IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): ACC/2642
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: KINGSTON ROAD METHODIST CHAPEL, STAINES
Date(s): 1900-1986
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.3 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Wesley visited Staines in 1771 and preached in a house which had just been fitted up for the purpose. He recorded an enthusiastic reception and according to the Anglican authorities the number of Methodists increased between 1778 and 1810. There does not seem to have been a proper chapel before about 1845, but the Wesleyan minister from Windsor registered a dwelling-house in Staines for religious worship in 1825. By 1865, and probably twenty years before, the Wesleyan chapel stood on the site of the present Salvation Army fortress in the Kingston Road. This chapel was replaced in 1890 by the present building in the Gothic style on the other side of the road. It is built in red brick with stone dressings and has a south-west spire. In 1957 the church had about 160 members.
From: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (1962), pp. 30-31.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Kingston Road Methodist Chapel, Staines, comprising registers of marriages, 1900-1986.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
6 volumes.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: Depositor
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred by the General Register Office, Segensworth Road, Titchfield, Fareham, Hants PO15 5RR on 16 December 1988 (ACC/2642).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The church was part of the Staines and Feltham Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (see ACC/2111 and ACC/2708 for Circuit and constituent Church records).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009