Graphical version

London Metropolitan Archives

CITY ROAD METHODIST CIRCUIT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/M/041

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CITY ROAD METHODIST CIRCUIT

Date(s): 1824-1957

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The New Chapel, or as it later became known, Wesley's Chapel, was opened for public worship on 1 November 1778. It stood as a successor to the old Foundery Chapel bought in 1739 which was situated a few hundred metres to the south east.

The Chapel is important as the "Mother Church of World Methodism", the scene of many famous events such as the Uniting Conference of Primitive Methodists, United Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists in 1932. It also acts as the focal point of the City Road Circuit, also known as London East Circuit (1807-1823) and the First London Circuit. There has been much reorganisation as chapels closed and circuits were altered; for further details and names and dates of circuits, contact the Society of Cirplanologists who collect Circuit plans.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Wesley's Chapel, City Road, 1824-1957.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

N/M/041/1: Wesley's Chapel, City Road.

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 1977 (AC/77/058 and AC/77/067).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

For the City Road Methodist Circuit, see N/M/015-018.

Publication note:

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
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church architecture | Architecture
Church societies | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Methodism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Methodists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Nonconformist chapels | Chapels | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Sunday schools | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Nonconformists
Nonconformity

Personal names

Corporate names
City Road Methodist Circuit x Wesley's Chapel Circuit
Wesley's Chapel | City Road

Places
City Road | Islington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe