IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LMA/4293
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HITHER GREEN METHODIST CHURCH
Date(s): 1901-1970
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear meters
Name of creator(s): Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hither Green Wesleyan Methodist Church stood in the angle of Wellmeadow Road and Hither Green Lane, Lewisham. It was built in 1900 by architects Gordon, Lowther and Gunton, but was destroyed by bombing in 1940. A new church was built on Torridon Road. It is part of the Blackheath and Lewisham Methodist Circuit.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Hither Green Methodist Church, 1901-1970, including minutes and other administrative papers; souvenir programmes of entertainments and events such as bazaars; correspondence addressed to Mrs H N Beecher Bryant, particularly from Doctor John Scott Lidgett, Methodist theologian and founder of the Bermondsey Settlement; and photographs of church events, clergy, members of the church and the interior and exterior of the church building.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Administrative material has been listed first, followed by papers and correspondence, and finally the photographs. Material has been arranged chronologically where possible.
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:
Received in 2001 (B01/041)
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre (Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6LG) holds minutes, accounts, trust papers and misc records, 1897-1942, reference NC/1/HIT.
The LMA holds marriage registers, 1913-1940, reference N/M/43/13.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009