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HAMBURG LUTHERAN CHURCH


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/189

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HAMBURG LUTHERAN CHURCH

Date(s): 1688-1945

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 12 production items.

Name of creator(s): Hamburg Lutheran Church | Dalston

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

German Lutherans worshipped in the City of London at the Church in Austin Friars 'of the Germans and other Strangers' from 1550, and in 1672 they obtained from Charles II letters patent enabling them to build their own church, with the power to appoint ministers and hold services according to their own customs, on the site of the Holy Trinity Church (destroyed during the Great Fire), Trinity Lane. The inaugural service was held in December 1673, although baptisms were registered from 1669, and a church, rebuilt and extended in 1773, remained there until 1871. In that year it was bought and demolished by the Metropolitan Railway Company who were then building Mansion House station close by. The congregation then built a new church on a site in Alma (later Ritson) Road, Dalston, installing fittings such as the altar-piece and organ taken from the old church.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Hamburg Lutheran Church, including letters patent granting the right to establish the church; registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials; consistorial act books; papers relating to the construction of the new church in Dalston; and financial accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin, German, French and English.

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See ACC/2622 and CLC/024 for other records of the Hamburg Lutheran Church held at LMA. Further records are held by the National Archives and St Bartholomew's Hospital.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
German (cultural identity) | National identity | Cultural nationalism | Cultural identity
Lutherans | Nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Burial records
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Hamburg Lutheran Church | Dalston

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Dalston | Hackney | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe