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      • UF Cathedrals
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      • UF Monasteries
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      • UF Basilique
      • UF Cathédrale
      • UF Couvent
      • UF Monastère
      • UF Abadía
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      • UF Catedral
      • UF Convento
      • UF Ermita
      • UF Monasterio
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      Religious buildings

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      GB 0074 P92/ALL1 · Collection · 1870-1973

      Records of the parish of All Saints, Surrey Square, Walworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of preachers; financial records; correspondence, faculties and plans relating to maintenance work on the church building, parsonage and the church hall; records of All Saints National School; map of the parish.

      Parish of All Saints, Walworth , Church of England
      GB 0074 P95/ALL1 · Collection · 1603-1942

      Records of the parish of All Saints, High Street, Wandsworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Churchwardens' accounts; plans of the church and faculties; papers relating to parish boundaries, including maps; financial records; papers of the Vestry; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; and papers of the Overseers of the Poor.

      Parish of All Saints, Wandsworth , Church of England
      GB 0074 P85/ALL3 · Collection · 1892-1980

      Records of the parish of All Saints, West Dulwich, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and church services; notices and orders of service; papers and maps relating to parish boundaries; papers relating to church income including the benefice, sequestration, and the Clergy Maintenance Fund; records of Dulwich College Chapel of Ease; financial records; papers relating to the church building and vicarage, including faculties, plans and correspondence; Churchwardens' records; and papers of parish charities.

      Parish of All Saints, West Dulwich , Church of England
      GB 0074 P79/ALS · Collection · 1881-1988

      Records of the parish of All Souls, Clapton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and church services; Parochial Church Council minutes and conveyance of land.

      Parish of All Souls, Clapton , Church of England
      GB 0074 P81/ALS · Collection · 1865-1982

      Records of the parish of All Souls, Hampstead, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage; registers of church services; papers relating to parish boundaries including plan; Parochial Church Council minutes and correspondence; offertory books; papers relating to the benefice including terrier and sequestration orders; papers relating to the maintenance of the church and church room, including correspondence, inventories and plans; papers relating to the parish school.

      Parish of All Souls, Hampstead , Church of England
      GB 0074 DRO/089 · Collection · 1875-1979

      Records of All Souls, Harlesden, including registers of baptism, marriage, banns of marriage and church services; financial accounts; Vestry minutes and Parochial Church Council minutes.

      Records of Saint Luke's Church, Willesden Junction, comprising Vestry minutes and registers of church services.

      Parish of All Souls, Harlesden , Church of England
      GB 0074 P89/ALS · Collection · 1812-1990

      Records of the parish of All Souls, Langham Place, including registers of baptisms and marriages; preachers' books; financial accounts; plans, sketches and designs relating to changes to the church building; annual reports; parish magazines; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; orders of service; booklets; photographs; papers relating to the organ including music; papers relating to church social activities; and historical notes.

      Parish of All Souls, Langham Place , Church of England
      GB 0074 P92/ALS · Collection · 1869-1956

      Records of the parish of All Souls, Grosvenor Park, Newington, including registers of baptisms and marriages; church services registers; and Parochial Church Council minutes.

      Parish of All Souls, Newington , Church of England
      GB 0074 DRO/169 · Collection · 1867-2000

      Records of the parish of All Souls, St Margaret's-on-Thames, Twickenham. This collection includes parish registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmations (1898-1986); registers of services and orders of service (1896-1995); duplicate returns of parish statistics (1907-1931); correspondence relating to staff (1959-1994) and parish boundaries (1967-1981); documents, drawings and photographs relating to the church building and its contents (1867-1994); documents and plans relating to church halls (1930-1993); bishop's visitation papers (1966-1969), Parochial Church Council and Vestry minute books and correspondence (1888-2000); financial statements, account books and ledgers (1886-1999); records relating to Wooldridge Legacy Trust (1957-1984) and Sick and Poor Fund (1911-1927) and parish magazines (1898-1971).

