FERME PARK BAPTIST CHURCH

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: ACC/1361
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: FERME PARK BAPTIST CHURCH
Date(s)	: 1873-1973
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 3.42 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Baptist Union of Great Britain x General Baptists x Particular Baptists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The first known Baptist Church in Crouch End was formed in 1807 and met in what was called the Broadway Hall, once part of the outbuildings of Old Crouch Hall. It continued until 1837. From 1879-1889 a second Baptist congregation met in the Broadway Hall, until the increasing urbanisation of the area, bringing an increased population, led to the erection of a more permanent chapel and the formation of the Ferme Park Baptist Church in 1889, located on the corner of Ferme Park Road and Weston Park. Ever growing congregations resulted in a new chapel being built adjacent to the old, between 1897-1900. The Baptist Chapel merged with the United Reformed Church in 1973 and opened on the same site as the Union Church in 1980.

Once established, the church membership met as a whole at the Church Meeting and the leaders of the church met as the Deacons' Meetings. An unbroken series of minute books for both meetings survive.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Ferme Park Baptist Church, Crouch End, including copies of trust deeds, 1873-1933; minutes and papers of Chapel building committee and other committees, 1883-1900; Deacons' Meeting minutes, 1889-1970; Deacons' General Purposes Committee, 1920-1926; Church Meeting minutes, 1889-1969; Church Meeting membership records, 1889-1898; Church Meeting finance, 1924-1972; Sunday School minutes and papers, 1897-1955; Young People's Christian Union minutes and papers, 1911-1934; Social Guild minutes and papers, 1929-1959; Visiting Committee minutes, 1940-1964; Year Books, 1892-1964; magazines and Church newsletters, 1898-1973; pamphlets, press cuttings, service sheets and programmes, 1888-1946 and photographs and slides, 1890s-1973.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

In sections according to catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: Depositor

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1976.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also: ACC/1412, ACC/1466 and ACC/2732.

See Haringey Archive Service for marriage registers, 1950-1976 (ref: ldbcm:a/7/6).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's 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