Contact us

Contact details

  • Call: 0207 704 1895

    Email: bookings@stmaryislington.org

    Call or email Monday to Friday

    9.00am -4.00pm

  • Call: 0207 704 2873

    Email: Childrensbookings@stmaryislington.org

    Call or email Monday to Friday

    9.00am -4.00pm

  • We have three churchwardens: Edward Adegbola, Ronnie Coulson and Rebecca Shilling. If you would like to get in touch with them please contact:

    E: churchwardens@stmaryislington.org

  • Nick Sykes is Lay Chair of St Mary Islington PCC.

    Julia Abrey is the PCC secretary.

    Both can be contacted via the church office.

  • David Vanden Bon is Treasurer of St Mary Islington PCC.

    E: treasurer@stmaryislington.org

  • If you have any pastoral concern or would like to speak to a minister please contact the clergy team via St Mary’s Church Office
    T: 020 7226 3400

    E: imogen.erskine@stmaryislington.org

  • Please head over to our Life Events page for more information and contact details

Getting to St Mary’s

 
  • We’re on Upper Street. Ten minutes walk north of Angel Station (Northern Line) and fifteen minutes walk south of Highbury & Islington Station (Victoria, Overground and National Rail lines).

  • There is a bus stops right outside our door on Upper Street. It is served by routes 4, 19, 30 and 43.

    Bus stops on Essex Road are five minutes walk from St Mary’s and are served by routes 38, 56, 73, 341 and 476.

  • Parking at St Mary's is very limited and by permit only. The site is patrolled and you will incur a parking charge if you park without a valid permit.

    If you have limited mobility and would like to request a parking permit please contact us.

    Please note that disabled blue badge parking permits are not valid on our site.

Navigating our buildings

We have multiple buildings on our site. If you’re heading to a specific venue, please have a look at our map for the correct entrance.

Family history enquiries

All Church of England churches hold registers that are wonderful sources of information for people researching their family tree. We regularly receive enquiries from people researching their genealogy.

However, we only hold the most recent information:

  • For baptisms at St Mary's Church - from August 1928

  • For marriages at St Mary's Church - from September 1977

  • For worship services at St Mary's Church - from approximately 1996

  • For burials of cremated remains - from 2011

  • The churchyard at St Mary's was closed for burials in the nineteenth century and a new cemetery opened for Islington at East Finchley. John Nelson’s History of Islington (1811) lists the monuments for burials in the churchyard of St Mary, beginning on page 328. Follow the link to view the book in Google eBooks.

    You may also like to see Islington Cemeteries for information on genealogy and searches.

    If you wish us to search the registers we hold here, please email the Church Office.

    There is a fee for this service (£32 per hour or part hour, in 2022).

    For registers before these dates, you'll need to enquire for the St Mary Islington registers held at the London Metropolitan Archives. See the full catalogue of archives held at LMA for St Mary Islington which has reference code: P83/MRY1.

    Certified copies of entries in registers for marriages, births and deaths that were registered in Islington in the last 100 years can be ordered from the Islington Council website.