London Metropolitan Archives

ARCHWAY ROAD CHURCH

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): LMA/4009/AR

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ARCHWAY ROAD CHURCH

Date(s): 1865-1932

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 0.66 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:

It would appear that from 1859 Wesleyans were meeting for worship at a coffee house and dining rooms in Whittington Terrace, Upper Holloway. The society acquired its own premises when in 1864 a site was purchased in St John's Road and an iron building erected upon it. This was the site later occupied by the Archway Central Hall. In 1873 a far more substantial chapel was opened on the adjacent site - on the junction of five roads opposite the Archway Tavern, since Victorian times one of the busiest traffic centres in North London. Up to that point still part of the Islington (Liverpool Road) Circuit, Archway Road Chapel became the head of the newly formed Highgate Circuit (1873), which reached out to the new suburbs rapidly growing up on the Northern Heights.

Archway was one of no less than 85 Wesleyan chapels built in 1872. In 1932 it was decided to replace the crumbling, out of date building with a large Central Hall, to be set back from the busy and noisy Great North Road. It was to be the first central hall scheme initiated after Methodist Union and the last Central Hall built in London.

Source: http://www.londonmethodist.org.uk/index.html

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Archway Road Methodist Church, including register of baptisms, 1865-1897; Leaders' Meeting minute books; financial accounts; Trustees' Meeting minute books; Trustees' correspondence and notes; papers of the Missionary Society and papers of the Sunday School.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections: Registers; Administration; Trustees; Groups and Organisations.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1983 (Acc/1849)

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