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Trusts and Trustees document for Basing Place School, 1890s and Trusts and Trustees document for Hoxton Academy Chapel Sunday School, 1890s.

Records, 1764-1977, of Council for World Mission predecessor bodies, including records of the London Missionary Society, 1764-1966, the Commonwealth Missionary Society, 1836-1966, and some records of the Congregational Council for World Mission from 1966.

Leases and mortgage for Lansdowne House, Court Road, Eltham, 1898-1899.

Register of baptisms, 1859-1909 and register of marriages, 1900-1906.

Marriage registers for Cricklewood Congregational Church, Chichele Road, 1910-1976.

Marriage registers for Cricklewood Presbyterian Church, Rondu Road, 1927-1940.

Records of Cricklewood Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1898-1945; Deacons' Court minute books, 1894-1945; Missionary Association minute book, 1924-1944; annual reports, 1899-1902; Communicants' roll book, 1898-1943; register of baptisms, 1899-1934 and Sunday School attendance register, 1938-1939.

"Order of religious services to be held in the Cross Street Mission Room, in connection with Cranmer Wesleyan Society, 1876-1877" and "Cross Street Wesleyan Sunday School plan of teachers etc, 1876". Presentation copy printed on silk and bound in leather. Also lists visitors, mission workers, officers and tract distributors. Presented to the Reverend Alexander McAulay, 9 November 1876.

Marriage registers for Crossway Central Mission Church, Southwark, 1909-1969.

Registers of marriages for Crouch Hill Presbyterian Church, Holly Park, 1877-1960.

Records relating to the Custom House Methodist Church, Frederick Street, comprising correspondence concerning repairs and renovations and a loan from the White Loan Fund, 1931-1932; list of rules of the Men's Club, 1931, and an invitation to the first meeting, 9 Jan 1931; and memorandum of appointment of new trustees for the Custom House Church and premises, 3 Sept 1931.

Records of the Denbigh Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, comprising Poor's Stewards' or Poor Fund account book, 1903-1935; 47th Kensington Group Rover Troop minute book, 1930-1931; Rovers Round Table Conference minute book, 1935-1939; Rovers Round Table Conference attendance/signatures book, 1935-1939 and Bayswater circuit plan, 1951.

Minute book of the quarterly meetings of the Deptford Circuit, 1811-1838; volume of names and accounts of collections in the Deptford Circuit, 1812-1835, with enclosed section, elevation and plan of a chapel [Woolwich], 1835, and collection book for Mary Ann's Chapel, Deptford, 1847-1873.

Conveyance for Numbers 42 and 43, The Broadway, Deptford, 1896.

Marriage registers for Deptford Congregational Church, Deptford High Street, 1914-1967.

Papers of the Devonshire Square (Particular) Baptist Church and predecessor church the Turners' Hall meeting. The records comprise memoranda and constitutional documents, minutes, records of membership and attendance, and financial material. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

The collection consists of records relating to the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church and other German Churches in London, 1852-1998: Saint Georg (Alie Street, London E1), Saint Paul (Goulston Street, London E1), Camberwell Church (Denmark Hill SE5), Saint Marien (Sandwich Street, WC1) and Brighton Church. The greater part of the collection originated from Pastor Dr Julius Rieger (reponsible for the parish 1945-1953) and Pastor Wallman who assisted Rieger from 1951. The records also include the archives of the Camberwell Church which closed in 1914.

The collection includes papers relating to Church Constitution and meetings; Council correspondence; relations with the church in Germany; pastoral correspondence; Parish history and statistics; papers relating to staff including Pastors and Curates; registers of baptisms, confirmations, weddings and burials, 1876-1977; records of services held; hymn books, prayer books and sermons; records of different Church organisations and societies; newsletters; correspondence with German prisoners-of-war, correspondence regarding the organisation of aid for prisoners of war and prisoner of war camp newspapers and newsletters, Second World War; correspondence regarding the organisation of aid for refugees, Second World War; correspondence regarding aid for post-Second World War Germany; papers regarding the welfare of German immigrants in Great Britain; financial and legal papers relating to property; papers relating to Church buildings and Vicarage buildings.

