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UXBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): ACC/0807

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: UXBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Date(s): 1603-1877

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Congregational Church of England and Wales

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A Presbyterian congregation was established in Uxbridge in 1753. By 1833 they had adopted Congregational Church practices and the name Uxbridge Old Meeting Congregational Church. They joined the London Congregational Union in 1922. A second Congregational body was established in Uxbridge in 1777, called the Providence Congregational Church. The two churches were united in 1962 as the Uxbridge Congregational Church, worshipping at the Old Meeting premises.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Uxbridge Congregational Church, including papers relating to the purchase and lease of land and property, 1603-1877; agreement to build 'a good and substantial Meeting House' for the use of the Society of Protestant Dissenters at Uxbridge, with detailed specifications, 1716; bargain and sale of land and the house and other buildings thereon for the use and occupation of the Protestant dissenting ministers of the congregation at Uxbridge, 1753; correspondence relating to the appointment of Reverend Robert Cramond as minister of the Presbyterian Dissenting Congregation at Uxbridge, 1768; map of premises in Uxbridge showing Uxbridge school, playground and meeting house, 1820s; legal papers relating to the lease of land near Uxbridge High Street, 1774 and valuation of house and grounds attached to the Presbyterian Meeting House, Uxbridge, 1820.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Property records, correspondence, plans.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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 1963 (ACC/0807).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Hillingdon Local Studies and Archives holds records for the Providence Congregational Church, Uxbridge, 1789-1961 (Ref: MC1/PRO).

Publication note:

Old Meeting Congregational Church, Uxbridge, 1662-1962 by Kenneth R Pearce, 1962.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Building leases | Legal documents | Law
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Clergy | Religious groups
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Nonconformist chapels | Chapels | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Presbyterianism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Presbyterians | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Documents
Nonconformists
Nonconformity
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Uxbridge Congregational Church x Uxbridge Old Meeting Congregational Church x Providence Congregational Church

Places
Uxbridge | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hillingdon