| Description | Registers: Baptisms 1628-1984, Marriages 1630-1975, Burials 1628-1854. Register of funerals 1919-1963; registers of services 1887-1892, 1938-1970; marriage licences 1795-1912; church buildings and churchyard 1693-1964; Church Rate assessment 1738; church accounts 1536-1957; Vestry minutes 1730-1840; Parochial Church Council and other minutes 1895-2016; Parochial accounts 1905-1918; Charities 1605-1945; Tithe Awards and miscellaneous statutory deposits 1842-1931; Poor Rate assessments 1709-1779,1884; settlement papers 1710,1829-1858; Overseers' book 1700-1790; Overseers' miscellaneous papers 1744-1850; Poor Law Commissioners' printed orders, instructions etc. 1842-1851; notices of transfer of alehouse licences 1847-1852; parish magazines 1924-2003; Lache cum Saltney parish: new parish and boundaries 1855,1923; Upton parish: patronage and boundaries 1882 |
| Administrative History | St. Mary-on-the-Hill was an ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Claverton, Little Mollington, Marlston cum Lache, Moston [nr. Chester], part of Upton by Chester, and part of the City of Chester. In 1855 and 1882 areas were transferred to the parishes of Lache cum Saltney and Upton Holy Ascension respectively.
In 1887 the parish of St. Mary of the Hill was abolished, and its area became parts of the Chester parishes of St. Mary Without-the-Walls, St. Olave and St. Bridget. When the latter building closed in 1891, services were held at St. Mary on the Hill instead until it too closed in 1972, becoming part of unified parish for the city of Chester the following year.
The church of St. Mary-without-the-Walls opened in 1887 to serve the Handbridge area of the city of Chester, and part of Marlston cum Lache (formerly in the Chester parishes of St. Mary on the Hill and St. Bridget). For later records see also the parish of Lache cum Saltney. |