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BECKENHAM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/C/63

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BECKENHAM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Date(s): 1877-1978

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.28 linear metres

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Beckenham Congregational Church was founded in 1878. It was situated on Crescent Road. In 1903 it was part of the Kent Association and County Missionary Society Metropolitan District, and had 206 members. In 1972, when the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches merged, it became Beckenham United Reformed Church.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Church Books containing various entries including history of chapel, minutes of Church Meetings, roll of members, marriages and baptisms, 1878-1934; membership rolls, 1902-1949; Deacon's Meeting minute books, 1878-1952; minutes of the Building Committee, 1884-1889; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1896-1916; Church Meeting minutes, 1934-1954; Missionary Committee minutes, 1911-1965; general correspondence, 1902-1912; financial accounts, 1877-1914; annual reports, 1879-1910; printed items including notices, hymn sheets, appeals, handbills, programmes, brochures and histories, 1877-1998; newspaper cuttings, 1906-1928; The Outlook monthly magazine, 1930-1954; papers regarding the Church centenary, 1978 and photographs of ministers, staff and the interior and exterior of the Church, 1877-1930.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Registers; Minutes; Administrative papers; Printed items; Photographs.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998

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:

Deposited 1968 (AC/68/067).

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

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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
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Nonconformist chapels | Chapels | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Legal documents
Nonconformity

Personal names

Corporate names
Beckenham Congregational Church x Beckenham United Reformed Church

Places
Beckenham | Bromley | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe