Records of the parish of St Paul, Edmonton, including baptism registers (1834-1928), marriage registers (1838-1928), banns registers (1852-1915), church service registers, papers relating to the benefice and terrier, faculties relating to the maintenance of the church, Parochial Church Council and other Committee minutes, financial accounts and parish magazines (1887-1930). Also registers for baptisms at Saint Thomas, Winchmore Hill (1908-1920).
Sans titreRecords of Christ Church Mission Church, Harlington, comprising registers of church services; correspondence relating to the construction of the new church and administrative files.
Sans titreParish magazine for the parish of Christ Church, Cockfosters, 1967.
Sans titreRecords of the Diocese of Southwark, 1742-2000. The collection relates to the area of London covered by the Diocese of Southwark south of the River Thames, dating mainly from 1905. It provides a wealth of information on church architecture and fixtures, sources for marriages and clergy (of particular use for family history), and the morals and conduct of clergy and their parishioners. Some records date from when parishes were under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Winchester (before 1877) and the Diocese of Rochester (1877-1904).
The records of Southwark Diocesan Regsistry include the following: grants of faculties relating to church buildings and fittings with a large number of coloured drawings and plans of churches, monuments, stained glass designs and other fittings (1905-2000); consecration and dedication papers including petitions and plans relating to new churches and burial grounds (1905-1976); ordinations and appointments of clergy (1878-1974); records relating to marriages including lists of marriage licences granted to couples intending to marry in churches within the Diocese of Rochester and Southwark (1877-1910, 1940-1958) and marriage warrants and affidavits recording the declarations made by parties intending to marry by licence (1905-1974).
Also records relating to visitations, the process by which the bishop maintained faith and discipline and corrected clerical and lay abuses, including lists of churchwardens (1924-1956), visitation returns (1907-1956) and presentment reports submitted by churchwardens on the state of church buildings and the conduct of clergy and parishioners in the parish (1905-1974).
The collection also contains minutes and property deeds from the Rochester and Southwark Diocesan Church Trust (1817-1966) relating to the College of Saint Saviour, Saint Olave, Southwark and All Saints, North Peckham, including correspondence relating to the removal of remains from the Flemish Burial Ground, adjacent to Saint Olave in 1842 (reference DS/CT); and minutes and related papers of Rural Deaneries of Dulwich, and Newington and Southwark (1869-1990) (reference DS/DRD).
Please note that some of the collection is uncatalogued. Please ask a member of staff for information regarding the procedure to access uncatalogued records.
Sans titreRecords of the Diocese of Winchester, 1480-1936. The archive collections relate mainly to parishes in the ancient county of Surrey, now in the dioceses of Guildford and Southwark and include: the records of the Archdeaconry of Surrey which had jurisdiction over the parishes in the ancient county of Surrey excluding 13 peculiars (administrative areas outside the jurisdiction of the bishop), including Bishop's Transcripts for parishes in the archdeaconry, the issue of licences including marriage bonds and allegations and clergy's licences, registry material, church consecrations and dedications, dissenters' meeting house certificates, and terriers of church property in each parish.
Also the records of the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey, consisting of court probate material including wills; the records of the Commissary Court of Surrey, including the bishop's commissary court probate records including wills and cause papers in court proceedings; and a small collection of office papers of the Archdeaconry of Winchester relating to parishes in Hampshire.
Sans titreRecords 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?
Sans titreRecords of the New Tabernacle Congregational Church and its mission church, the Hoxton Academy Congregational Church, including register of marriages, 1899-1941; roll of members and register of attendance, 1918-1930; minute book of joint Church Meetings, 1911-1946; minute book of Management Committee of the New Tabernacle Church, 1834-1852; minute book of Deacon's Meetings, 1938-1946; minute book of Committee and Visitors of "The Hoxton Auxiliary Christian Instruction Society", 1827-1835; cash book of "Sick Man's and Friend in Need Society", 1883-1936; papers relating to property and Trustees, 1842-1904; sealed order of Charity Commission authorising sale of site of New Tabernacle Chapel, 1949; order of Charity Commission setting out scheme for administration of New Tabernacle Chapel Fund and Charity of John Homes, 1951.
Sans titreRecords of the Pavement Chapel, Hoxton, later the Southgate Road Chapel, Hackney, including minutes of Church and Committee meetings, 1845-1859; Collections, 1845-1859; Roll of members, 1845-1878; register of marriages, 1851-1878 and register of baptisms, 1845-1888.
Sans titreDocuments relating to land in Conduit Field, Clapton-London Road, Hackney, 1812-1851 and papers relating to the resignation of a trustee, 1895.