      Parish of All Souls, St Margaret's-on-Thames, Twickenham , Church of England
      N/C/66 · Collection · 1883-1899

      Minutes of Committee of Beckenham Road Chapel/Branch Church, 1883-1887; bills for entertainment expenses, 1887; minutes of "Saturday Nights for the People" Committee, 1888-1899; minutes of Anerley Congregational Church Guild Committee, 1891-1894.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      ANGEL ALLEY CHAPEL
      N/M/015-1 · Collection · 1836-1897

      Minutes of the Trustees, 1862-1897 and minutes of the Sunday School Committee and Teachers, 1836-1856.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      ANGLICAN CHURCH IN FINLAND
      GB 0074 CLC/321 · Collection · 1920-1981

      Records of the Anglican Chaplaincy in Finland, comprising:
      minutes, 1922-67 (Ms 20884);
      papers of the chairman and/or secretary, 1941-70 (Ms 20885);
      financial records, 1949-67 (Ms 20886-7);
      annual reports, 1923-52 (Ms 20888);
      newsletters and other circulars, 1952-80 (Ms 20889);
      registers of services, 1920-73 (Ms 20890);
      roll of membership, [1900?]-1956 (Ms 20891);
      registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials and cremations, 1920-61 (Ms 20892-2A);
      papers relating to marriages, 1965-72 (Ms 20892B);
      architect's drawings of proposed new church, 1928 (Ms 20893); and
      correspondence and related papers, 1937-81 (Ms 20894-900).

      Finland Anglican Chaplaincy
      ANGLO-JEWISH EDUCATION
      GB 0074 ACC/2712/AJE · Collection · 1861-1995

      Records of the United Synagogue's own Board of Jewish Religious Education, as well as the London Board of Jewish Religious Education and its predecessor the Jewish Religious Education Board, and other bodies such as the Union of Hebrew and Religious Classes, the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge, the Jewish Memorial Council, the Central Council for Jewish Religious Education and the Jewish Voluntary Schools Association. Also records of individual schools and institutions such as the Jews Free School, Jewish Infant Schools, Westminster Jews Free School, Ilford Jewish Primary School and Michael Sobell Sinai School. The records themselves include minutes, correspondence, reports, annual reports, financial records, registers of bar mitzvah tests, printed material such as publicity, brochures, prospectuses, journals and press cuttings, and the papers of Governing bodies.

      PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

      United Synagogue , Board of Jewish Religious Education
      P89/ANN · 1869-2016

      Records of the church of the Annunciation, Bryanston Street, Marylebone, comprising registers of baptism, marriage and banns of marriage, service registers and parish magazines.

      Church of the Annunciation , Bryanstone Street, Marylebone
      Arabic mss'
      GB 1538 S98 · [17th century]

      A number of manuscripts in Farsi bound into a single volume, including a calendar; a circular calendar or almanac; a reproduction of the zodiacal man showing the sites of injuries and disease and indicating the most favourable sites for application and treatment; a diagram of the seven planetary circles and a number of sonnets. There is an inscription in French on the inside cover indicating that the manuscript contains Islamic prayers for use in Mosques and a calendar of their usage.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 P95/ASC · Collection · 1884-1952

      Records of the parish of Ascension, Malwood Road, Balham Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwarden's financial accounts and other financial accounts.

      Parish of Ascension, Balham Hill , Church of England
      GB 0074 O/537 · Collection · 1956

      Records relating to the Church of the Ascension, Blackheath, comprising leaflet and photograph regarding a new stained glass window installed in 1956 and designed by Francis Spear.

      Church of England , Parish of the Ascension, Blackheath
      GB 0074 DRO/105 · Collection · 1939-1975

      Records of the parish of the Ascension, Hanger Hill, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; and minute books of the Vestry and Parochial Church Council.

      Parish of the Ascension, Hanger Hill , Church of England
      GB 0074 P97/ASC · Collection · 1899-1942

      Records of the parish of the Ascension, Timbercroft Road, Plumstead, comprising minutes of Church Council and Parochial Church Council meetings.

