HORBURY CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, NOTTING HILL GATE, KENSINGTON

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: N/C/12
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: HORBURY CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PARK ROAD, NOTTING HILL GATE, KENSINGTON
Date(s)	: 1850-1920
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Congregational Church of England and Wales

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Horbury Congregational Chapel was constructed in 1848-1849 to designs by architect J Tarring, situated on the junction of Ladbroke Road and Kensington Park Road. The Chapel was an offshoot of the Congregational Church on Hornton Street. The Chapel closed in 1935 and was renamed Kensington Temple, owned first by the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and then by the Elim Pentecostal Church.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Horbury Congregational Chapel, Kensington Park Road, including correspondence relating to expenses of erection of chapel and general finances, 1850-1869; correspondence relating to a dispute between Reverend F.W. Pitt and the congregation, with subsequent intervention of the London Congregational Union, 1909-1914; further correspondence and notes relating to the dispute including a subsidiary quarrel and case between Reverend F.W. Pitt and Reverend H.A. Powell, 1915-1920; copies of 'The Bible Crusade/Quarterly Message', 1917-1919 and engraving of architect's drawing of chapel, 1860?

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Correspondence; Printed Items.

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 20 August 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