SEBERT STREET UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, FOREST GATE

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: LMA/4357
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SEBERT STREET UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, FOREST GATE
Date(s)	: 1906-1937
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.16 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:

Copy book for correspondence, 1906-1910 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1930-1937.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

2 volumes.

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 by the United Reformed Church (URC) History Society in 2001 (B01/024).

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also LMA/4079 and material held at Newham Archives and Local Studies Library.

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