IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LMA/4051
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: NON-CONFORMIST SERMONS
Date(s): 1848-1858
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.1 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Cook | Jonathan
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The volumes seem to have belonged to Olive Cook, whose name is inscribed on the fly-leaf of each book. Each sermon is signed Jonathan Cook suggesting that he may have prepared the transcriptions.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript transcriptions of Noncomformist sermons given on a variety of Biblical texts, 1848-1858. The sermons were given by different preachers at various chapels including Surrey Chapel; Little Prescot Street Chapel; Hoxton Academy Chapel; New Baptist Chapel, Upper Street, Islington; Poultry Chapel; Weighouse Chapel; Barbican Chapel; London Road Chapel, Brighton; Sion Chapel; City Road Chapel; Holloway Chapel; Bingley, Yorkshire; Abingdon Baptist Chapel; Trinity Chapel, Brixton; Norwood and Margate. The time of day (morning or evening), date, chapel and name of preacher is provided for each sermon and the volumes have both been indexed by the texts being preached on. The first volume is also indexed by preacher.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
2 volumes.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London
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:
These two volumes of non conformist sermons were gifted to The London Metropolitan Archives by Unilever.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1998 (B98/143).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009