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LONDON CONGREGATIONAL UNION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/LCU

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONDON CONGREGATIONAL UNION

Date(s): 1628-1910

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 7.23 linear metres

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The London Congregational Union, part of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, was founded in 1873. It was divided into 10 districts:

1 - Central London

2 - West London

3 - North West London

4 - North London

5 - North East London

6 - East London

7 - Metropolitan Essex

8 - Metropolitan Kent

9 - Metropolitan Surrey (East)

10 - Metropolitan Surrey (West).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Administrative records of the London Congregational Union, 1851-1966, including membership registers, minute books, papers regarding properties of which the London Congregational Union is trustee, annual reports, magazines and booklets, correspondence with individual churches in the London Union and on subjects such as missions, chaplains, finance, fundraising and church groups.

Also records of the London Congregational Chapel Building Society (later Chapel Building Section of London Congregational Union), 1848-1942, including minutes, financial accounts and reports.

Records of the North District of the London Congregational Union, 1938-1959, including minutes and constitution.

Records of the London Board of Congregational Ministers, 1928-1951, including membership registers, subscriptions and financial accounts.

Records of Nathaniel Bromley's Charity, 1628-1939, including financial accounts, deeds, leases, mortgages, conveyances and sale documents.

Deed for the Congregational Memorial Hall, 1872.

Book recording grants given from Williamson's Trust 'to help poor Dissenting Ministers', 1883-1896.

Map from the Hornsey and Highgate Council of Evangelical Free Churches showing Free Church parishes in Hornsey and Highgate, 1910?

Memoirs of Reverend Richard J Evans, Secretary of the London Congregational Union, 1907-1941 and Moderator, 1935-1941.

Minute book of the Hornsey And Islington District of the London Congregational Union, 1960-1972.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

N/LCU/1: Administrative Records Of The London Congregational Union; N/LCU/2: London Congregational Chapel Building Society (Later Chapel Building Section Of London Congregational Union); N/LCU/3: North District Of London Congregational Union; N/LCU/4: London Board Of Congregational Ministers; N/LCU/5: Nathaniel Bromley's Charity; N/LCU/6: Congregational Memorial Hall; N/LCU/7: Associate Fund; N/LCU/8: Hornsey And Highgate Council Of Evangelical Free Churches; N/LCU/9: Papers Of Rev. Richard J Evans; N/LCU/10: Hornsey And Islington District Of The LCU.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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 multiple accessions: 20 August 1964 (AC/64/048), 18 March 1965 (AC/65/024), 27 May 1965 (AC/65/047), and 30 January 1973 (AC/73/04) and 1998 (B98/084).

ALLIED MATERIALS

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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
Church property | Property
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Membership | Group behaviour | Social behaviour
Nonconformist chapels | Chapels | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Nonconformity
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Hornsey and Highgate Council of Evangelical Free Churches
London Board of Congregational Ministers
London Congregational Chapel Building Society x Chapel Building Section of London Congregational Union
London Congregational Union | Congregational Union of England and Wales

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe