Belvedere and Abbey Wood, Kent
Historical Description
Belvedere (or Lessness Heath) and Abbey Wood, an ecclesiastical parish in Kent, with a station on the North Kent section of the S.E.R., 12 miles from London, and 1 mile from Erith. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Population, 4789. All Saints Church is a cut flint building in the Early English style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £400 with residence. There are Congregational, Methodist, and Baptist chapels. The Public Hall is a brick building erected in 1871. The Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Institution is in the neighbourhood.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1861.
Findmypast have the following online for Belvedere, All Saints: baptisms 1861-1900, marriages 1862-1900
Churches
Church of England
All Saints, Erith Road (parish church)
All Saints' church, Erith road, is of cut flints with stone dressings, in the Early English style, and has a western tower with spire containing a clock and one bell: there are four stained windows: the church will seat 600 persons.
St. Augustine
St. Augustine's iron church, in St. Augustine's Road, has an organ formerly in Lambeth Palace chapel: there are 300 sittings.
St. Mary
St. Mary's iron mission church, at Abbey Wood, was erected in 1888 at a cost of £180, and will seat 200 persons.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.