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FINSBURY CHAPEL (FLETCHERS CHAPEL), FINSBURY CIRCUS, FINSBURY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): N/C/06

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: FINSBURY CHAPEL (FLETCHERS CHAPEL), FINSBURY CIRCUS, FINSBURY

Date(s): 1824-1891

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.3 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Presbyterian Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alexander Fletcher was born in 1787 in Perthshire and became a minister in the United Presbyterian Church in 1806. He moved to London in 1811 and was soon established as a popular preacher at the Albion Chapel, London Wall. However, in 1824 he was prosecuted in the civil courts for breach of promise. Although no verdict was reached the United Associate Synod suspended Fletcher from office. He therefore established his own chapel on Grub Street, joined by the majority of his Albion Chapel congregation. The chapel susbequently moved to a large building in Finsbury Circus - at the time, the largest chapel in London. Fletcher remained at the Finsbury Chapel for 35 years. He was reconciled with the United Presbyterian Church in 1849. He died in 1860.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Finsbury Chapel including register of baptisms, 1824-1889; register of marriages solemnized in Finsbury Chapel, 1838-1864; minute book of Managers of Finsbury Chapel, 1835-1841 and 1864-1890; minutes of special meetings of members and seatholders, 1889-1891, including minutes of meetings of trustees concerning closure of chapel and disposal and copy letter of trustees to Reverend J. Vench requesting him to deliver up his keys "also any papers or documents he may have in his possession belonging to the Chapel", and photograph of exterior of chapel, [1890].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Registers; Minute Books; Photograph.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited 20 August 1964 (AC/64/48).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See also O/376.

Publication note:

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
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Nonconformist chapels | Chapels | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Legal documents
Nonconformity
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Finsbury Chapel x Finsbury Presbyterian Chapel x Fletcher's Chapel

Places
Finsbury Circus | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe