IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LMA/4331
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: MUSWELL HILL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, TETHERDOWN
Date(s): 1898-1973
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.66 linear meters
Name of creator(s): Presbyterian Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Muswell Hill Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Prince's Avenue and the Broadway, was registered in 1899 and completed in 1903. The church was built of flint and terracotta, to the designs of G. Baines, with late Gothic and art nouveau features, including a corner tower surmounted by a copper spirelet. Its materials and style later won widespread attention and led to a campaign for its preservation after the Presbyterians joined the Congregationalists in 1973. The building, seating around 600, was unused in 1976.
From: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980), pp. 183-189.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Muswell Hill Presbyterian Church including Church meeting minute book, 1972-1973; Court of Session minute books, 1949-1973; Deacon's Court minute books, 1898-1972; Managers' minute book, Red Lion Hill Mission (includes correspondence), 1916-1924; Missionary Committee minute book, 1919-1948; Church year books, 1949-1951; and register of baptisms, 1899-1973.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records relating to meetings LMA/4331/A, and registers LMA/4331/B.
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 by the United Reformed Church (URC) History Society in 2001 (B01/024).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See LMA/4156 for marriage registers.
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