IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/186
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BAPTIST CHURCH (WHITE'S ALLEY)
Date(s): 1681-1841
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s): Baptist Church, White Alley | City of London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The church met at White's Alley, 1681-1745; Paul's Alley, Barbican, 1745-79 (shared with another Baptist church); Hogg Lane (otherwise Worship Street), Shoreditch, 1779-1829; Trinity Place, Trinity Street, Blackman Street, Borough, 1829-32; Coles Street, Dover Road, 1833-40; and Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, 1840-1.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Baptist Church, White Alley, City of London, comprising minutes of church meetings.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological order.
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:
The records were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1900 and subsequently catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The church used by this congregation 1745-79, in Paul's Alley, Barbican, was also home to another baptist church. Some transcripts of the records of Baptist Church, Paul's Alley, are held at LMA as CLC/185.
Publication note:
For an account of the early history of the church and other Baptist churches related to it (for example the church in Paul's Alley before 1745), see W Wilson, The History and Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches ...in London... (London 1808), vol.iii, pp.228-260.
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.