IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LMA/4361
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: EMPEROR'S GATE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SOUTH KENSINGTON
Date(s): 1873-1930
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.5 linear meters
Name of creator(s): Presbyterian Church of England
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
South Kensington Presbyterian Church was founded in 1872, while the Belgrave Presbyterian Church was founded in 1846. In 1922 they merged to form the Emperor's Gate Presbyterian Church. In 1930 the church united with Saint John's Presbyterian Church on Scarsdale Villas which had been founded in 1862.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Emperor's Gate Presbyterian Church and its predecessors South Kensington Presbyterian Church and Belgrave Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1890-1930; Managers minute books, 1887-1930; Communicants' roll books, 1873-1887 and 1900-1928; Communicants' roll book for Belgrave Presbyterian Church, 1912-1922 (members' names were transferred to the new roll book for Emperor's Gate on June 1st 1922); register of baptisms, 1873-1886 and 1922-1930 and Baptismal certificates, 1890-1922.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
This collection consists of records relating to meetings LMA/4361/A, and registers LMA/4361/B.
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 by the United Reformed Church (URC) History Society in 2001 (B01/024).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
For Saint John's Presbyterian Church see LMA/4148
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009