IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0347 D124
Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service
Title: Upper Tooting Methodist Church
Date(s): 1868-1995
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 10 boxes
Name of creator(s): Please contact the Archive for further information.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Upper Tooting Methodist Church first began meeting in a temporary structure in Upper Tooting in February 1869, and the first permanent building on that site was opening in November 1879. The Church was destroyed by a flying bomb in July 1944 and subsequently re-built, opening again in February 1857.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection includes: minutes of leaders' meetings; minutes of Trustees meetings; accounts and financial papers for the church; information relating to the Sunday School; correspondence and estimates for re-building the church after it was destroyed by a bomb in 1944; membership registers; records of the Women's Fellowship.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As there was no pre-existing arrangement, the records have been arranged in series by type.
Conditions governing access:
This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information
Finding aids:
A hard-copy catalogue is available in the Heritage Service search-room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Deposited with Wandsworth Heritage Service in 2008 by the Church.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Please contact the Archive for further information
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002
Rules or conventions: 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: April 2011