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HARLEY STREET CHAPEL, BOW, POPLAR


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/C/14

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HARLEY STREET CHAPEL, BOW, POPLAR

Date(s): 1885-1922

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.51 linear metres

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Harley Street Congregational Chapel, Bow, was founded in 1836. In 1903 it had 363 members and 450 students in the Sunday School. The chapel was closed in 1927 and converted into the Mile End and Bow Great Synagogue.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Harley Street Congregational Chapel, Bow, including register of baptisms, 1885-1926 and marriages, 1881-1925; registers of attendance, 1878-1926; minutes of Church meetings, 1876-1890 and 1906-1922; minute book of 'Church Committee' otherwise 'Vestry meetings', 1908-1915.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Registers; Minutes

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:

Deposited 20 August 1964 (AC/64/48).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

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
Harley Street Congregational Chapel | Bow

Places
Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Bow | Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe