IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/187
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BARTHOLOMEW CALVINIST CHAPEL
Date(s): 1806-1809
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s): Bartholomew Calvinist Chapel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A small independent chapel had been on the site in Bartholomew Close, next to the church of St Bartholomew the Great, since the reign of Charles II, situated in part of a building called Middlesex House, initially as a Presbyterian congregation. This was dissolved in 1753. It was subsequently used by the Methodists, its earlier ministers being Calvinist. John Wesley preached here in 1763.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute book of the Bartholomew Calvinist Chapel.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This volume was deposited with the parish records of St Bartholomew the Great in 1947. It was catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
For an outline history of the chapel, see Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches...in London..., London 1808, vol.iii, pp.369-388.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.