IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LMA/4008/KCCS
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: KING'S CROSS MISSION, CHARLOTTE STREET/ CARNEGIE STREET
Date(s): 1876-1955
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 0.16 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:
King's Cross Methodist Mission, Charlotte Street was also known as Charlotte Street Methodist Church. It was built by the Wesleyan Methodist Association in 1841. Charlotte Street was re-named Carnegie Street in 1938. The Church was destroyed by a land mine in 1941 but the congregation continued to meet at Liberal Hall, 314 Caledonian Road. The church was transferred from the Hackney Circuit to the Tottenham Circuit, then to the Caledonian Road Circuit and finally the London Central Mission Circuit in 1956. The Church was dissolved in 1960 and the members transferred to King's Cross Central Mission.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
King's Cross Methodist Mission, Charlotte Street (later Carnegie Street), including registers of baptisms, 1896-1932; Church Meeting minutes and Leader's Meeting minutes; financial accounts; Trustees' minutes, papers and correspondence; newspaper cuttings and a guide to the Caledonian Road Circuit, 1953.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In sections: Registers and Membership; Church Administration; Trustees and Buildings; Printed Items.
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 1983 (Acc/1849)
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also: N/M/43/49/1,2.
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