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TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARYLAND POINT, STRATFORD


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): LMA/4326

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MARYLAND POINT, STRATFORD

Date(s): 1884-1942

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear meters

Name of creator(s): Presbyterian Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Trinity Presbyterian Church, Leytonstone Road, Maryland Point, was founded in 1863 by Andrew Black, of the United Presbyterian Church, who became the first minister (1863-1875). A hall was built in 1864 and the church itself in 1870. It was a brick and stone building in the Gothic style, with a spired angle tower. After early difficulties Trinity flourished under Alexander Jeffrey (1888-1906), the building debt being cleared and communicants numbering over 400, including many seamen. The leading layman at this period was an engine-driver, Alexander Keir. From 1906 the church was declining, and in 1941 it was closed, the members joining East Avenue church, Manor Park, which then took the name Trinity. The Leytonstone Road building, later used as a factory, was destroyed by fire in 1953. The church hall still survived, as a factory, in 1966.

From: A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 123-141.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Stratford, including Court of Session minute book, 1936-1940; Deacons' Court minute book, 1938-1942 and Church magazines, 1884-1906, including records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, as the original records were destroyed by enemy action in 1941.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Administrative records: LMA/4326/A.

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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Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the United Reformed Church (URC) History Society in 2001 (B01/024).

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
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Presbyterianism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Presbyterians | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Nonconformists
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Trinity Presbyterian Church | Leytonstone Road, Maryland Point, Stratford

Places
Stratford | Essex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London
Newham