LOWER CLAPTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, DOWNS PARK ROAD, LOWER CLAPTON, HACKNEY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: LMA/4078
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: LOWER CLAPTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, DOWNS PARK ROAD, LOWER CLAPTON, HACKNEY
Date(s)	: 1930-1962
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Congregational Church of England and Wales

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Downs Park Road Church in Clapton was registered by the Presbyterian Church of England in 1872. It was situated at the corner of Cricketfield Road. Attendance in 1886 was 111 in the morning and 60 in the evening. By 1903 attendance was 114 in the morning and 143 in the morning. The church was closed but reopened as Lower Clapton Congregational church in 1936, and was later used by the New Testament Church of God.

Source: 'Hackney: Protestant Nonconformity', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 10: Hackney (1995), pp. 130-144.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Marriage registers for Lower Clapton Congregational Church, Downs Park Road, 1930-1962.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Three 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:

Hackney Archives (43 De Beauvoir Road, N1 5SQ) holds records for Lower Clapton Congregational Church, see reference D/E 233 LOW.

See also LMA/4354.

Publication note:

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