SAINT JAMES'-AT-BOWES UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WOOD GREEN

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: LMA/4353
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SAINT JAMES'-AT-BOWES UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WOOD GREEN
Date(s)	: 1871-1943
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.71 linear meters
Name of creator(s)	: Presbyterian Church of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint James's Presbyterian church, Wood Green, was formed in 1875, when the Presbyterian Church of England took over an iron chapel which had been used for four years by the Church of Scotland. There were about 100 members in 1877, when work started on a church in Green Lanes. The new building, of redbrick dressed with Bath stone, was noted for its grandeur. It seated 400 worshippers, apart from those in the galleries, but was soon extended to take 700; in 1902 it had the fourth largest congregation within the London Presbytery and in 1903 Sunday attendances were 585 and 465. In 1950 members united with Bowes Park Congregational church, whose premises they used as the United Church of Saint James-at-Bowes. The former Presbyterian church afterwards served as a warehouse.

From: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 356-364.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Saint James's Presbyterian church, Wood Green, including Court of Session minute books, 1871-1931; Managing Committee minute books, 1879-1931; Annual reports, 1892-1906 and Communicants' roll books, 1895-1943.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

This collection consist of records relating to meetings LMA/4353/A, and registers LMA/4353/B.

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:

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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