Papers relating to other German congregations including registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths for the Camberwell Church, 1854-1914; administrative papers of the Camberwell Church; papers relating to other German churches both in London and Great Britain; papers relating to work with other Lutheran churches and the Union of Lutheran churches; reports, conference papers and correspondence from the German-speaking Evangelical Synod in Great Britain; correspondence and other papers from the Geistlicher Rat (Lutheran Council); papers regarding relations with other churches and copies of the Inter-congregational newsletter.

Publications including pamphlets, newsletters, booklets and press cuttings; photographs of Pastors, church members and church buildings.

Records of Digby Stuart College, comprising: Minutes of Governors' Meetings, 1874-1953; Student registers, 1874-1938; staff registers, 1886-1956; College Journal, 1911-1939, 1960-1968; Studies Journal, 1904-1968; papers relating to teaching practice and school visits, 1924-1953; papers relating to examinations, [1874-1939], including schedules and results; Inspectors' reports, 1874-1909; papers relating to the University of London Delegacy, 1932-1949, including the McNair Report, 1944; papers relating to the Missionary Sisters Course, 1931-1940, including the setting up and the running of the course, the syllabus, brochures, lecture material and a register of students; Warden's Book (West Hill), 1954-1967; papers relating to the Old Students' Association (later the Digby Stuart Association), 1874-1973, notably registers of old students, 1874-1957; rules and lists, 1874-1935; minutes, 1966-1975; material relating to Decade Lunches, 1956, 1969-1974; secretaries book, 1874-1961; newsletters, 1946-1954, 1970-1995; copies of St Charles' Chronicle, 1922-1945; copies of The Chronicle, 1920-1969; reports, 1946-1954; material relating to student activities, including copies of Prism, 1962-1966, Fleet, 1963, and Those Days, [1984]; papers relating to the Student Union, notably handbooks, 1972-1988; and press cuttings concerning student activity, [1980s-1990s]; papers relating to the College Centenary, 1974, including liturgies, committee papers, correspondence and press cuttings; scrapbook containing photographs and memorabilia, 1935-1946; material concerning conferences and meetings, 1982-1990s; material relating to buildings, notably Shaw House and the Jubilee Wing, [1994-1996]; papers relating to the College Chaplaincy, 1970-2000; material on the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, 1973-2001, including annual reports, 1980-1994, press cuttings, 1974-1999, trust deeds, 1977-1978, and prospectuses, 1975-1995; papers relating to the constituent colleges pre and post RIHE, [1970-2001].
There are also working papers of several principals of Digby Stuart College namely:
Papers of Sister Mary Kathleen Richardson (Principal 1948-1969), comprising papers on subjects including three year training, the Robbins Report, the Committee of Principals of Roman Catholic Colleges, the University of London visitations, and the Association of Catholic Teacher-College Students (ACTS); as well as Academic Board minutes, 1956-1967, and documents on the governance and maintenance of the College.
Papers of Sister Dorothy Bell (Principal 1969-1989), including papers of the Committee of Principals of Roman Catholic Colleges; minutes and papers of the Academic Board and Academic Council, 1968-1988; correspondence on the governance of the College and the site, 1968-1982; papers relating to the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, 1975-1987; College staff lists, [1966-1987]; lists of student numbers, 1968-1974, student nuns, 1969-1983, and exam results, 1969-1988; Annual Reports, 1971-1977; papers relating to involvement in Provincial matters, 1968-1973; papers of College Governors meetings, 1971-1989; papers of the Senate, 1975-1984; papers of the RIHE Council, 1975-1986; minutes and papers of various College committees, 1976-1989.
Papers of Sister Bernadette Porter (Principal 1989-1999), comprising papers of the Committee of Principals of Roman Catholic Colleges, 1990-1992 and the Council of Church and Associated Colleges, 1988-1992; papers of the Senate, 1989-1992; papers of the Committee of Principals, 1990-1991 and the RIHE Collegiate Committee, 1990-1996; minutes and papers of various College committees, 1990-1993; papers of the RIHE Council, 1989-1999; and papers of College Governors meetings, 1989-1998.

The College records are only a part of the English Provincial Archive of the Society of the Sacred Heart, which contains a large collection of archival material relating to convents, colleges and training schools founded by the Society. These records include papers of Cannington Priory Church and Convent, [1843-1975]; the convent at Roscrea, Ireland, [1842-1884], the first foundation in the British Isles; the convent at Woldingham, Roehampton, [1842-1992], including material relating to Woldingham School; the convent at West Hill, Wandsworth, 1874-1975, including papers relating to attached schools; the convent in St Charles' Square, 1905-1946, and Roehampton, 1946-1992, including papers relating to attached schools, [1906-1994]; the convent at Hammersmith, [1672-1994], including papers of the attached schools; the convents at Blackheath and Goodrington, [1903-1975], and Leamington, [1913]; the convent at Bonchurch, [1904-1975]; the convent at Tunbridge Wells, [1915-1973], with material relating to the training school; the convent at Oxford, [1902-1972]; the convent at Fenham, Newcastle, [1828-1998], including a history of the site and material concerning the attached schools and St Mary's Training College; and papers relating to small communities at Gateshead, Burnham, Bexhill, Blyth and Southall, [1984-2000]. The Provincial Archive also holds the papers of AMASC (World Association of the Alumnae of the Sacred Heart), NASHE (National Association of the Sacred Heart, England and Wales) and associated groups, 1957-1995.

There is a large collection of photographs relating to all of the above, as well as historical material relating to the Roehampton area, [1724-1995], mainly relating to buildings owned and including plans, deeds, and specifications relating to 'Roehampton House' (now Queen Mary's Hospital) and 'Parkstead' (now Manresa House); historical material relating to Wimbledon and Putney.

Records relating to the Driffield Road Methodist Church, Bow, comprising application to the District Building committee to sanction the appointment of new trustees for the Chapel and school room at Driffield Road, 1933; lists of trustees for Methodist churches in the area including Charles Street Plaistow, 1883, Chrisp Street, 1913, Benledi Street, 1892, Mary Street, 1894, Smeed Road, 1915, Glengall Road, 1924 and London Fields 1901; and correspondence concerning the sale of Driffield Road property to the London Diocesan Fund on behalf of St. Paul (CE) Church, Old Ford, 1933.

Registers of marriages, 1912-1958.

Registers of marriages, 1900-1972.

Records of Earlsfield Congregational Church, 1877-1970, including Church Meeting minute books; Deacons' Meeting minute books; Sunday School minutes; financial statements; Church magazines and the financial accounts of the 9th Wandsworth Girl Guide Company.

Registers of marriages, 1918-1951.

Mortgage, 1878, for land in Dulwich Grove and Melbourne Grove, East Dulwich, Camberwell, and lease, 1900, for 41 Red Post Hill, Dulwich.

Records of East End Mission [formerly the Wesleyan Mission East] including Quarterly minutes, 1886-1980; Executive Committee minutes, 1938-1973; Finance Committee minutes 1957-1961; General Purposes Committee minutes, 1960-1971; Combined Trustees' minutes, 1942-1966; Christian Service Centre Committee minutes. 1961-1964, Centenary Committee minutes, 1984-1986; Sunday School Council minutes, 1917 - 1943; Slate Club General Committee minutes, 1903 - 1916; issues of 'The East End Magazine' 1894 - 1904; issues of 'The East End Star', monthly newsletter of the London East End Mission, 1928 - 1961; issues of 'The Star', East End Mission newspaper, 1961 - 1992; issues of 'Quest and Conquest: the Journal of the East London Mission', 1928 - 1930; 'The Tuberculous Homeless Alcoholic' by Eugene W. Morse, 1978; 'Zebra Project: A Bow Mission Project. The First Ten Years', 1985; booklet '1885-1985 East End Mission - Centenary Year', 1985; file of images used to illustrate Mission publications, 193- - 194-.

