IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): ACC/3393
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HARROW METHODIST CIRCUIT
Date(s): 1896-1999
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 9.01 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:
Harrow Methodist Circuit is now Harrow and Hillingdon Methodist Circuit of 17 churches, covering the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Harrow and stretching from West Drayton and Hayes in the South to Kenton and Wealdstone in the North. A Methodist circuit is normally a group of churches in a local area served by a team of ministers. A minister will have pastoral charge of one or more churches, but will preach and lead worship in different local churches in the circuit, along with local preachers. The arrangements for leading worship in a circuit are drawn up in a quarterly Plan.
For histories of the individual churches in ACC/3393 please see the sub-fonds record for each church (ACC/3393/BR, ACC/3393/CA and so on).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Harrow Methodist Circuit and churches in the circuit, 1896-1999: Harrow Church, Bessborough Road; Pinner Church, Cannon Lane; Eastcote Church; Harrow Weald Church; Ruislip Church, Ickenham Road; Kenton Church; North Harrow Church; Northwood Church, Oaklands Gate; Ruislip Common Church; Ruislip Manor Church; South Harrow Church; South Ruislip Church; Harrow Church, Welldon Crescent and Wealdstone Church.
The majority of these records were accumulated by the circuit archivist of the Harrow Methodist Circuit, and include minutes of meetings of Church Trustees, Church Leaders and various Church societies and groups, registers of baptisms, papers relating to construction of new buildings, correspondence, newsletters and magazines, orders of service, leaflets, programmes, circulars and newspaper cuttings, financial accounts, membership rolls, annual reports and photographs.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In sections: ACC/3393/BR: Harrow Church, Bessborough Road; ACC/3393/CA: Pinner Church, Cannon Lane; ACC/3393/CR: Circuit Records; ACC/3393/EA: Eastcote Church; ACC/3393/HW: Harrow Weald Church; ACC/3393/IR: Ruislip Church, Ickenham Road; ACC/3393/KE: Kenton Church; ACC/3393/NH: North Harrow Church; ACC/3393/NW: Northwood Church, Oaklands Gate; ACC/3393/RC: Ruislip Common Church; ACC/3393/RM: Ruislip Manor Church; ACC/3393/SH: South Harrow Church; ACC/3393/SR: South Ruislip Church; ACC/3393/WC: Harrow Church, Welldon Crescent and ACC/3393/WE: Wealdstone Church.
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:
Received in 1991 with an additional accession in 2001 (ACC/3801, ACC/3393, B01/058).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
London Metropolitan Archives has other holdings relating to some of the churches within the Harrow Circuit, as follows:
Harrow Methodist Chapel ACC/1391/1-87
Bessborough Road, Harrow Church ACC/1388/27-34
Welldon Crescent, Harrow Church ACC/1388/35-38
Hallowwell Road, Northwood Church ACC/1388/80-82
Harefield Methodist Church ACC/2567/1-20
Harefield Methodist Church ACC/2270/1-2
Ruislip Common Church ACC/3430/1.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009