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 Archives

Parish Registers at Worcestershire Archives

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		Coverage	Source
Microform	Christenings	1917-71	[5]
Originals	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 Archives [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.)

Directories

An extract from the Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis:

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.

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