Records of United Methodist Free Church Third London Circuit, including Quarterly minutes, 1868-1889; Trustees' meeting minutes, 1863-1873; Sunday School teachers' meeting minutes, 1872. Records of Bethnal Green Circuit, including Quarterly minutes, 1881-1893.

Records of Saint George's, Cable Street including register of baptisms,1839-1911; Leaders' Meeting minutes and accounts, 1839-1957; Committee minutes, 1875-1879; Lay Mission Committee minutes, 1872-1885, Young Men's Bible Class minutes. Records of Stepney Central Hall, Commercial Road (formerly 'Seamen's Chapel'), including Committee minutes, 1887-1882; Leaders' Meeting minutes, 1908-1962, 'Spitalfields Project' report, 1992. Records of Lycett Chapel, Mile End Road, including register of baptisms, 1872-1947; Leaders' Meeting minutes, 1925-1962; programmes and flyers; photographs of Chapel interior. Records of Pigott Street, Limehouse, including United Methodist Free Church Chapel Trust Committee, 1878-1915; Pigott Street Mutual Improvement Society minutes, 1883-1884. Records of Gordon Hall, Globe Road, Mile End, including register of baptisms, 1838-1958; register of marriages, 1915-1953, and Leaders' Meeting minutes, 1868-1922. Records of Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, including register of baptisms, 1934-1959; income journal, 1948-1959; expenditure journal, 1948-1949, and service of commemoration for Dr Thomas Barnardo, 1955. Records of Bethnal Green Central Hall (Approach Road), including Trust deeds and related papers; notices for opening and dedication.

Marriage registers for East Finchley Congregational Church, High Road, East Finchley, 1903-1964.

Marriage register for the East Finchley United Reformed Church, East End Road, 2 Jun 1973 - 7 Jun 1986 and the Elim Pentecostal Church, East End Road, 26 Sep 1987.

Marriage registers for East Ham Congregational Church, Wakefield Street, East Ham, 1910-1940.

Marriage registers for East Ham Presbyterian Church, East Avenue, Manor Park, East Ham, 1929-1969.

Records of the East Hill United Reformed Church, including baptism register, 1850-1853; minutes of church meetings, 1850-1854; marriage register, 1850-May 1854; minutes of Officers and Teachers Memorial Hall Sunday School, 1938 - 1939; minutes of church meetings, 1826-1948 and 1959-1969; minutes of Deacon's meetings, 1853-1981; minutes of other committees, 1853-1996; financial accounts of the London Missionary Society, 1929-1948; annual Church Manuals, 1886-1956 and 1956; minutes of Elder's meetings, 1985-2000; agendas, minutes and notes of Site Meetings regarding redevelopment, 2001-2002; financial accounts and ledgers, 1926-1997; correspondence, particularly relating to building works, 1915-2001; and Church Record newsletters, 1959-1962.

Register of marriages, 1970.

Pamphlet relating to the development of East Molesey Methodist Church, 1966.

List of subscribers, 1839-1846.

Records of Eastcote Church, comprising Centenary Souvenir handbook, 1948 and booklet concerning church finance, 1960s.

Records of the Ebenezer Chapel, King Street, Hammersmith, later the Albion Congregational Church, Dalling Road, Hammersmith, including volume, 1784-1849, containing articles and rules for faith and practice, 1784, roll of church members, 1784-1849 and register of events such as admission of new members, resignation of and invitations to pastors and so on, 1785-1819; Church book, 1881-1938, containing historical account of church covering period 1774-1938, minutes of Church Meetings, 1881-1886, roll of members, 1857-1938, register of marriages, 1881-1938, register of baptisms, 1881-1938, register of burials, 1881-1886; register of baptisms, 1875-[1880]; volume containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1923-1938, history of church covering 1774-1932 and note on the closure of the church, 1938.

Church 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.

