IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/197
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: NON-ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS: SMALL COLLECTIONS
Date(s): 1691-1912
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 20 production units.
Name of creator(s): French Protestant Church at St Martin Orgar
Freethinking Christians
Dutch Church, Colchester
Dutch Church, Norwich
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This church of French protestants was established in ca. 1686 and was based at a number of addresses in the City of London, including Jewin Street and in Buckingham House on College Hill, before taking the lease of St Martin Orgar in 1699. This church, in St Martin's Lane, had been destroyed in the Fire of London and had not been rebuilt. The lease was surrendered and the church closed in 1834.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Collection of records relating to non-established religion in London, including papers of the Freethinking Christians, the Dutch churches in Colchester and Norwich and St Martin Orgar French Church. The record of the latter comprise minutes, lists of members and seatholders, and financial material.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
MS 00994-1000, 01161: St Martin Orgar French Church; MS 02199: Freethinking Christians; MS 07384-85: Dutch Church.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records of the St Martin Orgar French Church were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1901, with the parish records of St Clement Eastcheap. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff. The volumes relating to the Dutch churches in Colchester and Norwich were deposited with the records of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars in 1952. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
A brief history of the French church and a transcript of the baptism registers for 1698-1762 and the marriage registers for 1698-1751 can be found in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London (Vol 37, 1935).
The volumes relating to the Dutch churches in Colchester and Norwich have been printed in Huguenot Society Publications vol.12 (1905), which includes copies of other documents relating to the Dutch community at Colchester and Norwich, and an index of names.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.