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LIME STREET INDEPENDENT MEETING HOUSE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/192

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LIME STREET INDEPENDENT MEETING HOUSE

Date(s): 1692-1764

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Lime Street Independent Meeting House

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The meeting house was erected in Lime Street in 1672 and remained on the site until 1755 when the premises were purchased, and the community compelled to leave. The congregation divided into two branches, the main group going to Miles Lane, and the other to Artillery Lane.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Lime Street Independent Meeting House, comprising a church book including lists of members, minutes of meetings, and copies of letters.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This volume was given to Guildhall Library in 1899 by a private individual. It was catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

For an outline history of the chapel, see Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches...in London..., London 1808, vol.i, pp.212-250.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Lime Street Independent Meeting House

Places
Lime Street | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe