Talk:Church of St Peter ad Vincula

Name change

I'd like to suggest a name change to "St. Peter ad Vincula, London" - the brackets / parentheses were used some years back in WP to indicate location, but is more often found as a comma nowadays. Comments, please. Ian Cairns (talk) 14:13, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't see how making this change will help anyone. Let's concentrate our resources on making changes to the encyclopedia that are high-value. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:52, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Parish of the Tower of London

Someone added the following:

St Peter ad Vincula was the church of the extra-parochial area of Tower Within, part of the Liberties of the Tower of London. It was added to the Bills of mortality in 1729, but was excluded in 1730 because of a successful claim of being extra-parochial. In 1858 it became a civil parish following the Extra-Parochial Places Act 1857. The Tower of London liberty was dissolved in 1894 and the parish was absorbed by St Botolph without Aldgate in 1901.

Hi. I have moved this information to the talk page so that we can discuss and develop it. The biggest problem, of course, is that no references to sources are shown to verify this information. Please see WP:V and WP:CITE for more information. Also, the text is very confusing and needs to be clarified and simplified so that an ordinary reader will be able to understand it. Let me know if I can help in any way, but we cannot add this to the article until there are citations in it to sources that state the information contained here. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:39, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

As a nominal Anglican I think I see – through a glass darkly – what is meant here. Some churches are not under the jurisdiction of the local bishop - e.g. Westminster Abbey and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, which come under the Sovereign's supervision. I imagine this may be some variant of that sort of thing, but we certainly need references; a few words of explanation in the text would be useful too. Blue links are fine, but readers should be able to get the broad sense of a paragraph from the paragraph itself. – Tim riley (talk) 08:52, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Got distracted whilst writing this and didn't get down to referencing. I've put that in now. Also amended text with regards to the comments above. MRSC (talk) 12:22, 28 January 2014 (UTC)