. Nicholas' is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £16. 10. 7½, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the church is a uniform modern structure, with a handsome steeple, and, from its situation in the more open part of the town, forms a conspicuous and interesting object in the perspective of the Foregate and Broad-street. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis] 

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