Collection LMA/4115 - BARKING CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UPNEY LANE, BARKING

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Reference code

LMA/4115

Title

BARKING CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UPNEY LANE, BARKING

Date(s)

  • 1965-1973 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

0.1 linear metres

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Name of creator

Biographical history

In 1782 George Gold, minister of the Brickfields Congregational church in West Ham, began to hold services in a hired house at Barking. A church was formally constituted in 1785, and a meeting-house erected in the Broadway. In 1829 the congregation was estimated at 350-400. The church, which had been enlarged in 1805, was rebuilt in 1824-1826, during the pastorate of George Corney. Joseph Smedmore promoted the erection of a new and larger building, opened in 1864, and the addition of new schoolrooms in 1877. After the First World War, when many residents in the older part of Barking were moving into the new houses north of the railway, the church sold its building in the Broadway, and in 1929 erected a new one in Upney Lane. The church joined the United Reformed Church in 1973.

Source: A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (1966), pp. 231-233.

Archival history

LMA/4115 1965-1973 Collection 0.1 linear metres Congregational Church of England and Wales

In 1782 George Gold, minister of the Brickfields Congregational church in West Ham, began to hold services in a hired house at Barking. A church was formally constituted in 1785, and a meeting-house erected in the Broadway. In 1829 the congregation was estimated at 350-400. The church, which had been enlarged in 1805, was rebuilt in 1824-1826, during the pastorate of George Corney. Joseph Smedmore promoted the erection of a new and larger building, opened in 1864, and the addition of new schoolrooms in 1877. After the First World War, when many residents in the older part of Barking were moving into the new houses north of the railway, the church sold its building in the Broadway, and in 1929 erected a new one in Upney Lane. The church joined the United Reformed Church in 1973.

Source: A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (1966), pp. 231-233.

Received in 1998 (B98/202).

Marriage registers for Barking Congregational Church, Upney Lane, 1965-1973.

Two volumes.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright: Depositor
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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. January to March 2009 Protestant nonconformists Congregationalists Religious groups Christians Protestants Nonconformists Religions Ancient religions Christianity Protestantism Protestant nonconformity Barking Congregational Church , Upney Lane Congregationalism Primary documents Church records and registers UK England London Barking and Dagenham Barking Information sources Documents Parish records Marriage registers Western Europe Europe Legal documents Nonconformity

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Received in 1998 (B98/202).

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Marriage registers for Barking Congregational Church, Upney Lane, 1965-1973.

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Accruals

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Two volumes.

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These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

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Copyright: Depositor

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

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London Metropolitan Archives

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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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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