IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/193
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LITTLE ST HELEN'S INDEPENDENT CHURCH
Date(s): 1760-1798
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s): Little St Helen's Independent Church
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The church was formed in Little St Helens in c 1672 as a Presbyterian meeting house. The congregation was dissolved in 1790 after a serious decline, whereupon the building was used for a succession of independent churches. The last of these was dissolved in about 1795, and the buildings taken down in 1799. It was known successively as Three Cranes Church, Thames Street, and Mr Pike's Church (so called after Samuel Pike, pastor 1747-1765).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Account book for the Little St Helen's Independent Church.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This volume was presented to Guildhall Library in 1955 with the parish records of St Helen Bishopsgate. It was 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:
For an outline history of the chapel, see Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches...in London..., London 1808, vol.i, pp.363-387.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.