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Wandsworth Heritage Service

Union Church, Putney


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0347 D107

Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service

Title: Union Church, Putney

Date(s): 1859-1966

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 boxes

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Union Church, Putney was two churches, which joined in October 1900 - the Upper Richmond Road Union Church, and the Oxford Road Congregational Church. In 1972 the Church joined with the Presbyterian Church and became Putney United Reformed Church.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of church meetings of the Union Church, Putney, which was on Upper Richmond Road, and the Oxford Road Chapel before and after they joined together. There are minutes of deacons' meetings and minutes of the Finance Committee for the Union Church before the merger. The collections also includes rolls of church members for 1900-1908 and 1936-1957 and minutes of teachers' meetings for the Sunday School.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The original order had been disturbed, so the collection has been arranged by type of record: minutes of church meetings; minutes of deacons' meetings; financial material; other material.

Conditions governing access:

This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information

Finding aids:

A hard-copy catalogue is available in the Heritage Service searchroom in Battersea Library, and an online catalogue is also available.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Some items added in September 2010 as part of accession 2010-15.

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

London Metropolitan Archives hold the Union Chapel, Putney marriage register 1920-1944, ref: LMA/4163/001. LMA also hold the records of Putney United Reform Church.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Union Church, Putney

Places
Putney | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
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