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.
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