FOREST GATE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SEBERT ROAD, FOREST GATE, WEST HAM

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: LMA/4079
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: FOREST GATE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SEBERT ROAD, FOREST GATE, WEST HAM
Date(s)	: 1950-1972
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.2 linear meters
Name of creator(s)	: Congregational Church of England and Wales

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Forest Gate Congregational Church had its origins in a Gospel Service conducted by Jabez Legg in a cottage at Forest Gate. These services began in 1825 and by 1832 has expanded enough that a chapel was constructed, called Forest Gate Chapel. By the 1850s the local area developed from a small semi-rural community into a suburban neighbourhood, and it was decided to construct a new church in the middle of this development, which was completed in 1856. It was also at this date that the chapel joined the Congregationalist Church. Between 1884 and 1888 extensive rebuilding works took place, with further rebuilding in the 1920's.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Marriage registers for Forest Gate Congregational Church, Sebert Road, Forest Gate, 1950-1972.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Four volumes

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: 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:

Received in 1998 (B98/202).

Allied Materials

Related material:

Newham Archive and Local Studies Library has some papers. See also LMA/4357.

Publication note:

Hitherto henceforth, 1856-1956. A short history of Forest Gate Congregational Church, Sebert Road by Charles Edward Busby, 1956. LMA library reference 54.1 BUS.

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