ARUNDEL SQUARE CHAPEL, WESTBOURNE ROAD, BARNESBURY, ISLINGTON AND OFFORD ROAD CHAPEL

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: N/C/09
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ARUNDEL SQUARE CHAPEL, WESTBOURNE ROAD, BARNESBURY, ISLINGTON AND OFFORD ROAD CHAPEL
Date(s)	: 1868-1916
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.05 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Congregational Church of England and Wales

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Arundel Square Congregational Church had its origins in a temporary chapel in York Place (later Saint Clement Street), Barnsbury, which was founded in 1861. The Arundel Square church and schoolrooms opened in 1863 at the corner of Westbourne Road and Bride Street. Galleries were added in 1865, by 1884 the church seated 1,000 people. The Church ran a preaching station at the Great Northern Railway station on Sundays from 1884. Attendance in 1903 was 170 in the morning and 232 in the evening. The church closed in 1931. The building was used by free Baptists in 1931-1935, before sale to Saint Giles Christian mission.

Source: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 101-115.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Arundel Square Chapel, Westbourne Road, Barnsbury, Islington, including register of marriages, 1899-1916 and declaration of trust, 1868.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Register; Declaration of Trust.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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:

Deposited in 1964 (AC/64/48).

Allied Materials

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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