IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): N/C/09
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ARUNDEL SQUARE CHAPEL, WESTBOURNE ROAD, BARNESBURY, ISLINGTON AND OFFORD ROAD CHAPEL
Date(s): 1868-1916
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.05 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Congregational Church of England and Wales
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Arundel Square Congregational Church had its origins in a temporary chapel in York Place (later Saint Clement Street), Barnsbury, which was founded in 1861. The Arundel Square church and schoolrooms opened in 1863 at the corner of Westbourne Road and Bride Street. Galleries were added in 1865, by 1884 the church seated 1,000 people. The Church ran a preaching station at the Great Northern Railway station on Sundays from 1884. Attendance in 1903 was 170 in the morning and 232 in the evening. The church closed in 1931. The building was used by free Baptists in 1931-1935, before sale to Saint Giles Christian mission.
Source: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 101-115.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Arundel Square Chapel, Westbourne Road, Barnsbury, Islington, including register of marriages, 1899-1916 and declaration of trust, 1868.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Register; Declaration of Trust.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
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
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in 1964 (AC/64/48).
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