Sans titreCounterpart Lease for Land and Church buildings in Church Terrace, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras, 1849; counterpart lease for land in Congregational Church Avenue, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras, 1851; scrapbook containing notes, correspondence, membership cards, newspaper cuttings, programmes and similar, relating to the Church, Sunday School, Christian Endeavour Society, Total Abstinence Union and other Church societies, 1897-1905; Monthly Magazine, 1902-1903.
Sans titreChurch Meeting minute book, 1852-1875; minute books including Church Meetings, Deacon's Meetings and Trustee's Meetings, 1877-1924; Building Committee minute book, 1883; statement of the Church principles and practice, 1881 and handbills, tickets, programmes, and so on for Church events such as laying of foundation stone, opening of church, concerts and bazaars, 1884-1886.
Sans titreRegisters of baptisms, 1871-1974; registers of marriages, 1943-1948; register of members' attendance, 1934-1947; register of deacons' attendance, 1905-1941; registers of preaching engagements, 1896-1953; applications for fellowship, 1889-1971; Church Meeting minute books, 1707-1974; Deacons' Meeting minute books, 1877-1967; Choir Meeting minute books, 1924-1969; minute books of Trustees Meetings, General Purposes Committee, Supply Committee, Deacons Finance Committee, and Committee for Alterations and Additions, 1870-1934; Sunday School Teachers' Meeting minute books, 1932-1961; Women's Council minute books, 1917-1975; accounts, 1871-1972; deeds, 1754-1959; correspondence and related material, 1813-1975; Church magazines, 1885-1974; Church manuals, 1873-1962; printed material relating to New Court Chapel, 1792-1921 and sketches and photographs, 1872-1967.
Sans titreQuarterly Meeting minute books, 1899-1940; Executive Committee minute books, 1897-1942; Finance Committee minute books, 1890-1938; Special Finance Committee minute book, 1927-1933; Holiday Committee minute books, 1907-1948; Local Preachers' Quarterly Meetings minute books, 1925-1940; Relief Committee minute books, 1907-1950; Workers' Meetings minute books, 1927-1942; papers regarding Emerson Bainbridge House, 1909-1922; Gertrude Owen House Committee minute books, 1950-1960; Hungerford Club Council minute books, 1944-1960; Katherine House (The Sisterhood) visitors book, 1891-1923; Katherine Price Hughes Hostel Committee minute books, 1948-1954; Kingsway House Committee minute books, 1949-1958; papers of the Lumsden Trust, 1910-1926; papers of the Old Hopdene Trust, 1931-1964; financial accounts, 1891-1956; Finance Committee correspondence, 1922-1939; West London Mission letter book, 1896-1904; Quarterly schedules, 1890-1902; Circuit schedule book, 1917-1920; 2nd London District Sunday School schedules, 1925-1933; North West District Sunday School schedules, 1934-1942.
Sans titreTwo issues of The Methodist Recorder, 1895 and 1904.
Sans titreRecord relating to Cross Street Wesleyan Mission, Liverpool, 1876.
Sans titreMinutes of Sub Committee and General Committee of the Great Queen Street Circuit, 1877-1878; plan showing proposed site for Chapel and Schools at Agincourt Road, 1880?; draft proposed terms of purchase for plot of land on the north east of Agincourt Road, 1880 and correspondence concerning proposed Chapel in Agincourt Road (Gospel Oak site), 1880.
Sans titreSchedules of trust property and copies of statistical returns, 1961-1965.
Sans titreMinute book of the quarterly meetings of the Islington Circuit, First London District, 1883-1899, with enclosures including newspaper cuttings concerning the quarterly meetings, 1886 and the First London District Synod, 1898, printed notice concerning Islington Circuit Bazaar, 1880s and balance sheet of Islington Circuit Bazaar Account, 22 Sept 1897.