      Parish of Ascension, Plumstead , Church of England
      BALHAM WESLEYAN CHURCH
      O/253 · Collection · 1901

      First issue of Balham Wesleyan Methodist Church Welcome Magazine, December 1901.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      LMA/4153 · Collection · 1950-1971

      Marriage registers for Ballards Lane Presbyterian Church, Finchley Central, 1950-1971.

      Presbyterian Church of England
      BAPTIST CHURCHES
      ACC/2824 · Collection · 1966-1987

      Marriage registers for the following Baptist churches: Broadway Baptist Church, High Street, Hounslow, 1929-1971; Baptist Free Church, Newton Avenue, Acton (known as the South Acton Baptist Church from 1960), 1946-1976; Grange Park Baptist Church, Lansbury Drive, Hayes, 1966-1987; Baptist Chapel, Bridge Street, Staines, 1978 and Baptist Chapel, North Road, Old Brentford, 1981.

      Baptist Union of Great Britain x General Baptists x Particular Baptists
      GB 0347 D146 · Collection · 1909-1973

      Marriage Registers for Tooting Junction Baptist Church, the Baptist Tabernacle, Battersea Park Road, the Baptist Church, Mitcham Lane and the Battersea Chapel, York Road.

      Please contact the Archive for further information.
      O/525 · Collection · 1867

      Parchment found under the memorial stone of Barbican Congregational Church, Hoxton, listing the name of the minister, deacons, New Building Committee, architects and builders, 1867.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      N/M/042 · Collection · 1811-1965

      Records of the Barking Road Methodist Society, Canning Town, and related churches, 1811-1965: Brunswick Methodist Chapel, Limehouse; Saint George's East Chapel, Cable Street, Poplar; Caledonian Road Chapel; Camden Town; Deptford Circuit; First West London and Second London Circuits; Forest Hill Chapel; Grove Wesleyan Mission; Islington Circuit; Seamen's Mission Circuit; Spitalfields Chapel and Walworth Chapel.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      BARKING SYNAGOGUE
      GB 0074 ACC/2712/BKS · Collection · 1947-1948

      Records of Barking Synagogue, consisting of an account book.

      PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

      Barking Synagogue
      BARNES
      GB 0074 Q/BRN · Collection · 1870-1936

      Records relating to various London churches, including mortgage and plans for Saint Philip, Clerkenwell; plans of Saint Mary, Greenwich; sales particulars and plans for Holy Trinity, Grays Inn Road, Saint Pancras; and sales particulars and plans for Saint Mary, Charing Cross Road, Westminster.

      Various.
      LMA/4350 · Collection · 1912-1925

      Records of Ipswich Presbyterian Church comprising Sunday service sheets; correspondence; marriages, 1912-1925; and deaths and funerals, 1912-1924.

      Presbyterian Church of England
      ACC/1388-25 · Collection · 1960-1971

      Registers of marriages, Bath Road Methodist Church, 1960-1971.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      BAYSWATER SYNAGOGUE
      GB 0074 ACC/2712/BWS · Collection · 1850-1984

      Records of the Bayswater Synagogue, consisting of administrative files, financial records, reports, photographs, correspondence, a history of the synagogue and membership records including registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and chalitzah undertakings.

      PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

      Bayswater Synagogue
      N/C/63 · Collection · 1877-1978

      Church Books containing various entries including history of chapel, minutes of Church Meetings, roll of members, marriages and baptisms, 1878-1934; membership rolls, 1902-1949; Deacon's Meeting minute books, 1878-1952; minutes of the Building Committee, 1884-1889; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1896-1916; Church Meeting minutes, 1934-1954; Missionary Committee minutes, 1911-1965; general correspondence, 1902-1912; financial accounts, 1877-1914; annual reports, 1879-1910; printed items including notices, hymn sheets, appeals, handbills, programmes, brochures and histories, 1877-1998; newspaper cuttings, 1906-1928; The Outlook monthly magazine, 1930-1954; papers regarding the Church centenary, 1978 and photographs of ministers, staff and the interior and exterior of the Church, 1877-1930.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      N/C/16 · Collection · 1888-1905

      Records of Bedford Congregational Chapel, Camden, including minutes of meetings of Deacons and Finance Committee, 1888-1896; Church Meetings minutes, 1892-1905 and Deacon's Court minute book, 1896-1905.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      BELMONT SYNAGOGUE
      GB 0074 LMA/4280 · Collection · 1954-2002

      Records of the Belmont Synagogue, covering the whole range of activities undertaken by the Synagogue. In particular, the administration is well represented with minutes, agendas and correspondence from all the main committees; the Council of Management, Membership, Building Fund, Ladies Guild, Parents Association, Education and Social Activity Group.