Baptism and burial register, 1792-1826; register of burials, 1792-1793; general minute book, 1788-1901; Church meetings minute book, 1789-1907; Church book containing notes on foundation of church and membership list, 1789-1862; register of members, 1828-1959; papers of the Sunday School, 1826-1902; minute book of Church Societies, 1844-1876, including Christian Instruction Society, Congregational Chapel Temperance Society, Working Men's Temperance Society and the United Societies' Committee.

Records of the Edmonton Methodist Church, 1841-1966, including register of baptisms, papers relating to Edmonton Central Hall building work (including blueprints and printing blocks), register of membership, Junior Society class book, minutes, financial records, obituaries, pulpit notice books, circuit preaching plans and directories and tenancy agreements.

Registers of marriages, 1914-1971.

Letter from John Eliot of London to Edward Carroll via the Post Office, Worcester, 16 Jan 1819. Referring to the Meeting for Sufferings held the previous day at which the petition to the House of Commons on the subject of capital punishment was signed by the 38 members present 'and liberty was given for any that were then absent to add their names by calling at the Clerk's Office. The subscription is - Signed by us, member of a Meeting for conducting the affairs of the said Society [the Religious Society of Friends], in the intervals of the Yearly Meeting - London, the 15th of 1mo. 1819 ...'

Autograph, with signature and date stamp.

Marriage registers for Emmanuel Congregational Church, East Dulwich, 1899-1984.

Records of the Harrow Methodist Church, 1860-1879, including committee minutes, financial records, papers regarding the construction of a Sunday School, article "Early Methodism in Harrow" by Edwin Field, "Handbook of Diamond Jubilee Celebration of The Methodist Church, Bessborough Road, Harrow, 1905-1965" and list of principal dates in history of Methodism in Harrow, 1809-1972.

Also register of baptisms for Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Enfield Highway, 1860-1879.

Record of the Enfield Old Chapel [Zion Chapel?], comprising printed notice of two sermons to be preached by the Reverend John Stribling, 1834.

Memorandum book of the English Church in Siena, including agreement concerning the Protestant cemetery (1843), abstract of receipts and payments (1841-1846), correspondence and notes.

Paper by H.R. Wilton Hall on church life in Clapham, with emphasis on Evangelicalism, 1890s.

Log Book for the Girls School, 1863-1836.

This collection consists of the records of the main Fellowship of Reconciliation, England, supplemented with the records of the London Union of the FoR, the Ilford and Hornchurch branch, and the papers of Stella St John relating to her imprisonment as a consequence of her pacifist position during World War Two. The records of the main Fellowship of Reconciliation, England cover the period 1915-1962 and consist almost entirely of the minute books of the various committees and sub-groups of the organisation. Also included are albums of press cuttings and other ephemera relating to F T Haddon Bradley's conscientious objection in 1917. The records of the London Union cover the period 1916-1978 and consist of correspondence, minutes of various meetings including the annual meeting, accounts, campaign papers, policy papers, conference papers, press cuttings and reports of the London Union.

Register of marriages for Feltham United Reformed Church, 1972-1973.

Records of the Ferme Park Baptist Church, Crouch End, including copies of trust deeds, 1873-1933; minutes and papers of Chapel building committee and other committees, 1883-1900; Deacons' Meeting minutes, 1889-1970; Deacons' General Purposes Committee, 1920-1926; Church Meeting minutes, 1889-1969; Church Meeting membership records, 1889-1898; Church Meeting finance, 1924-1972; Sunday School minutes and papers, 1897-1955; Young People's Christian Union minutes and papers, 1911-1934; Social Guild minutes and papers, 1929-1959; Visiting Committee minutes, 1940-1964; Year Books, 1892-1964; magazines and Church newsletters, 1898-1973; pamphlets, press cuttings, service sheets and programmes, 1888-1946 and photographs and slides, 1890s-1973.

Minutes of Minister's House Trust, including minutes of Sutherland Gardens Minister's House Trust, 1890-1964 and Minister's House Trust account Book, 1890-1969.