Sans titreRegisters of marriages for the following Methodist chapels or missions:
Albany Methodist Mission, 1954-1958
Brockley Wesleyan Chapel, 1914-1947
Brunswick Chapel Limehouse, 1900-1954
Calderwood Street Methodist Chapel (Woolwich Methodist Church from 1965), 1939-1977
Cassland Road Wesleyan Chapel, South Hackney, 1900-1940
Charlton Methodist Church, Woolwich Road, Charlton, 1919-1940
Dulwich Road Methodist Church, Herne Hill, 1950-1962
Emery Hall, Augusta Street, Poplar, 1918-1954
Green Lanes Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1906-1967
Grove Mission, Great Guildford Street, 1889-1913
Highbury Wesleyan Chapel, Drayton Park, Highbury, 1868-1929
High Street Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Hampstead, 1881-1933
Hither Green Wesleyan Chapel, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, 1913-1940
Hornsey Road Chapel, Hornsey Road, 1915-1940
Lambeth Wesleyan Chapel, Lambeth Road, 1916-1928
Liverpool Road Chapel, Liverpool Road, 1865-1953
Locksfield Wesleyan Chapel, Rodney Road, Walworth (Lockfeld Methodist Chapel, from 1939), 1926-1955
Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel, White Horse Lane, 1955-1962
Methodist Chapel, Hackney Road, 1933-1942
Methodist Chapel, Poplar, 1946-1973
Methodist Chapel, St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, 1949-1952
Methodist Chapel (Welsh), City Road, 1933-1940
Methodist Chapel, Westbridge Road, Battersea, 1960-1967
Methodist Church, Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 1940-1942
Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road, Lavender Hill, 1938-1939
Methodist Church, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 1935-1968
Methodist Church, Lynwood Road, Tooting, 1947-1967
Methodist Church, Waterloo Road, 1935-1941
Mildmay Park Chapel, Mildmay Park, 1862-1963
New Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, 1924-1943
Packington Street Methodist Chapel, 1947-1964
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chrisp Street, Bromley, 1907-1925
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, 1920-1935
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Furber Street, Hammersmith, 1916-1954
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kilburn Lane, 1921-1934
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Robert Street, Plumstead, 1900-1965
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1928-1940
Queensway Methodist Hall, Queens Road, 1902-1958
Roupell Park Wesleyan Church, West Norwood, 1907-1966
St Georges Hall and Schools, Old Kent Road, 1906-1955
St James Church, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, 1908-1966
Southwark Park Methodist Chapel, Bermondsey, 1937-1955
Sutherland Avenue Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1899-1977
The Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, Mile End Old Town, 1936-1951
United Methodist Church, High Road, Lee, 1927-1971
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Broadway, Streatham, 1889-1966
United Methodist Church, Bruce Road, Bromley, 1925-1940
United Methodist Church, Charlotte Street, Caledonian Road, 1908-1940
United Methodist Church, Fentiman Road, Lambeth, 1932-1976
United Methodist Church, Paradise Road, Clapham, 1910-1935
United Methodist Church, Pembury Grove, Lower Clapton, 1918-1941
United Methodist Church, Walham Grove, Fulham, 1911-1971
Victoria Hall, Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, 1929-1969
Victoria Wesleyan Church, Barrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, 1905- 1940
Waltham Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fulham Road, 1904-1964
Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Holborn, 1899-1933 (UNFIT for access)
Wesleyan Chapel, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, 1924-1939
Wesleyan Chapel, Caledonian Road, Islington, 1867-1915 (UNFIT for access)
Wesleyan Chapel, Camden Street, Camden Town, 1931-1938
Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Sydenham (Dartmouth Road, Sydenham from 1938), 1918-1945
Wesleyan Chapel, London Street, Greenwich (Central Hall from 1906, West Greenwich Methodist Church from 1935), 1885-1969
Wesleyan Chapel, Wauxhall Walk, 1931-1957
Wesleyan Church, Rushey Green, Catford, 1897-1967
Wesleyan Chapel, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (later St Georges Methodist Church), 1900-1981
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brockley Rise, Forest Hill (Honor Oak Park Methodist Church from 1934), 1902-1974
Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, High Street, Plumstead, 1906-1957
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Danty Street, Hackney Wick, 1909-1935
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Denbigh Road, Westbourne Grove, 1911-1940
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kitto Road, Nunhead, 1901-1972
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Cross Road, 1903-1942
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, 1922-1964
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Avenue, Blackheath, 1866-1945
Wesley Hall, Streatham, 1924-1948
William Street, Methodist Chapel, Woolwich, (Calderwood Methodist Chapel from 1939), 1900-1939
Working Lads Institute, Whitechapel Road, 1905-1906
Methodist Church, Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, 1932-1981
Kingsway Hall, Lesley House, Kingsway, 1931-1980.
Sans titreIssues of Pathfinder, the magazine of the Poplar Wesleyan Mission, Methodist Church, 1932-1939.
Sans titreCertificate of Mrs Jane Leach for £10 share in Finsbury Chapel, Finsbury Circus, 25 Dec 1826, including signature of Chapel founder and trustee Alexander Fletcher.
Sans titreRecords of the parish of Saint John, Deptford, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; preachers' books; offertory registers; church services registers; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; and papers relating to the parish school.
Sans titreHerne Hill Methodist Church, Railton Road: Sunday School Teachers' minute book, 1910-1926.
