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CAMDEN TOWN AND CAMDEN STREET CHURCHES


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): LMA/4008/CAM

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CAMDEN TOWN AND CAMDEN STREET CHURCHES

Date(s): 1941-1954

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

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:

Wesleyan Methodists built a church at King Street, Camden Town, in 1824. In 1860 the King Street premises were sold to a Primitive Methodist congregation, and a new church was constructed at Camden Street. Following the union of Methodist churches in 1932 the congregations were united. The King Street church was renamed Plender Street Church and became the main church, while the Camden Street church became a mission hall and youth centre and were later demolished.

The Camden Street Wesleyan Methodist Church belonged to the Second London Circuit/Great Queen Street Circuit until around 1866, when it transferred to the Kentish Town Circuit. It then transferred to the London Central Mission Circuit in around 1887.

The King Street, Camden Town Primitive Methodist Church belonged to the Ninth London Circuit until around 1885, when it transferred to the Camden Town Circuit.

After the Methodist Church Union in 1932 both churches joined the Camden Town Circuit, though in practice this small circuit appears to have been administered as part of London Central Mission Circuit and was officially absorbed into the London Central Mission Circuit in 1956.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Camden Street Wesleyan Methodist Church and the King Street Primitive Methodist Church (later the Plender Street Methodist Church), including financial accounts, 1941-1947; correspondence regarding war damage, 1944-1951 and leaflets advertising mission events, 1954.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections: Membership; Administration; Trustees and Printed Items.

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 1983 (Acc/1849)

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See also: N/M/43/60/1; N/M/42/3.

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
Air raid damage | War damage | War | International conflicts
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Methodism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Methodists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Missions | Missionary work | Religious activities
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Nonconformists
Nonconformity

Personal names

Corporate names
Camden Street Wesleyan Methodist Church
King Street Primitive Methodist Church | Camden Town x Plender Street Methodist Church

Places
Camden (district) | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe