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GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/M/007

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS

Date(s): 1639-1944

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3.06 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:

The Great Queen Street Chapel was founded in 1706 as a dissenting chapel constructed in the garden of a home on Lincoln's Inn Fields. In 1758 the chapel was purchased by the Reverend Thomas Francklyn and became a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. The chapel was rebuilt in 1817 when land was bought in neighbouring gardens in order to construct a larger building with galleries.

The chapel was the centre of the Great Queen Street Circuit which was formed in the 1820s and stretched as far as Finchley and Barnet. In 1906 the Methodist Conference gave the Chapel to the West London Mission. The building was later condemned by the London County Council and the Mission was temporarily housed in the Lyceum Theatre, while on Great Queen Street at the old site a new place of worship, Kingsway Hall, was under construction. Kingsway Hall opened in 1912.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Register of baptisms and burials, 1812-1856; register of baptisms, 1837-1909; register of marriages, 1843-1930; register of burials, 1839-1848; deeds, leases and conveyances for land and property owned by the Chapel, 1639-1877; contracts and agreements, 1908-1913; trusteeship records for Great Queen Street Chapel and Kingsway Hall, 1835-1944; Trustees minutes, 1798-1905; report of the Trustees to the Special Circuit Meeting, 1843; 2nd London Circuit Day School Committee minutes, 1836-1870; financial records, 1807-1925; Trustees report books, 1738-1907; Trustees vouchers, 1812-1894; papers of the Society to Visit and Relieve the Sick and Distressed Poor at their own Habitations, 1800-1876; papers relating to Great Queen Street Schools, particularly the rebuilding of the schools, 1827-1874 and financial accounts of Great Queen Street Schools, 1836-1902.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Minutes, registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, deeds and financial records.

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:

Deposited in 1971 (AC/71/024).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

SEE ALSO ACC 2330/96

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
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church property | Property
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Church societies | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Methodism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Methodists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Missions | Missionary work | Religious activities
Nonconformist chapels | Chapels | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Sunday schools | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Burial records
Legal documents
Nonconformists
Nonconformity
Religion
Social work

Personal names

Corporate names
Great Queen Street Methodist Chapel

Places
Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Holborn | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Lincoln's Inn Fields | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe