Hendon St Mary, Middlesex Family History Guide
Hendon St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Middlesex.
Other places in the parish include: Golder’s Green.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630; 1800
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Hendon St Mary Ancient Parish: Parish church: St Mary. Ecclesiastical boundaries were altered in 1833 to create Mill Hill St Paul (also known as Hendon St Paul, Mill Hill) Ecclesiastical Parish, and in 1857 to create Hendon All Saints Child’s Hill Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1876 to create Hendon St Barnabas Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1896 to create West Hendon Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1911 to create Hampstead Garden Suburb Ecclesiastical Parish, in 1914 to create Golder’s Green St Michael Ecclesiastical Parish, and in 1923 to create Hendon Christ Church Ecclesiastical Parish and Temple Fortune Ecclesiastical Parish.
Parishes created from Hendon St Mary Ancient Parish:
Hendon All Saints, Childs Hill Ecclesiastical Parish: Created in 1857 from Hendon St Mary Ancient Parish. Ecclesiastical boundary altered in 1892 to create Cricklewood St Peter Ecclesiastical Parish, and in 1922 to create Golders Green St Alban Ecclesiastical Parish.
Hendon St Barnabas Ecclesiastical Parish: Created in 1876 from Hendon St Mary Ancient Parish.
West Hendon Ecclesiastical Parish: Created in 1896 from Hendon St Mary Ancient Parish. Ecclesiastical boundary changed in 1924 to create Hendon St Alphage, and in 1951 to create Colindale Ecclesiastical Parish.
Hendon Christ Church Ecclesiastical Parish: Created in 1923 from Hendon St Mary Ancient Parish.
Hendon St Alphage Ecclesiastical Parish: Created in 1924 from West Hendon Ecclesiastical Parish and Mill Hill St Paul Ecclesiastical Parish. Ecclesiastical boundary altered in 1937 to create Mill Hill John Keble Church Ecclesiastical Parish, and in 1951 to create Colindale Ecclesiastical Parish.
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
HENDON (St. Mary), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Gore, county of Middlesex, 7 miles (N. W.) from London; containing 3327 inhabitants. This place was in the tenth century given by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the abbots of Westminster, who had a palace here, the remains of which have been converted into a private mansion.
The village is pleasantly situated on an eminence, in a small vale watered by the river Brent, over which is an ancient bridge of stone; the houses are irregularly built. The parish contains numerous villas, and abounds with rural walks and agreeable scenery. On Highwood Hill is a mansion in which Lord William Russell resided previously to his arrest, now occupied by Lady Raffles; and near it is a mineral spring impregnated with cathartic salt.
Hendon Place, the seat of Lord Tenterden, and once a banqueting-house belonging to Queen Elizabeth, is a handsome mansion, consisting of a centre and two wings, with a magnificent ball-room attached by a light arcade; the grounds have a fine undulated surface, and are enriched with some noble timber: a remarkably beautiful cedar here is said to have been planted by Elizabeth.
A court leet for the manor is held on the Tuesday before Whitsuntide, and a court baron occasionally. The parishioners are exempt from all tolls throughout England, an immunity of which the farmers avail themselves in sending hay to Smithfield.
The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15, and in the patronage of J. Masterman, Esq., with a net income of £1280; impropriators, J. Fletcher, Esq., and others. The great tithes have been commuted for £1771. 7. 7., and the vicarial for £848. 10.; there are 4½ acres of glebe.
The church is a spacious structure in the decorated English style, with some small Norman remains, and a square embattled tower: the altar-piece is finely sculptured, and the east window embellished with a well-executed painting of the Last Supper, and other subjects; there are several ancient monuments, and a Norman font. In the churchyard is a mausoleum to the late Mr. Rundell, the goldsmith, of Ludgate-hill.
A church was erected at Mill-Hill, in the later English style, chiefly at the expense of the late William Wilberforce, Esq.; it is dedicated to St. Paul, and the living is in the gift of the Vicar. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans.
A schoolroom for boys was erected by John Bennet, Esq., on a piece of land given by Garrick, the actor, then lord of the manor. Robert Daniels, Esq., of London, in 1681 bequeathed £2000 for the erection and endowment of an almshouse for ten aged men and women, with which sum 132 acres of land were purchased; and six almshouses were erected in 1696, by Thomas Nichol, who endowed them for aged persons. At Mill-Hill is the Protestant Dissenters’ grammar school, founded in 1807, on the site of the residence of Peter Collinson, Esq., an eminent naturalist, at an expense of £25,000.
The poor-law union of Hendon comprises eight parishes or places, and contains 15,444 inhabitants. At a place called the Hyde, in the parish, a gold coin of one of the Cæsars was found a few years since. William Rawlinson, Esq., a master in chancery, and keeper of the seals; Dr. Edward Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester; Charles Johnson, a dramatic author; Dr. James Parsons, anatomist and antiquary; Sir Joseph Ayloff, vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries; and other eminent persons, have been interred here.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Hendon
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Hendon
- Hundred: Gore
- Province: Canterbury