SERMON LANE MISSION

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: ACC/2877
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SERMON LANE MISSION
Date(s)	: 1875-1948
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.16 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:

The Sermon Lane Mission was founded in 1849 as the Sermon Lane Ragged School, Islington. The earliest surviving report in this accession locates the mission in Liverpool Road, Islington. By 1910 it is described as being in Mantell Street, Liverpool Road. By 1922 the Mission was known as the Sermon Lane Christian Institute and had moved to Vincent Terrace, Colebrook Row. The Institute closed in the early 1980's.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Sermon Lane Mission comprising printed annual reports, 1875-1924; programme of Sermon Lane Christian Institute Young People's Club, 1947-1948 and programme for centenary festival, 1949.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: 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:

Records donated by Miss B Finch, 10 January 1991 (Acc/2877).

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's 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