IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0516
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT PAUL'S, MILL HILL: THE RIDGEWAY, BARNET
Date(s): 1767-1856
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Church of England: St Paul's Church, Mill Hill
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Mill Hill did not always have an Anglican church. Until the 1820s parishioners had to go to St Mary's Hendon to worship, some miles away, but in the 1820s it was clear that the district would require a chapel of ease. Local resident William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner, became the central benefactor in 1827. Saint Paul's was completed in 1830, and consecrated in 1833. It became a parish church in 1926.
Fysh Coppinger was a London merchant who married into the de Burgh family of West Drayton and took the surname of Burgh.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Mill Hill Chapel, Hendon, including article of agreement stating that Zachariah and James Bowden and William Wilberforce of Highwood Hill, Hendon agree to build chapel at Mill Hill, Hendon, 1829; declarations regarding the quality of the brickwork used in the chapel, 1830; statements of account, 1833; receipts and correspondence relating to the construction of the chapel, 1829-1831; statement of expenditure by William Wilberforce for the erection of stables and coach-house at the Three Crowns, Highwood Hill, Hendon, 1828; assignments of annuity relating to Fysh Coppinger, London merchant, 1767; petition of Sir John Gibbons and others to the Court of Chancery concerning deeds, books and papers relating to Stanwell Free School, 1820 and letters patent granted to Alexander Tolhausen of Adelphi, London, for a "Machine for Cutting Articles of Polygonal figure in wood or other material", 1856.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In 4 sections: ACC/0516/001-011: Papers relating to the chapel; ACC/0516/012-013: Hendon papers, ACC/0516/014-016: Fysh Coppinger papers, and ACC/0516/017-019: Miscellanea.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Material received in 1954.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: March to April 2010.