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HIGHGATE CIRCUIT RECORDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): LMA/4009/HC

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HIGHGATE CIRCUIT RECORDS

Date(s): 1873-1979

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1.33 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:

Methodism was established in the Highgate and Hornsey region in the early nineteenth century. It expanded alongside housing in the area and more churches were constructed. These churches belonged to the Islington Circuit until 1873, when the Highgate Circuit was established.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Highgate Circuit, Methodist Church, 1873-1979, including Quarterly Meeting minute books; reports; financial accounts; minute books of other committees including the Ministerial Invitation Committee, the Finance Committee, the General Purpose Committee and the Local Preachers' Meeting; papers of the Performing Rights Society; papers regarding the management of manses [minister's residences] on the Circuit and Circuit preaching plans and directories.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections: Circuit Administration; Trustees and Buildings; Preaching Plans.

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 ACC/1849.

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
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church property | Property
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Methodism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Methodists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Preaching | Religious practice | Religious activities
Nonconformists
Nonconformity
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Highgate Methodist Circuit

Places
Archway | Islington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Crouch End | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Highgate | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Holloway | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hornsey | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kentish Town | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Muswell Hill | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Haringey