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BARKING CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UPNEY LANE, BARKING


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): LMA/4115

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BARKING CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UPNEY LANE, BARKING

Date(s): 1965-1973

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.1 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Congregational Church of England and Wales

CONTEXT

Administrative/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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes.

Conditions governing access:

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

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: Depositor

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1998 (B98/202).

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Legal documents
Nonconformity

Personal names

Corporate names
Barking Congregational Church | Upney Lane

Places
Barking | Essex
Barking and Dagenham