Sans titreRecords of the Highgate Circuit, Methodist Church, 1873-1979, including Quarterly Meeting minute books; reports; financial accounts; minute books of other committees including the Ministerial Invitation Committee, the Finance Committee, the General Purpose Committee and the Local Preachers' Meeting; papers of the Performing Rights Society; papers regarding the management of manses [minister's residences] on the Circuit and Circuit preaching plans and directories.
Sans titreRecords of the Holly Park Methodist Church, including register of members, 1947-1972; Leaders' Meeting minute book; Finance Committee minute book; financial accounts; Trustees' Meeting minute book; Trustees' correspondence and plans relating to rebuilding of chapel and hall; papers relating to the Choir; leaflets, newspaper cuttings and photographs regarding the opening of the rebuilt chapel.
Sans titreRecords of Kensal Rise Methodist Church, 1946-1998, relating to Church groups, organisations and societies, including minutes of Leaders, Church Council and Trustees; minutes of the Finance Committee; papers of the Sisterhood, Womens Fellowship and Monday Fellowship groups; and Sunday School Council minutes.
Sans titreRegisters of marriages for Trinity Presbyterian Church, Harrow, 1938-1975.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Southwark Park Congregational Church (Memorial of the Pilgrim Fathers), Buckenham Square, 1928-1939.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Pilgrim Church House, Southwark, 1949-1974.
Sans titreMarriage registers for New Court Congregational Church, Tollington Park, Islington, 1945-1975.
Sans titreMarriage register for Islington Presbyterian Church, City Road, 1900-1920.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Junction Road Congregational Church, Upper Holloway, 1907-1977.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Plaistow Congregational Mission Hall, Southern Road, 1947-1949.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Raleigh Memorial Chapel, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, 1927-1939.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Lavender Hill Congregational Church, Stormont Road, Battersea, 1917-1963.
Sans titreMarriage registers for West Kensington Congregational Church, 1959-1973.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Harringay Congregational Church, Allison Road, Green Lanes, 1929-1957.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Wood Green Congregational Church, Lordship Lane, 1912-1940.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Muswell Hill Presbyterian Church, Muswell Hill Road, 1945-1973.
Sans titreMarriage registers for Union Chapel, Upper Richmond Road, Putney, 1920-1944.
Sans titreMarriage registers for New Cross Congregational Church, Ludwick Road, New Cross, 1962-1968.
Sans titreRecords of Hither Green Methodist Church, 1901-1970, including minutes and other administrative papers; souvenir programmes of entertainments and events such as bazaars; correspondence addressed to Mrs H N Beecher Bryant, particularly from Doctor John Scott Lidgett, Methodist theologian and founder of the Bermondsey Settlement; and photographs of church events, clergy, members of the church and the interior and exterior of the church building.
Sans titreRecords of Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, comprising Church manuals including reports and Ministers addresses, 1883-1891; Lyndhurst Road Church news sheet, 1935 and Lyndhurst Hall report, 1954-1955.
Sans titreRecords of John Knox Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1868-1917; Deacons' Court minute books, 1860-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1877-1939 (with gaps).
Sans titreRecords of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Manor Park, East Ham, including Court of Session minute books, 1900-1972; Deacons' Court minute books, 1943-1972; Finance Committee minute books, 1900-1920; Literary Society minute book, 1901-1927; Young People's Institute minute book, 1923-1928; Communicants' roll book, 1901-1967 and register of baptisms, 1901-1944.
Sans titreRecords of Saint Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Golders Green, comprising Communicants' roll books, 1911-1941. Also a poster for the fighting fund of the Fellowship of Youth.
Sans titreCopy book for correspondence, 1906-1910 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1930-1937.
Sans titreAnnual reports, 1847-1927; Trustees minute book, 1825-1848; Literary Society minute book, 1904-1910; British Women's Temperance Association minute book, 1916-1919; Communicants' roll book, 1933-1946; Disjunction certificate book, 1937-1949; Register of baptisms, 1822-1856; Register of baptisms (including the Caledonian Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden), 1826; Register of baptisms, 1827-1840; Young Men's Association register, 1841-1911; scrap book regarding the National Scotch Church, 1823-1960 and scrap book regarding events at Regent Square, 1860-1893.
Sans titreCourt of Session minute book for Windsor Presbyterian Church, 1853-1855.
Sans titreRecords of Highfields Presbyterian Church, Sussex, including Court of Session minute book, 1895-1916; Managers' minute book, 1896-1910; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1947; Treasurer's account book, 1896-1951 and general correspondence, 1938-1950.
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