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LAVENDER HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): ACC/2998

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LAVENDER HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Date(s): 1881-1976

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.68 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Congregational Church of England and Wales

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The site in Stormont Road was purchased in 1877 by the London Congregational Union. A lecture hall and school premises were erected in 1878. The hall was used for public worship from 1879. A formal meeting was held in November 1881 for the formation of a Christian church. The Revd Richard Bulmer was elected pastor. The church that was built following that meeting was demolished in 1969 and replaced by a more 'modern' structure.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Lavender Hill Congregational Church, Stormont Road, near Clapham and Battersea, 1881-1976, including Church Meeting minutes; Deacons' (later Elders') Meeting minutes; Stormont Brotherhood minutes; membership rolls; journal of daily events; The Stormont Magazine and photographs of church buildings, church members and so on.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections according to catalogue.

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:

Acc/2998

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

For registers of marriages of Lavender Hill Congregational Church, see LMA/4132.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Nonconformity
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Lavender Hill Congregational Church

Places
Battersea | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Clapham | Lambeth | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Wandsworth