      Information on the religious life can be gleaned from files on Rabbi selection, Bat Chayil Ceremony, Yom Naroim and the Sefer Torah as well as from the substantial photographic collection which also presents a good picture of the social side of the community.

      PLEASE NOTE that written permission from the depositors is required to access this collection.

      Belmont Synagogue
      BIRKBECK CHAPEL, HIGHGATE
      N/M/003 · Collection · 1857-1859

      Trustees minute book, 1857-1859.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      N/C/70 · Collection · 1858-1954

      Records of Blackheath Congregational Church including deeds, 1858-1872; certificate authorizing solemnization of marriages at the church, 1855; Church meeting minute books, 1853-1969; register of baptisms, 1949-1969; Deacons' meeting minute books, 1869-1970; Sunday School teachers' meeting minute books, 1907-1935; correspondence and papers concerning pastors, 1874-1896; Church membership roll, 1967; account book, 1872-1887 and material relating to church property, 1886-1954.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      GB 0074 LMA/4420 · Collection · 2000-2001

      Record of church furnishings for the church of Saint Margaret, Lee. The record covers memorials, metalwork, stonework, woodwork, textiles, paintings, library records, windows and tiling, clocks, musical instruments and lighting. It also includes a list of records (baptisms, marriages and burials) deposited at Lewisham Local History Library.

      Blackheath Decorative and Fine Arts Societies , Blackheath Group of Church Recorders
      BOROUGH SYNAGOGUE
      GB 0074 ACC/2712/BRS · Collection · 1865-1960

      Records of Borough Synagogue, consisting of registers of kethubot [marriage contracts], lists of seat holders, chalitza book, financial accounts, and minute books including Burial Society minute book.

      PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

      Borough Synagogue
      LMA/4414 · Collection · 1881-1985

      Records of Boscombe Congregational Church, Bournemouth, Dorset, including Year book and accounts, 1881-1938 (some gaps); Visitors book, 1978-1985; Congregational magazine, 1904 and 1907; Congregation Monthly magazine, 1900 and 1936; Boscombe Congregational Church Newsletters, 1951-1957 and 1964-1967 and scrapbook containing financial statements, posters, newsletters, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to the Church, 1887-1969.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      GB 0074 CLC/236 · Collection · [1930-1939]

      Two files of research by Charles Angell Bradford relating to the history of the church and parish of Saint Sepulchre, Holborn.

      Bradford , Charles Angell , fl 1930-1939 , historian
      N/C/34 · Collection · 1693-1955

      Records of Boston Road Presbyterian Church, Albany Congregational Chapel and the Brentford Congregational Church, Boston Road; including volume containing baptisms, burials, membership and minutes of Church Meetings, 1693-1867; volume containing documents regarding finance, purchase of chapel site and construction of chapel and minutes of meetings, 1731-1840; minutes of deacon's meetings, 1883-1891; volume containing minutes of various Church meetings, membership rolls and correspondence, 1925-1941; volume from Albany Chapel containing history of chapel, minutes of Church meetings, baptisms and collections, 1853-1875; documents relating to property, 1709-1825; and papers concerning the reopening of the Church after damage by enemy action, 1954-1955.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      BRENTFORD METHODIST CHURCH
      ACC/1388-10 · Collection · 1934-1960

      Registers of marriages, 1934-1960.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      BRIXTON SYNAGOGUE
      GB 0074 ACC/2712/BXS · Collection · 1914-1942

      Records of the Brixton Synagogue, consisting of financial records, photographs and a kethuba [marriage contract] register.

      PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

      Brixton Synagogue
      N/C/68 · Collection · 1950-1967

      Records of Brondesbury Park Congregational Church, Wrentham Avenue, Brondesbury (formerly Craven Hill Chapel, Lancaster Gate, Bayswater), including composite register containing baptisms, 1950-1971 and marriages, 1950-1970; Church Meeting minute book, 1861-1915 and 1952-1959; Church Meeting minutes and elections of deacons, 1914-1933; Deacons' Meeting minute books, 1935-1967.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      BRONDESBURY SYNAGOGUE
      GB 0074 ACC/2712/BBS · Collection · 1905-2005

      Records of the Brondesbury Park Synagogue and its predecessor synagogues, including:

      Brondesbury Synagogue (Chevening Road), 1904-1974;

      Harlesden Hebrew Congregation / Willesden District Synagogue (College Road), 1933-1939;

      Willesden Green Federation Synagogue (Heathfield Park / Brondesbury Park), 1934-1939;

      Willesden Synagogue (Brondesbury Park), 1939-1974;

      Willesden and Brondesbury Synagogue (Brondesbury Park),1974-2000;

      Brondesbury Synagogue (Brondesbury Park), 2000-2007.

      Please note the dates refer to the time the Synagogue had that name.

      The records include registers of kethubot [marriage contracts]; membership contributions ledgers; membership lists; membership application forms; barmitzvah application forms; Board of Management minute books; Aid Committee minutes; elections for Synagogue officers; Burial Society papers; yahrzeit books; papers relating to high holydays; general correspondence; papers relating to the diamond jubilee of the Synagogue; booklet History of the Willesden and Brondesbury Synagogue, 1934-1994 by Rabbi Bernard Susser; historical research; financial records including account books; printed items such as orders of service, newsletters, tributes and event ephemera; exhibition boards prepared for a display; design for a committee room; drawing of the Chief Rabbi attending the Diamond Jubilee service; and certificates.

      PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

      Brondesbury Synagogue
      N/C/24 · Collection · 1883-1900

      Records of the Brunswick Chapel, Stepney comprising correspondence relating to leases of Nos. 192, 194 Whitechapel Road and negotiations with London School Board concerning adaptation of Brunswick Chapel premises as special school, 1899-1900.

      Records of Sion Chapel, Stepney, comprising minute book of Trustees of Sion Chapel, 1883-1892.

      Congregational Church of England and Wales
      N/M/004 · Collection · 1825-1922

      Deeds relating to the Chapel, 1825-1906; Trustees minute book, 1863-1922 and Treasurer's account book, 1905-1922.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      N/M/042-1 · Collection · 1819-1965

      Register of baptisms of Brunswick Chapel, Limehouse, 1909- 1954; baptism certificate stubs, 1947-1963; register of names in Brunswick Chapel burial ground and vaults, 1831-1853; minute book of trustees' meetings, 1847-1965; minute book of meetings of the trustees of Mitre Schools, 1878-1933; booklet of the Limehouse Wesleyan Sunday School of the Seamen's Mission at Brunswick Chapel, 1913; minute book of meetings of the Wesley Guild Executive, 1922-1940; Collection book of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, Limehouse based at Brunswick Chapel, 1891-1913; schedule of deeds and documents relating to Limehouse Chapel, 1723-1899, compiled 1899; general correspondence, 1901-1902 and 1940; agreement regarding the improvement and alteration of the Mitre Schools, 1819; Memorandum of Choice and Appointment of new Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School and Trust Property at Mitre Buildings, Limehouse, 1899 and 1911; Fire Insurance Policy of the Wesleyan Methodist Trust Assurance Company Limited, 1884; Conveyance in Trust for vacant ground lying on south side of and near to the Works of the Blackwall Railway Company in street leading from Church Lane to Three Colt Street called Mitre Buildings, Limehouse, 1842; schedule of deeds and other documents relating to Brunswick Chapel and the Mitre Schools, Limehouse, 1934.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church