ARCHWAY ROAD CHURCH
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : LMA/4009/AR |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : ARCHWAY ROAD CHURCH |
Date(s) | : 1865-1932 |
Level of description | : subfonds
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Extent | : 0.66 linear metres |
Name of creator(s) | : Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
It would appear that from 1859 Wesleyans were meeting for worship at a coffee house and dining rooms in Whittington Terrace, Upper Holloway. The society acquired its own premises when in 1864 a site was purchased in St John's Road and an iron building erected upon it. This was the site later occupied by the Archway Central Hall. In 1873 a far more substantial chapel was opened on the adjacent site - on the junction of five roads opposite the Archway Tavern, since Victorian times one of the busiest traffic centres in North London. Up to that point still part of the Islington (Liverpool Road) Circuit, Archway Road Chapel became the head of the newly formed Highgate Circuit (1873), which reached out to the new suburbs rapidly growing up on the Northern Heights.
Archway was one of no less than 85 Wesleyan chapels built in 1872. In 1932 it was decided to replace the crumbling, out of date building with a large Central Hall, to be set back from the busy and noisy Great North Road. It was to be the first central hall scheme initiated after Methodist Union and the last Central Hall built in London.
Source: http://www.londonmethodist.org.uk/index.html
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Archway Road Methodist Church, including register of baptisms, 1865-1897; Leaders' Meeting minute books; financial accounts; Trustees' Meeting minute books; Trustees' correspondence and notes; papers of the Missionary Society and papers of the Sunday School.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
In sections: Registers; Administration; Trustees; Groups and Organisations.
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:
Received in 1983 (Acc/1849)
Allied Materials
Related material:
See also ACC/1849 and ACC/2172.
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
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