St George Hanover Square, Middlesex Genealogy

Parish History
St Hanover Square was considered to be, from the day of its establishment, one of the illustrious parishes in the realm. Well over a hundred thousand couples, young and old, flocked to its alters in order to be married in one of the most fashionable churches in all of Greater London. St George Hanover Square was created in 1725 out of St.Martin-in-the-Fields. There are transcribed records soon to be placed online at Ancestry.com--if not currently there.

Associated with this parish are numerous chapelries attached to it, some of which whose chapel registers are of ancient derivation predating those of St George's, which are given due consideration here, as follows:

Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street [1730] - Still open

St.George's Chapel, Albermarle Street. Proprietary Chapel [18??] Licensed for marriages 1899-1909.

Berkeley Chapel, John Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair. Proprietary Chapel - became: St.Mary, Bourdon Street. Chapel-of-Ease to St.Geo.Han.Sq.[1882] Closed 1939.

Christ Church, Down Street, Mayfair [1865]

Curzon Chapel, Curzon Street, Mayfair. Proprietary Chapel. Successor to the Mayfair Chapel, the marriage shop of the infamous Dr.Keith who defied church and state authority, with his asistants conducting 7,000-plus marriages c.1730 until activities were stopped by the Lord Hardwicke Marriage Act of 1753. Oddly enough, the registers were well-kept and went to the parish church (St.George's Hanover Square), and the Bishop's Transcripts to the diocesan registry. Gone by 1894.

Eaton Chapel, Eaton Terrace. Proprietary Chapel. [1836?] closed 1901??

Hanover Church, Regent Street [1823] became district church, then replaced by: St. Anselm, Davies Street, Berkeley Square. [Separate parish 1899?] - closed 1938, Parish united to Hanover Square and St.Mark, North Audley Street. Is now gone.

St Barnabas, Church Street, Pimlico [1850] Separate parish - Still open

St John's Chapel, Pimlico Road. Chapel-of-Ease to above.

St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico [1852] - Still open

All Saints, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico. Chapel-of-Ease to previous (1863) Closed 1967. Now gone?

St George, Albemarle Street, Proprietary Chapel. [1740?] Registers survive 1888-1909.

St.John, Belgrave Square. Proprietary Chapel. Possibly the same as: Belgrave Chapel Halkin Street [1898-1910].

St.Mark, North Audley Street [1828]. Parish united to St.George Hanover Square 1968. Church closed c.1980. leased to Commonwealth Church 1995.

St.Saviour's (for Deaf and Dumb) Chapel, Oxford Street

St. Michael, Chester Square [1846] - Still open

St.Philip, Buckingham Palace Road [1888]. Separate parish 1890. Closed 19?? [war damage??] United with previous 1953.

St Paul, Wilton Place [Knightsbridge] [1843] - Still open

St.Mary, Graham Street [now Bourne Street] [1909] Still open

St.Peter, Eaton Square [1827] - Still open

St.John the Evangelist, Wilton Road Chapel-of-Ease to above [1874?] Closed 1942?

St.Peter, Buckingham Gate/Palace Street Chapel-of-Ease to above [1822?] closed 1921?

St.Saviour, St George's Square, Pimlico. [1864] still open.

Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street [1691]chapel of ease, closed 1875.

Taken from Genuki.org.uk at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/Westminster/churches.htm