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HORBURY CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, NOTTING HILL GATE, KENSINGTON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/C/12

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HORBURY CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, NOTTING HILL GATE, KENSINGTON

Date(s): 1850-1920

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Horbury Congregational Chapel was constructed in 1848-1849 to designs by architect J Tarring, situated on the junction of Ladbroke Road and Kensington Park Road. The Chapel was an offshoot of the Congregational Church on Hornton Street. The Chapel closed in 1935 and was renamed Kensington Temple, owned first by the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and then by the Elim Pentecostal Church.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Horbury Congregational Chapel, Kensington Park Road, including correspondence relating to expenses of erection of chapel and general finances, 1850-1869; correspondence relating to a dispute between Reverend F.W. Pitt and the congregation, with subsequent intervention of the London Congregational Union, 1909-1914; further correspondence and notes relating to the dispute including a subsidiary quarrel and case between Reverend F.W. Pitt and Reverend H.A. Powell, 1915-1920; copies of 'The Bible Crusade/Quarterly Message', 1917-1919 and engraving of architect's drawing of chapel, 1860?

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Correspondence; Printed Items.

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:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

ALLIED MATERIALS

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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
Architectural drawings | Drawings | Visual materials
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
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Illustrations
Nonconformity
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Horbury Congregational Chapel | Notting Hill Gate

Places
Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Notting Hill Gate | Kensington and Chelsea | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe