Spitalfields is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1729 from Stepney St Dunstan Ancient Parish; located on Commercial Road.
Alternative names: Christchurch Spitalfields, Christ Church Spitalfields
Other places in the parish include: Artillery.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1729
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Christians, French Protestant, Independent/Congregational, Irvingite/Catholic Apostolic Church, Particular Baptist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SPITALFIELDS, a parish and a sub-district in Whitechapel district, Middlesex.
The parish lies on the Great Eastern railway, and to the S of it, 1 mile ENE of St. Paul’s, London; includes, at Lolesworth, the site of a Roman cemetery, where urns, stone coffins, lamps, pottery, and coins were found in 1576; had an Augustinian priory and hospital, founded in 1197 by Sheriff Brune; had also, in Spital-square, a preaching cross, where sermons on the Resurrection were delivered, called “Spital sermons,” and which afterwards were delivered in Christchurch, Newgate-street.
It was mainly open unedificed ground, without the city walls, till 1685; began then to be extensively settled by French Protestants, mostly weavers, driven to England by the revocation of the edict of Nantes; became speedily a great seat of silk manufacture; continues still to be such, but after great fluctuations and with much decline; carries on other occupations akin to the silk manufacture, or connected with it; has also a great brewery and a soap factory; is now, and long has been, all compactly built.
It presents, on the whole, a crowded and poor appearance; has a market house, model lodging-Houses, three churches, a working-men’s institute, a mechanics’ institute, a school of design, parochial and national schools, industrial schools, a Dissenters’ school, a Jews’ free school, and alms houses.
It was part of Stepney parish till 1723; and is now ecclesiastically divided into S. Christchurch, S.-St. Stephen, and part of S.-St. Mary, the rest of which comprises the liberties of Old Artillery Ground and Norton-Folgate.
Christ church was built in 1723-9, after designs by Hawksmoor; was restored, in 1866, at a cost of £6,680; and has a Doric portico, and a tower and spire 234 feet high. St. Stephen’s church was built in 1862; and is in a peculiar Gothic style, with remarkable apse and curious tower.
The working men’s institute was built in 1865, at a cost of £3,500. Acres of the parish, 74. Real property, £49,526. Pop. in 1851, 20,960; in 1861, 20,593. Houses, 2,063.
The living of Christ church is a rectory, and the livings of St. Stephen and St. Mary are p. curacies, in the diocese of London. Value of C., £400; of St. S., £420; of St. M., £500. Patron, of C., T. F. Buxton, Esq.; of St. S., the Church Patronage Society; of St. M., Hyndman’s Trustees.
The sub-district excludes part of the parish; and is bounded, on the E, by Brick-lane,-on the W, by Wheeler-street, Crispin-street, and Bell-lane. Acres, 53. Pop., 15,700. Houses, 1,533.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Adams John, George street, Spitalfields, furniture dealer, Aug. 19, 1842.
Adams John, George st., Thrawl st., Spitalfields, feather merchant, May 24, 1839.
Adams William, jun., Brown’s lane, Spitalfields, brewer, Feb. 27, 1835.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Spitalfields, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Census – 1891 – Indexes ( 1 )
1891 census – index of heads of family : from the 1891 census project of Spitalfields
Author: Rau, Diana; Rau, Anthony; Newman, Aubrey
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Church records ( 21 )
Church records, 1687-1823
Author: French Protestant Church (Eglise de St. Jean, St. John Street)
Church records, 1689-1759
Author: Eglise de la Patente (Brown’s Lane, Spitalfields : French Protestant)
Church records, 1689-1785
Author: Eglise de la Patente (Brown’s Lane, Spitalfields : French Protestant)
Church records, 1691-1786
Author: Eglise de L’Artillerie (Spitalfields : French Protestant)
Church records, 1694-1716
Author: French Protestant Church (Eglise de Crispin Street, Spitalfields); Perle Street Chapel
Church records, 1703-1823
Author: Eglise de Wheeler Street (Spitalfields : French Protestant)
Church records, 1753-1809
Author: French Protestant Church (Eglise Nueve, Church Street)
Church records, 1756-1837
Author: White’s Row Chapel (Spitalfields : Independent)
Church records, 1783-1786
Author: Eglise de L’Artillerie (Spitalfields : French Protestant)
Church records, 1815-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church (Spitalfields, Middlesex)
Church records, 1922-1987
Author: Armenian Apostolic Church. Surp Sarkis (London, England)
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, Stepney, London, England (Christ Church); chrs., 1813-1876
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department; Church of England. Christ Church (Spitalfields, Middlesex)
Parish registers of Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1729-1916
Author: Church of England. Christ Church (Spitalfields, Middlesex)
Parish registers of St. Mary, Spital Square, Spitalfields, 1720-1875
Author: Church of England. St. Mary Spital Square Church (Spitalfields, Middlesex)
Register of the church of Saint Jean Spitalfields, 1687-1827
Author: Minet, Susan
Register of the Church of the Artillery, Spitalfields, 1691-1786
Author: Minet, Susan
Registers of the church known as La patente in Spittlefields, from 1689 to 1785
Author: Minet, William; Waller, William Chapman
Registers of the churches of La Patente de Soho, Wheeler Street, Swanfields, and Hoxton also the repertoire general
Author: Minet, Susan
Registres des eglises de la Chapelle Royale de Saint James, 1700-1756 / edited by William Minet and Susan Minet. Register of the Church of Saint Jean, Spitalfields, 1687-1827 / edited by Susan Minet. Extracts from the court books of the weavers company of London, 1610-1730 / made and edited by William Chapman Waller.
Author: Minet, Susan; Minet, William; Waller, William Chapman
Transcripts of church records of Sir George Wheeler’s Chapel, Spitalfield, Middlesex, England, 1720-1752
Author: Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Spitalfields (Middlesex)
Transcripts of parish registers of Spitalfield, Christ Church, Middlesex, England, 1730-1832
Author: Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Spitalfields (Middlesex)
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Church records – Indexes ( 18 )
Computer printout of Spitalfields, Church Street Wesleyan, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, Crispin Street French Hughenot, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, la Patente French Huguenot, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, St. Jean French Huguenot, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, St. Mary Spital Square or Wheeler Chapel, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, the Artillery French Huguenot, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, Wheeler Street French Huguenot, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Spitalfields, White’s Row Independent, Lond., Eng
Computer printout of Stepney, Spitalfields Christ Church, Lond., Eng
An index of the register of banns of marriage in the parish church of Christ Church, Spitalfields : in the county of Middlesex, 1833-1861
Author: Brown, Margaret; Church of England. Parish Church of Spitalfields (Middlesex)
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (Independent Church, Whites Row), christenings, 1756-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (La Patents French Huguenot), christenings, 1689-1785
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (Saint Jean French Huguenot), christenings, 1687-1823
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (Saint Mary Spital Square), christenings, 1842-1876
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (Saint Mary, Spital Square), christenings, 1783-1841
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (The Artillery, French Huguenot), christenings, 1691-1786
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (Wesleyan Church, Church Street Chapel), christenings, 1815-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Spitalfields, London, England, (Wheeler Street French Huguenot), christenings, 1703-1742
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – History ( 1 )
Life and death in Spitalfields, 1700 to 1850
Author: Cox, Margaret, 1950-
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Jewish records ( 1 )
Jewish records, 1883-1907
Author: Princes Street Synagogue (Spitalfields, Middlesex)
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Public records ( 1 )
The Case book of “La maison de charité de Spittlefields”, 1739-41
Author: Marmoy, Charles F. A.
England, Middlesex, Spitalfields – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessment for Christchurch (Spitalfields), 1743-1923
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)
Parish chest records for Spitalfields, 1627-1875
Author: Spitalfields (Middlesex)
Standard rate, 1700
Author: Spitalfields Old Town Parish (Middlesex)
Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Whitechapel
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Whitechapel
- Hundred: Ossulstone (Tower Division)
- Province: Canterbury